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The Carver Family
About the year 1810 the Carver family came to what is now Coffee County from South Carolina. There were two old men, probably cousins. One was Samp Carver and the other was Sammie Carver. Sampie Carver was the father of Rev. Bill Carver, well known Baptist preacher who lived in Coffee County, about the close of the Civil War. Sammie Carver had a sis- ter named Peggy, who married old man Mose Kirkland, Sr. Old man Samuel Carver was the father of Sol Carver, Braz Carver, Gabe Carver, Jim Carver, Lige Carver, Silas Carver and John Carver.
Jim Carver, Sr., was the father of Joe Carver, Allen Carver, Pink Carver, Jesse Carver and Vincent Carver. Jim Carver had the following named girls: Boyce, who married William Gaskin, Eliza Carver married Arthur Lott, one married Hiriam Davis, Hulda Carver married Tom Minix, and Sarah Carver married Eliga Purvis.
John Carver married a Metts. He had two sons, Josh Carver and Jesse Carver. He had the following girls: Patsy, Bede, who married Joe Cato, Eliza, who
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married Jack Levins, Millie married a McCall, Mary married a Howard.
Sammie Carver, Sr., was the father of a girl named Naney, who was the mother of S. M. Harrell, prominent farmer of Coffee County.
The Sapp Family
Enoch Sapp came to Georgia from Virginia and married Ruth Barr. Their children were: John Sapp, Henry Sapp, Joseph Sapp, Enoch Sapp, Levi Sapp.
John Sapp married Gemima Cato. Their children were : Henry Sapp, John Sapp, Dan Sapp, Dave Sapp, Sarah Sapp, Bettie Sapp. .
Henry Sapp married Delila Cato. Their children were : John Sapp, Henry Sapp, Enoch Sapp, Mary Sapp, Sarah Sapp, Fannie Sapp.
Joseph Sapp married Sallie Booth. Their children were : Mary Sapp, Nancy Sapp, E. S. Sapp, M. C. Sapp, H. W. Sapp, G. M. Sapp, Christian Sapp, Tempie Sapp.
Enoch Sapp married Martha Smith. Their children were : Elias, John, Jim, Henry, Richard, Tom and Missouri.
Levi Sapp married Sarah Solomon. Their children were: William, Fannie, Joe, Tilden and Ruth.
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Priscilla Ward (Jones) and Her Ward Boys
James Preston Ward was the oldest of the Ward boys. He was about fifteen years old when he came to Georgia. About the year 1813 he was married to Miss Zylphia Kirkland. She was the only sister of Moses, Timothy, and Joshua Kirkland, and the half sister of Archie Miller. With this marriage began the relationship of the Wards and Kirklands, and their generations. To them were born three boys and eight girls. The boys were Jackson, Calvin Augustus, and Walton W. Ward. The girls were Sallie, Nancy, Amanda, Arminta, Priscilla, Elizabeth, Hester and Desdemona. Sallie married Sam Thomas and moved to Florida before the Civil War. Nancy married Mr. Yates and moved away and was lost sight of. Amanda married Zeke Thomas and moved to Florida before the Civil War. Priscilla married Sam Denton and died early in life. Arminta married Mark Lott and lived and died in Coffee County. Hester married Hamp Tanner and lived and died in Coffee County. Desde- mona, the youngest girl, never married. Elizabeth married James Graham and recently died at the age of ninety-four years.
Abram Ward, the second son of "Mother Jones," was named for Abram Gibbs, father of "Mother Jones." Early in life he moved to Florida and his generation now live in Bradford, Alachua, and LaFayette Counties.
Joab Ward, the youngest son, married a Miss Carver and had several sons and one daughter. The sons were, old man Billy Ward, a doctor and a Baptist
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preacher, who lived and died in Coffee County. Josh Ward and Abram Ward who moved to Florida long before the Civil War. Most of the Wards and their generations continued to live in Coffee County and many of the young ones are here now.
James Preston Ward reared and educated a grand- son whose name was John Franklin Ward. He married Sarah A. Hilliard and they had three boys, James Franklin Ward, Warren Preston Ward, and John C. Ward.
James Franklin Ward married Minta Kirkland, Warren Preston Ward married Annie Canova and they had the following children : George, Frank, Pres- ton, Annie, Neele and Ward; John C. Ward married Maud Wilcox.
I have already told you that "Mother Jones" had six boys; three Wards and three Hargraves; James Preston Ward was the oldest Ward boy and Abram Hargraves was the oldest Hargraves. All these boys lived with their mother where she first settled until one by one married and made homes of their own.
