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W. W. Timmons was mayor of Tifton in 1904 and councilmen elected to serve with him were S. G. Slack, H. H. Tift and E. P. Bowen. When W. W. Timmons resigned his place on council in order to become eligible as a candidate for mayor, J. J. Golden was elected to fill his unexpired term. This was on November 28, 1903.
Slack continued to serve on council in 1905 when Timmons was again mayor, and Slack served as councilman when Sam M. Clyatt became mayor in 1906. In 1906 S. G. Slack, J. J. Golden, Dr. N. Peterson were appointed by Mayor Clyatt to compile a sanitary code for the city. Slack, E. P. Bowen and J. J. Golden were appointed to draft a Tifton curfew ordinance. On November 6, 1905, Mr. Slack was on a committee which ordered an election held for bonds for water works and a school building. Bonds were voted.
In September of 1906 S. G. Slack, John Murrow, T. E. Phillips, J. A. Warren, H. H. Tift, J. J. Golden were appointed by Ordinary W. S. Walker to constitute an advisory board with the ordinary in selecting plans, making contract, and superintending the building of a courthouse. Mr. Slack con- tinued to serve on various committees of city council for a great many years. In 1907 he, with H. H. Tift, favored passage of a cow ordinance but it failed of passage.
At a meeting at seven P. M. Tuesday, October 29, 1907, a volunteer fire department was organized in Tifton. S. G. Slack was chief of the depart- ment, which was divided into two companies. Captain of Company Number 1 was W. H. Spooner. Captain of Company Number 2 was L. Mask. Mem- bers of Company Number 1 were: W. H. Spooner, Capt., Z. T. Brown, A. C. Soule, B. J. Booth, R. S. Short, H. H. Tift, Jr., W. R. Walton, R. H. Murrow, W. H. Graham, J. B. Greene, W. N. Camp. Members of Company Number 2 were: Capt. L. Mask, C. B. Grugger, J. A. Ryals, J. L. Williams, G. B. Courtney, H. C. Carmichael, P. H. O'Quinn, D. L. Swindle, W. H. McClellan, T. J. Welch, W. P. Stipes.
Later S. G. Slack moved from Tifton to Union City where he made his home for many years and until his death there on Wednesday, October 23, 1940, at the age of eighty-six years. Funeral services and burial were at Union City on the Friday next.
S. G. Slack was survived by his widow, who has since then died, and by the following children: Mrs. Faust Dewitt, of Elkton, Md .; Mary Belle (Mrs. S. R. Smith) of Union City; Harry Slack of Boston, Georgia; Willard Slack, of Rome. Also surviving was one brother, Jule Slack, of Hagersville, Ontario, Canada.
A son, Lawrence Slack, who was very popular in Tifton, died in 1931, unmarried.
Ernest Edward Slack, brother of S. G., was born in Canada, came to
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Tifton and spent the rest of his life here, where he died and is buried. Children of E. E. Slack are Eugene Slack, of Tifton, and Dorothy Slack, who was clerk of Tift County Draft Board during World War II.
JASON SCARBORO
Jason Scarboro, son of Absolom and Demarius Scarboro, was born in Bulloch County, Georgia, May 5, 1860. He came to Tifton from Moultrie.
Although Lucian Lamar Knight states that Jason Scarboro was head of Tifton's first high school in 1888, it appears that this must be a misprint, for it appears from local records that Mr. Scarboro came here at a later date. In 1902 he was head of Tifton schools which had an enrollment of 273, with an average attendance for the fall term of 223. On December 29, 1902 began the spring term for 1903. Professor Scarboro was principal and teachers were Misses Worrell, Smith, Ellis, Murray, Parham. In spring of 1906 the enrollment was the largest in the history of the school up to that time. Scarboro presented a commencement program in the new cotton warehouse "fitted up for the occasion." On the program were Reverend Henry Miller, Essie McDuffie, Adelaide Hargrett, Annie Barnes, Reverend J. W. Domingos, who pronounced the benediction, and Willingham Tift, who spoke on "The Right Start." The school was at this time housed in a small wooden building which stood where the Primitive Baptist Church now is.
