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Boatright drew up and secured passage of the new city charter. In 1904 Mr. Boatright was succeeded by W. W. Timmons as mayor of Tifton.
After the sale of the Tifton and Northeastern, Mr. Boatright went on June 15, 1904, to Moody, Florida to be general manager of the Natural Bridge Railroad, a short line.
Later, the Boatrights moved to Cordele, Georgia, where Mr. Boatright was for four years United States Postmaster. Also, at Cordele he practiced law. until his death there, about 1935. Mrs. Boatright also died in Cordele.
Frederick and Martha Boatright had two children, a son, Bernard Dechard Boatright, who married Mildred Ward, of Cordele, and died in 1920, in Cor- dele, where also he is buried; and a daughter, Fredericka Boatright, named for her father. She married Emmett Hines, son of the late Judge Hines and Nellie Womack Hines, musician and writer, of Milledgeville. Fredericka and her husband live at Buffalo, New York.
GEORGE WASHINGTON BOWEN
George Washington Bowen, born August 19, 1834, married Nancy A. Pope, born June. 18, 1840. They made their home in Pulaski County where were born to them four sons, E. P., I. W., Isaac Stephen, and Lee Bowen, who died unmarried.
George Washington Bowen, expecting that a railroad would be built through Brookfield, moved his family there and purchased more than four hundre1 acres of land. The railroad went through Tifton instead of Brook- field, but G. W. continued at Brookfield, where he prospered. When his sons grew up they had business interests in both Brookfield and Tifton.
George Washington Bowen died September 4, 1912. Nancy lived to cele- brate her 90th birthday with a family reunion and dinner, and she blew out the ninety candles on her cake at one whiff. She died January 21, 1933, aged 921/2 years. G. W. and Nancy are buried at Tifton cemetery.
ENOCH PIERCEL BOWEN, SR.
Enoch Piercel Bowen, son of George Washington Bowen and Nancy Pope Bowen, was born in Pulaski County, near Hawkinsville, Georgia. December 21, 1857. When nine, he moved with his parents from Pulaski to Lowndes County. Three years later he came with his parents to Brookfield.
On April 28, 1871, Enoch Bowen married Elizabeth Turner then of Lake- land, Florida, but previously of Wilcox County, Georgia, which county was named for her maternal family.
Mr. Bowen moved to Tifton in July of 1887, and in 1890 built a house at the corner of Love Avenue and Sixth Street, where the Baptist Church now is. Here his children Lennon E., Sarah, Reba, E. P. Jr., Bennie, and Sue were born. After the site of this home was sold to the Baptist Church, the Bowens lived temporarily, during 1906 and 1907, in a small house across the alley from the church, on Fourth Street. Here Elizabeth was born. In 1907 Mr. Bowen
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built the large and handsome Georgian dwelling at southwest corner of Love Avenue and Sixth Street, and here Edna was born. This continued to be the Bowen homestead so long as Mr. Bowen lived. Nancy Pope Bowen died there February 12, 1942.
Mr. Bowen was an early member of the First Baptist Church of Tifton and was a life member of its Board of Deacons. With exception of one year he was treasurer of the Tifton Masonic Lodge from its founding, about 1890, until his death.
With brief exception Mr. Bowen served as alderman of Tifton from the time of the first meeting of the board after the town's incorporation, in 1890, until the town changed its form of government. Thereafter he served as a city commissioner continuously until his death. After the death of H. H. Tift, in 1922, Mr. Bowen was made chairman of the commission and except for a short time so continued throughout the rest of his life.
Mr. Bowen was a director of the Bank of Tifton from its founding, in 1896, until his death. From 1922 until his death he was president of the Bank of Tifton. He was president of the Tifton Investment Co., from 1922 to 1934: president of the Tifton Cotton Mill from 1928 to 1934. He owned the Bowen Funeral Home and is said to have selected the site for the Tifton cemetery.
Enoch Bowen was Tift County's first representative to the Georgia Legis- lature; also he was first senator from this senatorial district.