About the year 1824, Abram Hargraves married Rhoda Carver, the daughter of Samson Carver; they had four boys and six girls. The boys were John, Abram, Christopher, and Sydney. The girls were Mary, Teresa, Linnie, Lucinda, Susan and Feraby. Mary married Honorable W. M. Denton; Feraby mar- ried Major John M. Spence of Ware County, and died young ; Linnie married George Moody of Clinch Coun- ty, and lived to be very old; Lucinda married Thomas Sweat of Ware County; Susan married Jonathan L. Morgan and lived to be eighty-two years of age; and Teresa married Capt. Cuyler W. Hilliard of Ware
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County. John Hargraves married a Miss Parthenia Morgan from Echols County ; early in life he moved to Florida and died there in 1876. Abram Hargraves, Jr., married first Mary McDonald, daughter of Col. Wil- liam A. McDonald, and had two children, Leon and Bartow. Leon was the father of Col. Leon Hargraves of Pearson, Ga. Bartow lives near Waresboro. He married Laura Williamson in England while on a busi- ness trip over there. Sydney married Miss Mary Lott. Christopher married Ellen Roberts.
Tom Hargraves married a Miss Beverly and lived near Millwood, in Ware County, Georgia. He reared a large family of boys and girls. Many of his de- scendents live in that county now.
The other two Hargraves boys, Jack and Tom, were twins. Jack never married. He settled in Ware County, near where Bickley is now located. He built the old mill-dam now owned by Hon. William Denton. He had a good farm there, owned slaves and operated a farm in connection with his water mill. He lived to be an old man and died at his home in Ware County.
Priscilla Ward-Hargraves died about 1846, and was buried on the hill where she and her boys landed more than forty years before. Her grave is not marked. The year 1914, Prof. Gibbs, of Tennessee, a relative of "Mother Jones," was here and sought to find the location of her grave. He had a family tree showing the relation between "Mother Jones," himself and W. G. McAdoo, on the Gibbs' side of the family.
The grave of "Mother Jones" is about one hundred vards southeast of the head of the Spring Branch near
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where the saw mill of William Dent was located in 1869.
Abram Hargraves
"Mother Jones" was right, when she decided that her husband, John Hargraves, who had deserted her while living in North Carolina, went back to Eng- land; by the time she and her six boys reached the Wiregrass Country, in Georgia, John Hargraves had landed at his old home in England, and was rapidly adding to his fortune already accumulated. In the course of time, "Mother Jones' " six boys married and made homes for themselves.
I have already told you that Abram Hargraves married Rhody Carver, and that they had ten children ; four boys and six girls. Soon after Abram was mar- ried, he settled on a farm on the west side of the Seventeen-Mile Creek, about eighteen miles southeast of Douglas, Ga. Mr. Hargraves was a thrifty farmer, had plenty of land, and plenty of stock, and he also owned some slaves and in a short time he had ac- cumulated considerable property. In fact, he was considered a wealthy man. Soon after he married, an inquiry came from the Bank of Savannah, Georgia, from the banks of England for information about Abram Hargraves; through them he learned that his father was dead and had left a large estate and that an annuity of several thousand dollars, in gold, was due him at once, and every year the same amount would be paid him through the banks of Savannah, Georgia ; and so about once a year, Mr. Hargraves and some of his neighbors went to Savannah by private convey- ance to sell their produce, lay in supplies for their farm, and at the same time Mr. Hargraves collected
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his interest. It required about a week's time to go to Savannah and return, with horse and cart. Some- times they had trouble with water courses, which they had to cross.
A good many stories are told about Mr. Hargraves and his trips to Savannah. He had grown up among the Creek Indians in the Wiregrass Country and had many of their habits of life. He wore a homespun shirt, carried a shot bag over his shoulders, a powder horn around his waist, and did not, in any way, have the appearance of being a well-to-do farmer. It is said that on one of his trips to Savannah, Mr. Har- graves went to the stables to buy a horse; when he priced the horse the stock man looked at him and said, "I will sell you this horse for $100.00, with good security, or $50.00 cash." The man looked at Mr. Hargraves as he emphasized the word "Cash." Mr. Hargraves returned the hard look, as he said, "Cash it shall be," and ran his hand into his shot bag and pulled out fifty shining dollars in gold. There was plenty more where that came from.
Mr. Hargraves was a very industrious man, worked himself and made a good plow hand in the field, as long as he lived.