On June 12, 1906, an election was held to decide whether or not Tifton would have public schools. Raleigh Eve, S. S. Monk, were clerks of the election, and O. L. Chesnutt, J. P., E. B. O'Neal, and Willard Gaulding were managers. The vote for schools was unanimous, and a new school building was erected in Tifton and first occupied on January 14, 1907, when Sam Clyatt was mayor. Mr. Scrboro was principal at this time and this new building then erected was what is now the Tifton Grammar School.
Mr. Scarboro was principal of schools here for many years, and was instrumental in securing the building of the present Tifton High School, but failing health prevented his continuing longer as school head. He owned a farm near Tifton, and he taught for a brief time in Adel, but was not physically equal to continuing the arduous duties of teaching, in which he had already served long, faithfully and efficiently. Hoping to improve his health, he went West, but there died, October 28, 1926. He was survived by his widow, a delightful and pious woman, who died in 1945 and is buried at Tifton. One son died in early boyhood. Surviving children are Effie Mae (Mrs. George Towns) of Long Island; Mary Belle (Mrs. Scott) , of Tifton; Dr. Edwin Scarboro, of California.
In January, 1923, Jason Scarboro was elected chairman of the Board of Trade. In July of the same 'year he was elected to serve on the executive committee of the Tift County Singing Convention for the following year. Also, that year he worked to keep the A. and M. School in Tifton and was chairman of a committee who drew a resolution against removal. Their efforts were successful.
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MATTHEW SYLVESTER SHAW
Matthew Sylvester Shaw, son of W. S. Shaw, was born in Berrien County, Georgia, October 24, 1873. He was in the mercantile business at Nashville, Gergia, and at Lenox, and then in the naval stores business at Crosland. About 1907 he moved to Tifton and while here engaged in the real estate business, especially pine lands. Also, from time to time he chartered a train and took large excursion parties on trips, and these excursions were a delightful feature of the lighter side of old Tifton. He was a great wit, and was always keeping his friends laughing by his humorous tales and quaint experiences. He was a great favorite with children and one tiny girl used to call him "Bess," by which nickname he was long called by a large circle of devoted friends.
Mr. Shaw married Miss Edna Cox, daughter of the Reverend W. F. Cox, of Omega, and Emma Royal Cox. Of this union were two sons, Roy and Fred. Fred, who attended Mercer and was a brilliant student, did much research for the Tift County Historical Society some years ago. He was assisted by Clem Carson, and their manuscript was one of the references used in the History of Tift County as written by Miss Ida Belle Williams, although she personally did much research in addition. Fred Shaw now teaches at the University of Miami. Clem Carson continues to live in Tifton where he is engaged in business. Fred and Clem were close friends when Fred lived in Tifton.
M. S. Shaw died at his Tifton home, corner of Chesnut Avenue and Sixth Street, April 16, 1929. Funeral was at the Baptist Church and burial in the Tifton cemetery.
Mrs. Shaw taught school in Tifton for many years. She was an excellent teacher, and was greatly beloved. She was found dead in her bed and it was believed she had died during her sleep. Her obituary was in the Tifton Gazette, issue of May 2, 1935. She was fifty-seven years old at the time of her death. Burial was in Tifton cemetery. Mrs. Pickens of Central Avenue, Tifton, is a sister of Mrs. Shaw.
LUTHER SMITH SHEPHERD AND LARKIN G. MAYNARD
Luther Smith Shepherd was born in Fayette County, Georgia, June 29, 1855. At Senoia, Georgia, on January 27, of 1885 or 1887, he married Miss Callie Gaulding, one of twin daughters of Joe and Mary Gaulding, and granddaughter of Archibald Alexander Gaulding, eminent newspaper editor and lawyer of Atlanta, prior to the War Between the States. Callie and her twin sister, Donie, were born at Ellaville, Hamilton County, Florida, Jan- uary 23, 1865. Callie and Donie grew up in Pike County, Georgia. Donie married Larkin G. Maynard.