As Uncle Enoch advanced in years he would leave the execution of the bank's business to others, but every day he would go to the bank and when he had attended to such matters as he wished to direct he would go and sit on the wide long stone that flanked the entrance to the bank and there ob- served all who passed in or out of the bank.
Mr. Bowen felt very lonely after Mrs. Bowen's death; and all his money could not suffice to keep him from feeling bereft, nor all the times he had ministered to others in the hour of bereavement prevent his feeling sorrowful when his own circle was broken. He stood the loneliness a while and then on December 31, 1942, ten days after his eighty-fifth birthday, he married a widow, Mrs. Betty Fletcher Wilcox, of Ocilla, the Reverend L. N. Hartsfield performing the ceremony at Ocilla.
June 26, 1943 was a sultry day in Tifton. The sun was blazing. Neighbors of Mr. Bowen were sitting on their porch seeking a breath of cool air. They saw Uncle Enoch working in his rose garden, hoeing at a great rate as though in a great hurry to finish.
"Uncle Enoch doesn't need to be doing that!" remarked one. "It's too hot for him to be working so hard!"
Not ten minutes later a passer-by came and said to one of the neighbors: "Do you know when a person is dead? It looks like Uncle Enoch is dead!"
Mr. Bowen had finished his work, and had sat down in the door to rest. It was his last long rest . . . Burial was in Tifton cemetery.
Children of Enoch and Nancy Pope Bowen and those whom the children married, are as follows:
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Lennon E., married Margaret Bailey. Lennon is now president of the Bank of Tifton.
Sarah Stella married Mc Isaacs.
Mary Rebecca married Robert Hall, Jr.
Enoch Piercel, Jr., married Ilene Adams.
Charles Bennie married Margaret Toney.
Susie Moore married John Fulwood.
Elizabeth married L. M. Polhill.
Edna Smith married Adrian Colquitt.
IRWIN WASHINGTON BOWEN
Irwin Washington Bowen (born Pulaski County, February, 1862; died at his home four miles north of Brookfield, December 4, 1937), son of George Washington Bowen and Nancy Pope Bowen, married Sarah Georgia Turner (born February 26, 1869: died September 20, 1940). The marriage was in March, 1888.
I. W. Bowen came to this section of the state in 1870 and continued here until his death. For several years he was in Tifton in the home now the Rackley House, but most of his boyhood and adult years were spent at Brookfield where he was a farmer and a merchant. He was for many years treasurer of the Mell Baptist Association. He was for thirty-seven years affil- iated with the Brookfield Baptist Church of which he was a charter member and where his funeral was held. He and his wife are buried in the Tifton cemetery.
Issue of this union: Piercel (deceased, aged two years); S. R., J. L., I. W .. Jr., R. C., S. T., of Tift County; Mrs. Baynard Seckinger, of Glennville: Sibbie (Mrs. Bessie Bowen Williford), born August 25, 1898: died Septem- ber 1, 1936.
Birthdate on tombstone is February 11, 1862:
Birthdate in obituary is February 12, 1862.
ISAAC STEPHEN BOWEN
Isaac Stephen Bowen, son of George Washington Bowen and Nancy Pope Bowen, was born November 16, 1870, and came when very young with his parents from Pulaski County to what is now Brookfield. At Fort Valley, May 14, 1893, he marreid Sallie Miller, of Fort Valley, daughter of Osburn H. and Mary Brice Miller, both of Fort Valley.
I. S. Bowen, W. W. Simmons and W. J. Goulding were tax assessors for City of Tifton for 1908.
Isaac Bowen died at Brookfield in 1912. Mrs. Bowen died in Tifton, March 20, 1933. Both are buried in Tifton cemetery. To them were born six daugh- ters, Willie Mae, Anne, Stella (Mrs. Earl Gibbs). Mittie (Mrs. B. J. Reeves). all of Tifton; Blanch (Mrs. J. E. Saxon), of Thomasville; Lee (Mrs. F. M. Reeves, Jr.), of Clarkesville, Georgia.
The above dates are furnished by Mr. Bowen's daughter. His obituary in
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the Gazette gives Lowndes County, near Valdosta, as birthplace and date of birth 1868; it gives date of marriage as 1892.