When Luther and Callie Shepherd had been married about ten years they moved to Tifton, and there Messrs. Luther Smith Shepherd and Larkin G. Maynard went into business together and, as the firm of Shepherd and Maynard, did business for many years. Both families lived on Love Avenue.
Mr. Maynard was a Tifton councilman in 1896, at which time F. G.
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Boatright was mayor, and Holmes Murray was clerk and treasurer. Fellow councilmen were H. H. Tift, E. P. Bowen, W. W. Timmons, John A. Phillips, W. O. Padrick.
In 1926 Mr. Shepherd was stricken ill and he died on January 27, 1928, at his Love Avenue home in Tifton, on his wedding anniversary.
Mrs. Shepherd, a conscientious Methodist, was a woman "of culture, re- finement, gentle and unassuming manner." Hers was a large circle of friends. An article from her pen appeared in the March 21, 1930 issue of the Tifton Gazette. It was on orchids grown by Dr. Meade at Oveida. De- lightfully written, with graphic description and a light touch of humor, it indicates that the writer inherited some of the literary ability of her editor grandfather. At the time it was written Donie was visiting her daughter and her sister in Florida. She did not live much longer than a year afterward. She died Saturday night, June 27, 1931, at the Orange General Hospital, Orlando, Florida. Her body was brought to Tifton and funeral was from her Love Avenue home. At the time of the funeral her twin, Donie, lay ill in a hospital in Tampa, Florida. She, however, im- proved and lived until July 22, 1939.
Luther Smith Shepherd and his wife, Callie, and Larkin G. Maynard and Callie's twin, Donie, are buried on the same lot in Tifton cemetery. "They were together in life, and in death they were not separated."
GEORGE ALFRED BRANNON. SMITH
George Alfred Brannon Smith, born at Columbus, Georgia, August 4, 1857, was son of George Bartlett Smith of the Bartletts and Smiths of Con- necticut, and Laura Virginia Brannon, of Columbus, Georgia. George Bart- lett Smith's family came to Columbus from Connecticut before the War Between the States. He graduated from Mercer with the A.B. degree and then went to Yale where he received his M.D. degree. Also he was a doctor of divinity. A great scholar, he spoke thirteen languages. At the time of his marriage he was cashier of a Columbus bank, but he resigned the bank position and later owned a drug store in Wetumka, Alabama, where he also was editor of a paper. He was editor of a Montgomery paper at one time.
At the outbreak of the War Between the States Smith's family returned to Connecticut but he entered the service of the Confederacy, and went into the army. His wife and children were living at his wife's birthplace, a large and handsome Columbus house called the "Lion House," because its en- trance was guarded by large carved stone lions. The Union soldiers seized the house as officers' headquarters. Mrs. Smith locked herself and children in her room where she remained three days. When necessity drove her thence she was courteously treated by her uninvited guests. Her silver, which she had hidden in a secret passage under the house, was unmolested, and later was recovered safely. She sold her grand piano, sent the money to her husband, who, with it, paid for a substitute for military service and then became a secretary to Vice-President Jefferson Davis.
The four children of the above mentioned union were George Alfred
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Brannon Smith, who was the eldest child, Freeman, Martin, and Jim. All except George grew up and died unmarried.
George A. B. Smith attended a school of pharmacy in Atlanta. On Sep- tember 28, 1882, at the First Baptist Church at Wetumka, he married Lula E. Mann, daughter of Frances Marion Mann, who was second cousin of the renowned Horace Mann, for whom Horace Mann School was named, and governor of Massachusetts.
After completing his pharmaceutical course, Dr. Smith lived for about three years in Columbus but then went to Macon where he was manager of the wholesale house of Lamar, Taylor and Riley. In Macon his daughter, Laura, was born. From Macon the Smiths went to Athens, where little Lula Belle Smith was born. Thence the family went to Brunswick where Dr. Smith was manager of Lloyd and Adams, later Smith and Adams.
Dr. Smith was a very good druggist and it is said that he was the highest paid druggist in Georgia during his time. He came from Brunswick to Tifton in 1896.
Upon coming to Tifton, Dr. Smith built a large brick store to house his drug business, and a large frame dwelling to house his family. The store was the Main Street store now occupied by Wright, and the house was the large edifice at the northwest corner of Central Avenue at Sixth Street, which now houses Miss Tucker's business school. There for many years Dr. and Mrs. Smith and the two beautiful daughters, Laura and Lula Belle lived, and there were spent many happy days, for the girls were winsome and unusually pretty; especially so was Laura. Both girls attended Wes- le'yan, at Macon.
Dr. Smith looked upon his profession as a means of serving humanity and often he filled prescriptions for which he knew he would never be paid, and he did much charity work. He continued in the drug business in Tifton until 1906 when failure of his own health caused him to retire and seek improvement in the dry climate of Denver, Colorado. However, he was not successful in his search for health. In Denver he died, in 1908. His body was brought back to Tifton for burial and the large concourse of friends at the funeral service and at the grave attested the love and esteem in which he was held by this community.
Not many months after Dr. Smith's death, Lula Belle, at college, was stricken with typhoid fever and died. Mrs. Smith and Laura lived on at the Smith house for many years, and in 1918 Mrs. Smith built and moved into a brick bungalow next door, on Sixth Street. Laura was the first woman in Georgia to drive an automobile. The car was a big Rambler which her mother bought in 1908 from H. H. Tift, Jr., for $2,600. Mrs. Smith lived in the Sixth Street brick bungalow until her death in 1938.
Laura Smith married the late Keith Carson, Tifton real estate man, and son of Capt. Joseph Carson, C. S. A., and Charlotte Carson. Of this union were two children, a son, who died in childhood, and a daughter, Laura Smith, who married Sam Chastain and lives at Palm Beach. The Chastains have one son.
Laura Smith was by her second marriage Mrs. Edmund Walker. To
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Laura and Edmund Walker of Madison, Georgia, was born a daughter, Lula.
On September 12, 1945, at the First Baptist Church at Folkston, Georgia, Laura Smith was united in marriage with Judge Albert Gallatin Foster, of Madison.
ROBLEY DUNGLISON SMITH
Robley Dunglison Smith, Jr., was born in Knoxville, Crawford County, Georgia, August 3, 1882, son of Robley Dunglison Smith, Sr. (born and died in Crawford County, Georgia, at Knoxville), and Nancy Missouri Per- sons Smith (born Crawford County, died Tifton), daughter of Thomas Persons. Nancy was a kinswoman of William Pinkney Persons and John Thaddeous Persons, brothers who married respectively, Susan Pickard and Sarah Pickard, sisters of Dr. William Lowndes Pickard of Tifton.
Robley Dunglison, in Tifton called "R. D." was grandson of Dr. Smith who went to Jefferson Medical College and named his son for his former professor at the college, Dr. Robley Dungleson, who was physician to Thomas Jefferson.
"R. D." received his schooling at Knoxville, Georgia; received his bachelor of law degree from the University of Georgia in 1904, and on August 20, of that same year, he came to Tifton, where he has continued to practice law from the time of his arrival until the present. He was attorney for Tift County for about five years. Keen minded and popular, he has a large practice.
In Senoia, April 28, 1907, R. D. Smith married Mary Carlton (died No- vember, 1934), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Carlton, of Senoia.
On March 28, 1936, R. D. Smith married Anna Hopkins, daughter of Judge W. H. Hopkins, of Thomasville.
R. D. Smith had two sisters and three brothers, the late Dr. W. T. Smith and Howard Smith, both of Tifton, and Northrop Smith, of Macon.
WILLIAM THOMAS SMITH
William Thomas Smith, born March 5, 1876, in Crawford County, Geor- gia, was son of Robley Dunglison Smith, a Knoxville, Georgia, lawyer, and Nancy Missouri Persons Smith, daughter of Thomas Persons. Robert Dun- glison Smith was son of a physician who married a Pennsylvanian. W. T. spent his childhood in Knoxville, where he received his schooling prier to entering George Washington Medical School, at Washington, where he graduated in 1898. Thereafter he practiced medicine in Colloden, Georgia for one year and then went to Tallahassee, Florida, where he practiced medicine until he moved to Tifton in 1906.