THE BRANCH FAMILY
Elias Branch, Senior, born in Robinson County, North Carolina, moved to Laurens County, Georgia, sometime prior to 1811; David Branch, his son, was born there. The latter, his brother, James Branch, and his sister, Nancy, moved to Irwin County about 1830. In 1832 David Branch married Millie Fletcher and settled in the place now known as Waterloo. Later he served as one of the judges of the inferior court for several years. His son, William Branch, married Jane Whiddon in 1859 and moved one mile north of Chula, where he reared a large family.
William served Irwin County in the Georgia Legislature 1880-1881. He was one of Tifton's first merchants, and he owned the first mule-power cot- ton gin in Tifton. He helped the needy, especially the orphans of the War Between the States. His wife, very charitable, administered home-made remedies to the sick and often responded to calls to the bedsides when doc- tors were not available. He enlisted in the War Between the States in 1862. In 1863 after being promoted to first sergeant, William Branch was wound- ed in Wilderness, Virginia; he was also wounded at Gettysburg, Virginia in 1865. He had three grandsons to serve in World War I and six great-grand- sons and four grandsons in World War II.
Nine children were born to the union of William and Jane Whiddon Branch: Eli, who was born in 1860; W. W. D., in 1862; Juda, in 1865; D. J., in 1867; Rachel, in 1870; Leacy, in 1872; Jehu, 1874; E. D., 1877: Millie, 1882.
Eli Branch, son of William and Jane Whiddon Branch, married Elizabeth Easters in 1881. Their children were: Martha Jane, who married H. Fletcher; W. D. Branch, who married Cora Dorminy, and Betty Paulk; Millie, Josie, Clemmie, Leachy, Rachel, who married Julian Fletcher, and Albert Branch.
W. W. D. Branch, son of William and Jane Whiddon Branch, married Nancy Young in 1881, settled in Irwin County, and served as tax collector for twelve years. His children are George W. Branch, William Branch, and Una Branch. George W. Branch, born June 10, 1885, married Maude Thompson, May 13, 1906. He represented Tift County in the Georgia Legislature in 1939-40-41-42-43-44 and Forty-Seventh Senatorial District in 1945-1946. His son, W. F. Branch, served three years in the United States Navy. W. F. Branch married Sibyl Blitch in 1936; their daughter, Sibyl Frances, was born on January 29, 1940.
William Branch married Ora Cravey in 1905 and moved to the place where he now lives. Their children are Vernon, Willie, George, Harry, Vernelle, and Dorothy.
Una Branch married Eddie Paulk in November, 1904. To this union were born Vercola, John B., Robert C., Eunice Louise, William, Eddie, and Mary.
Juda Ross, daughter of William and Jane Whiddon Branch, was born on October 8, 1865. She married J. F. Ross, December 19, 1883. Their children,
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W. A., A. L., J. O., Cora Ellen, A. A., Nora Jane, Dotie Ann, L. F., B. L., and Dollie, are good Tift County citizens with large families.
D. J. Branch, son of William and Jane Whiddon Branch, was born Novem- ber 25, 1867. He married Clemmie Taylor on December 21, 1890, moved to Turner County, and served two terms in the Georgia Legislature, 1921-1922- 1923-1924. His son, Walter Branch, now lives in Turner County and serves as senator from the Forty-Seventh Senatorial District.
Rachel E. Branch, daughter of William and Jane Branch, was born on June 29, 1870. On November 25, 1886 she married Walter Young, later settled in Worth County, and reared a large, useful family.
Leacy Branch, daughter of William and Louisa J. Branch, was born Octo- ber 2, 1872 and married in October, 1887, J. R. Paulk. They settled in Irwin County, where they reared a large, useful family of ten children.
Jehu Branch, Junior, son of William and Jane Whiddon Branch, married Maggie Young on January 26, 1899. Their children are E. C. and Maggie. Sometime after the death of his first wife Jehu married Minnie Phelps. Their children are: Gussie, Odie, Horace C., Virgil F., Athenn, and Susie, all of whom are citizens of Tift County. Jehu Branch served one term as county commissioner of Tift County, and his son, Virgil, served for three years in United States Navy of World War II.