A young woman named Maude Burns came from Tennessee to Tift County to teach. Dr. William T. Smith and Miss Maude Burns were mar- ried at Columbia, Tennessee, December 29, 1909.
During World War I, Dr. Smith, in 1917, entered the United States Medical Corps, in which he was first lieutenant.
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After he returned from the war, Dr. Smith did post graduate work at Tulane University, where he specialized in ear, eye, nose and throat. Re- turing to Tifton he here practiced as a specialist until three days prior to his death at the Tift County Hospital, Saturday, at 1:15 A. M. Decem- ber 8, 1945. Burial was at Tifton.
Dr. Smith was a member of the Tifton Methodist Church. He was a kind, cheerful man, who was highly esteemed and greatly beloved by a host of friends. He loved to fish, and went fishing on nearly every holiday.
Children of Dr. W. T. Smith and Maude Burns Smith are: Maude Burns Smith (Mrs. H. E. Killian, of Anniston, Alabama) ; Katherine (Mrs. Dave Howard, of Atlanta) ; William T. Smith, Jr.
Issue of Maude Burns Smith and Dr. H. E. Killian: Joyce and Claude Edward. Issue of Katherine Smith and Dave Howard: twins, Ann and David. Issue of Dr. William T. Smith, Jr., D.D.S., and Cecilia Travis Smith, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Travis, of Savannah: Gordon Burns Smith and Bruce Smith.
Dr. W. T. Smith had two sisters and three brothers. The brothers are: Robert D. Smith, Jr., Tifton lawyer, Howard Smith, of Tifton (who mar- ried a sister of Maude Burns) ; and Northrop Smith, of Macon, who mar- ried two Solomon sisters, the second wife being Elizabeth (Buff) Solomon, of Macon. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Smith have two sons, Howard Smith, Jr., and Robley Smith.
WALTER CRAWFORD SPURLIN
William Crawford Spurlin (born February 10, 1868, in Pulaski County, near Hawkinsville-died February 8, 1940, at Tifton; buried in Tifton cem- etery), was son of Frances Bateman Spurlin and William H. Spurlin, a farmer who also owned and conducted a livery stable and blacksmith shop. When little William C. was about one 'year old his mother died. He was therefore reared by his older sister, Ella, and by his step-mother. He lived in or near Hawkinsville until nineteen years of age and then went to Sumner, Georgia, where he worked in a dry goods store, or commissary for a few months before coming to Tifton where he worked first at the Tift Commissary and later at the Tift Dry Goods Store. Later Spurlin's Store carried shoes and men's clothing.
Highly esteemed for his integrity of character and for his unfailing courtesy to all, W. C. Spurlin was "a gentleman of the old school."
Mr. Spurlin was twice married. His first wife was Allie O'Kelley. By this union were two children, William Francis Spurlin, of Miami (mar- ried Alline Bragg. Issue: W. F., Jr., and Florence), and an infant who died in 1900, when, also, Mrs. Spurlin died.
William C. Spurlin on September 7, 1904, at Sparks, Georgia, married Laura Mckinney, daughter of J. W. Mckinney, of Sparks, and Nancy Mc- Crainie (Mckinney), of Berrien County. Issue: Walter Crawford, who married Estelle Connor; James Raleigh, who died in 1909, aged eighteen months; Helen; Eunice.
Walter and Estelle Connor Spurlin have two children, James Kenneth
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and Laurel Ann.
In 1895 W. C. Spurlin was prelate of the Kinghts of Pythias, Piney Woods Lodge, No. 50. Other officers that year were: E. J. Williams, Jr., C. C., O. M. Tift, V. C., J. B. Green, M. of W., J. A. Peterson, M. of A., H. S. Murray, M. of F. and K. of R. and S., William Wilson, M. of E., H. F. Newton, I. G., J. A. Cole, O. G.
MRS. HENRY HARDING TIFT
NELSON TIFT
Tift County is named for Nelson Tift, founder of Albany, Georgia, and an uncle of Henry Harding Tift, Tifton's founder. Nelson sold Henry the land on which Tifton now stands. It was then covered with a mighty forest of virgin yellow pines.
Nelson Tift, born in Connecticut in 1810, lived in his native state until twenty years old. Long fascinated by tales of the South, he, at the age of twenty, came to Charleston, South Carolina, where he was with a mer- cantile house. In 1835 Nelson settled in Augusta.
In September, 1836, Nelson Tift received from a company of Augusta business men $1300.00 with which to come to the site now Albany and found a town. Those composing the company were John Rawls, Dr. R. N. Taylor, W. King, T. J. Watts, B. F. Watts.
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Traveling on horseback, Nelson arrived October 13, 1836 at the site now Albany. There he found Dr. Taylor and John Rawls directing white hands in construction of two log buildings. Next day the hands quit. After much search and travel Nelson secured others who completed these and other buildings.
On March 19, 1837 a steamboat, Mary Emeline, from Apalachiola, ar- rived with supplies for a store. Nelson Tift bought interests of the other pioneers. He had surveyed, cleared off timber and laid out a town site one mile square, the older portion of present Albany.
Nelson Tift, May, 1838, married Maria Mercer, a niece of Jesse Mercer for whom Mercer University was named. To Nelson and Maria Mercer Tift were born two sons and five daughters: Nelson, James M., Annie, Fannie, Isabel, Clara, Irene.
In 1841, the Georgia Legislature granted a charter for Albany, Georgia. One of the city's first commissioners was Nelson Tift. Also at that time Nelson Tift and J. C. Harris received a permit to build a bridge over the Flint River.
Albany, Georgia was named for Albany, New York.
During the War Between the States Nelson Tift and his brother, Asa, were Confederate sympathizers and materially aided the Confederacy by furnishing supplies of pork and beef, and by building boats. Also, they owned a hard-brick factory, a grist mill, and a barrel factory.
Nelson and Asa employed their nephew, Henry Tift, for a while in Al- bany before Henry moved to the site now Tifton where he established a sawmill, in 1872. The sawmill village became Tifton.
In Albany, Tift Avenue and Tift Park are named for Nelson Tift. He served as mayor of Albany and he was representative of his district in the Georgia Legislature. Nelson was active in Albany's development as well as with his personal business until shortly before his death at the age of eighty-one, in 1891.
HENRY HARDING TIFT, FOUNDER OF TIFTON
Henry Harding Tift was born in Mystic, Connecticut, March 16, 1841. He was one of seven children born to Phoebe Harding Tift and Amos Chapman Tift, a Mystic merchant, descendant of that Tift family of which John Tefft, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, who died in 1676, and John Tifft, of Nassau, New York, were early American progenitors.
Henry Tift's schooling was in Mystic common schools. Thereafter he attended historic Greenwich Academy from which he was graduated, 1859. At eighteen he became an apprentice in a Mystic machine shop where he remained for three 'years. A MAN of VISION, he did not scorn to begin work at a dollar and a half a week in order to learn the things he wished to know, and the knowledge of which was a useful factor in his later suc- cess in life, when came the time for him to build an industry on which a town was founded and which led to development of a whole community.
After finishing his appenticeship, Henry Tift spent five years as steam- ship engineer in lines operating between Apalachicola and Key West, and
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on the C. H. Mallory Line. His brother, W. O. Tift, married the daughter of the owner of this line.
In 1870 Henry went to Albany, Georgia, where he became general man- ager of the N. and A. F. Tift Manufacturing Company two years before moving to the site of what is now Tifton, the town which is named for him and which he founded. Alban'y had been founded by Henry's uncle, Nelson Tift, and from Nelson Henry purchased his acreage in what was then Berrien, but is now Tift County. The land was then a vast unbroken tract of heavily wooded pine forest. The tall yellow pines were in their virgin growth. He acquired more and more land until he owned more than fifty-five thousand acres.
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