E. D. Branch, son of William and Jane Whiddon Branch, was born Feb- ruary 3, 1877 and on December 1, 1909 married Daisy Brown. To this union were born J. M., F. I., O. N., and Inez. Ed Branch served the county two terms as sheriff. His son, O. N., served for two years in World War II.
Jehu Branch, Senior, son of David and Millie Fletcher Branch, settled at what is now Chula before Southern Railroad was built. Not having married, he left his property to his brothers and sisters.
John A. Branch, son of David and Millie Fletcher Branch, married Dotie Ann Clements February 28, 1867. To this union were born W. W., Wiley, Mary, Millie, Jane, and Duncan. John Branch served in the War Between the States and also served his county as treasurer for three terms.
Wiley Branch, son of David and Millie Fletcher Branch, married on June 23, 1878, Sarah Young, the only one of the old Branch family of David and Millie now living. Sarah Young Branch is about ninety-six years old. She and her husband reared a large, useful family.
J. M. Branch, son of David and Millie Fletcher Branch, married Martha Tucker, and settled near Chula, where they reared a large family of good citizens. All of these Branches have moved away except Mack Branch, of Chula, and one grandson, Curtis Branch, who lives at Brookfield.
ELIAS BRANCH
Elias Branch, son of Mr. William and Mrs. Louise Jane Whiddon Branch, was born February 3, 1877, in a log house which was built in 1868 on lot number 108 of Sixth District of Irwin County, now in Tift County. Elias was deputy sheriff of Irwin County 1903-1904-1905. In 1908 he was elected
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sheriff of Tift County and was reelected in 1910-1912; each term was two years. His home is near his birthplace, the old log house.
On December 1, 1904 Elias married Daisy Brown. Their four children are Marvin, Irvine, Nathaniel and Opal Inez, who married G. E. Fletcher.
Branch has been justice of peace here for fifteen years. Although he has reached the three-score and ten mark, he still takes a vital interest in the welfare of Tift.
His father, William Branch, was a Confederate soldier in Company F-49 Georgia Regiment. He was wounded and given a leave of absence in 1864. His maternal grandparents were Mr. Lott and Judie Dorminey Whiddon. In what is now Sycamore she planted from a sycamore tree a riding whip, which grew to be an enormous tree. The town, Sycamore, according to tradi- tion, is a namesake of the tree.
THE BRITT FAMILY
The measure of success of any life can be determined only after ascertain- ing what was the governing purpose of that life, what its motivation, what ideals and aspirations controlled it, and toward what goal was it striving. This, in spite of the fact that success or failure is generally accounted a mat- ter of wealth or poverty. It is altogether possible for man to live an exceed- ingly purposeful life in which the acquisition of wealth, or the attainment of public position plays an altogether negligible part.
Such a man was Henry Hardy Britt. Son of Hardy Gregory Britt and Louisa Boyette Britt, he was born in Sampson County, N. C., March 8th, 1860. The Britt family had earlier lived in Nottaway County, Virginia, com- ing there from the British Isles. Mr. Britt's spiritual inheritance was one of the highest quality from sturdy, substantial English and Scotch ancestors- Gregory, Boyette and Sewell as well as Britt -: an unusually fine, clean mind; a culture and a dignity that were instructive and in no way super- ficial; uncompromising fidelity to truth and righteousness; a love of learning in all its branches; and a passion for music. These were his spiritual inheri- tance, his material one was the same sort of poverty that was the heritage of most Southern families as an aftermath of the War Between the States. He was graduated from Warsaw Academy, in North Carolina, in 1880-(and was the featured speaker of the occasion on the subject, "Shall Chinese Im- migration Be Restricted?")-He had selected medicine as his profession, but the death of his father necessitated his going back to the family plantation and assuming its management instead.
On December 9th, 1886, Henry Hardy Britt was married to Eliza Laetitia Chesnutt, daughter of Capt. Owen Lemuel Chesnutt and Mary Ann New- kirk Matthis (see Chesnutt Family). She too was born in Sampson County, on Oct. 1st, 1866. On her paternal side she was descended from the Ches- nutts, Hayes and Owen families, English and Welsh. On her maternal side, the Matthews, Kunst, Van Bruntshroten, from Gerritt Cornelissen Van Nieukircken (Newkirk) born in Holland 1635, coming to America 1659, and
A GROUP OF TIFTON PIONEERS
Top row-Captain Owen Lemuel Chesnutt, for whom Chesnutt Avenue in Tifton was named. G. W. Crum, member of Board of Education in Tifton. Center-P. D. Phillips, member of Tift County Board of Education.
Bottom row-Patrick Thomas Carmichael when ninety years old. Henry Hardy Britt, benefactor of Tifton.
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from Cornelius Barentsen Slegt, who was one of the first judges to be ap- pointed in the Colony of New Amsterdam, the appointment having been made by Governor Peter Stuyvesant on May 16, 1660. Among the direct ancestors of both Mr. and Mrs. Britt were Revolutionary soldiers.
Mr. and Mrs. Britt lost their first child, Ellis Lemuel, in North Carolina; and they moved to Tifton in the winter of 1899 where their seven daughters and one son were reared. They were among the organizers and founders of the Presbyterian church in Tifton, and served it with utmost loyalty and devotion until their death, Mr. Britt in the capacity of a Ruling Elder. A bronze tablet commemorating this service was unveiled in his memory at the church on August 26, 1928.
Mrs. Britt was gentle in disposition, completely devoted and loyal to family and friends. A keen sense of humor and an inherent gaiety gave her cheer- fulness and poise under all circumstances; and those who knew her best knew that she was a poet at heart. In addition to the demands of her grow- ing family, Mrs. Britt found time for a few outside activities. except those of her church and her U.D.C. chapter, both of which claimed her devotion to the end.
A deep student of religion, philosophy and history, Mr. Britt preferred the stimulating conversation and fellowship of a few congenial friends around his own fireside to wider contacts with casual acquaintances. He spent little time in the market places but countless hours with his books: and his philosophy of life was at once grave and mirthful, stalwart and severe, but kind and generous. He considered learning, education, culture, an end in itself, and not a means of finding a niche in the world. He believed that every material success should be achieved unostentatiously and carried lightly. He was deeply interested in every phase of music, in which he had a dis- criminating taste; and it was his purpose that his family should share that love and cultivate it to the limit of their abilities. He had no happier hours than when there was music and singing in his own home.
In business Mr. Britt was associated with Gress Manufacturing Company from the time of its forming in Tifton, continuing this connection after the firm moved to Jacksonville, Fla., but preferring to maintain his residence in Tifton. While his material business in life was lumber, his chief interests in life were his church, the education of his family, and the stimulus that comes from intellectual pursuits. To that end he and Mrs. Britt bent every effort, nor counted any cost too great. In pursuit of this aim their material sub- stance was spent.
Mr. Britt died February 1st, 1926; Mrs. Britt, September 26, 1929. Their children:
Mary Lou-Bachelor of Arts degree, Flora MacDonald College, Red Springs, N. C. Master of Arts, Emory University, Atlanta. Special study : Peabody College, Nashville. Tenn., State Teacher's College, Greeley Colo .; Columbia University, New York. Traveled extensively in U. S., Canada, and Europe. Head of Science Department, Albany High School, Albany, Ga .: Teacher of Chemistry at Abraham-Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton.
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Lillian Ann-Bachelor of Music degree, Flora McDonald College. Con- tinued vocal study with Margaret Hecht, Atlanta, Ga., and Guiseppe Agostini, Philadelphia. Married Robert A. Heinsohn of Sylvester, Ga., Muncie, Ind., and Cleveland, Ohio. For sixteen years lived in Philadelphia where Mr. Heinsohn ยท was Agency Director, New York Life Insurance Company. Through her singing was active Artist Member Philadelphia Art Alliance; with sister, Nell, in joint recitals, were recognized concert artists. Traveled U. S., Canada, extensively in South America. Home, Labrah Plantation, Thomasville, Ga.
Blanche Birthlotte-Educated in piano and voice at Flora MacDonald Col- lege, and Cincinnati, Ohio, Conservatory. Head of Music Department, A. and M. College, Statesboro, Ga., and at Catawba College, Newton, N. C. Married J. Carroll Bell of Anderson, S. C., Entomologist, Plant Board of Florida State Department of Agriculture. At home Eustis, Fla. Children :
1. Lillian Carolyn, married Sidney Phillips, Lt. U. S. Air Force; two chil- dren, Lillian Britt, and Sidney Norris.
2. Barbara Blanche, Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Journalism, Florida State College for Women, Tallahassee.
Ruth Patterson-Bachelor of Arts degree Flora MacDonald College; Mas- ter of Arts, Emory University, Atlanta. Special study: State Teacher's Col- lege, Greeley, Colorado; University of California, Berkeley; Columbia Uni- versity, New York. Teacher of History, Palmer College, Fla .; Social Sciences High School, Thomasville, Ga.
Esther Lee-Bachelor of Literature degree, Flora MacDonald College; Master of Arts, Emory University. Special study: University of North Caro- lina; State Teacher's College, Greeley, Colo .; Sorbonne University, Paris, France. Taught French, Brunswick, Ga., and Winnsboro, S. C. Married William R. Anderson, Supt. of Schools, Clinton, S. C., (who has one daugh- ter, Helen, by his first wife, deceased).
Nell Gray-Educated piano and voice Flora MacDonald College, and Cin- cinnati, O., Conservatory of Music. Continued study: Margaret Hecht, At- lanta; Emory University; Guiseppe Agostini, Philadelphia. Head of Vocal Department Palmer College and at Piedmont College, Demorest, Ga. Mar- ried Roy D. Tabor, Toccoa, Ga., with New York Life Insurance Company, Philadelphia. For number of years soprano soloist St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia; has active music studio; in joint recitals with Lillian appeared extensively in concert. Two children: Owen Britt and Nell Britt.
Eliza Owen-Educated at Anderson College, S. C., and at Presbyterian Training School, Richmond, Va. Special study in music: Loyola School of Music, New Orleans, La., and Sorbonne University, Paris, France. Director Young People's Work, Presbyterian Churches in Greenville, S. C., and Vicks- burg, Miss .; member of Department Religious Education and Home Mis- sion Synod of Mississippi. Written many songs and a number of poems which have been published. Married Rev. Archibald Cole Ray of North Caro- lina, pastor Claiborne Avenue Presbyterian Church, New Orleans, and
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Memorial Presbyterian, West Palm Beach, Fla. Children Richard Archibald and Timothy Britt.
Henry Chesnutt-Abraham Baldwin College; The Citadel, Charleston, S. C .; graduated United States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., June 1933. Military service, Fort Benning, Ga .; Fort Knox, Ky .; Fort Huachua, Ariz .; May 1939 to September 1941 on Staff of General Parker, 31st Infantry, Manila, P. I .; Lieutenant Colonel, 365 Infantry, with Fifth Army in Italy, World War II; married Doris Pope of Alabama; children, Henry M., Pope Patterson, Sally Leatitia. Lt. Col. Henry C. Britt's present assignment is G.4 of the 6th Infantry Division in Korea.
EDWARD ALLEN BUCK
Edward Allen Buck, born Greenville, North Carolina, November 17, 1848, came in his youth from North Carolina to South Georgia and engaged in the turpentine business on a large scale in Georgia and Florida. Also, he was a member of the Brunswick, Georgia, firm of Buck and Downing.
E. A. Buck married Lillian Lipsey, of Lee County. They at first lived at Douglas, Georgia, but in the 1890's moved to Tifton where he organized the wholesale grocery, grain, and feed house of Julian, Love, and Buck, his partners being Dr. George Julian and Mayor W. H. Love, Tifton's first mayor. In connection with his firm Buck helped establish Tifton's first bank, a private banking house founded in 1895, the year prior to the founding of the Bank of Tifton. Mr. Buck was president of the Citizens' Bank of Tifton and was an officer of the National Bank of Tifton.
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