Another amusing story is told about Mr. Hargraves, it is as follows: It is said that Mr. Ivey Kirkland, at this time a prosperous merchant of Douglas, Georgia, went to see the daughter of Mr. Hargraves. Mr. Kirk- land was diked up in Sunday style. Mr. Hargraves asked the young man if he would not like to go with him to the woods and see his fine hogs. Mr. Kirkland did not know how to refuse and so he went. Mr. Hargraves took him through the woods, through the
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branches, through the muddy bays, and at last back to the Hargraves' home where he was gladly welcomed by the young lady whom he was courting. Mr. Kirk- land was a sight to behold. His shoes were muddy, and his pants torn. He looked more like a man who had spent a week in the woods, than like a young merchant from Douglas out courting a country girl.
The war came on and he and his sons-in-law did their duty in that trying time. When the war was over, a call came to Mr. Hargraves from the banks of England that $70,000.00 in gold had been placed to his credit in the bank and that it was up to him to go or send to England for the money.
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A List of Some Old People of Coffee County Married More Than Fifty Years Ago
Jake Anderson and L. Bowen married June 2nd, 1874. William Adams and Susan Harrell married July 20th, 1879. Texas Burkett and Ann Davis mar- ried May 6th, 1873. Charles C. Burrows and Anna Solomon married May 19th, 1871. Joe Bailey and Mary Pearson married April 12th, 1871. Tharp Bailey and Mary A. Ricketson married June 4th, 1874. Wiley Byrd and S. S. Creech married February 23, 1873. Joel W. Brooker and R. M. Wall married May 21st, 1876. John W. Burch and Mary Harrell married April 21st, 1877. Wiley Byrd and Elizabeth Kirkland mar- ried January 11th, 1878. B. T. Bagley and L. C. Davis married April 15th, 1877. John W. Booker and Nancy E. Parrish married September 26th, 1878.
Abner W. Curry and Mattie Wilcox married March 18th, 1873. James Carver and Rhoda Tucker married August 26th, 1873. William Chaney and Mary Moon married November 21st, 1873. Silas Carver and Nancy Joiner married November 8th, 1873. David Cannon and S. Suggs married March 10th, 1874. Joshua Carter and Martha Davis married January 9th, 1876. Jabriel Carver and Mary Joiner married July 23rd, 1876. B. Cothern and Melvinia Vining married March 28th, 1878. George Chaney and Lucendia Ward married May 18th, 1878. Jesse Carver and Hariot Mixon mar- ried August 23rd, 1878. W. B. Courson and Mattie Ward married January 10th, 1880. L. Cowart and Nancy Gaskin married November 20th, 1879.
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Q. Douglas and Lucinda Lott married March 17th, 1873. Mose Davis and Mary J. Meeks married De- cember 11th, 1871. D. Davis and L. Wooten married August 14th, 1875. S. Davis and E. Hursey married April 29th, 1875. R. H. Dent and Eliza A. E. J. Trowell married January 26th, 1878. J. B. Day and Fannie Fussell married January 17th, 1879. Thomas Davis and Eliza Tanner married March 17th, 1879. Richard Davis and E. Gaskin married July 20th, 1879. James Day and Mary Lankford married March 29th, 1879.
Jesse Edinfield and Rena Spence married December 1st, 1873.
William T. Fussell and Elizabeth Roberts married November 26th, 1873. John Fussell and Ann J. Kirk- land married April 25th, 1874. J. W. Flanders and Sarah Burch married August 21st, 1874.
C. O. Harper and Lucinda Lott married February 10th, 1871. Henry Harper and Sarah Vickers married March 17th, 1873. William S. Hand and Susan Sim- mons married February 7th, 1874. H. S. Harper and Mary Vickers married January 10th, 1874. J. Q. Ham- mond and A. P. Pickern married December 29th, 1875. Dr. M. M. Hall and Rebecca B. Lott married January 10th, 1875. J. F. Henson and Nancy Lott married May 29th, 1876. John Hargraves and Nancy Hulett mar- ried April 28th, 1877. Lovett Harrell and Mary Murry married February 26th, 1878. H. L. Hutson and Mollie Merritt married January 20th, 1879.
William Jowers and Delilah Paulk married Decem- ber 21st, 1872. Joe Jowers and Thaney Ruis married February 26th, 1874. David Jordon and Mary Sears married October 13th, 1874. E. Jowers and Dicey M.
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Ricketson married January 3rd, 1876. Elijah Jowers and Sarah Sapp married May 5th, 1877. Allen Joiner and Susan Adams married July 31st, 1878.
Mose J. Kirkland and Marjorie Wilcox married April 26th, 1878, Jeff Kirkland and Mamie Greer married April 24th, 1879.
Henry Love and Artie Took married May 8th, 1876. Thomas M. Lee and Eliza A. Meeks married January 7th, 1877. J. S. Lott and Avie Peterson married April 4th, 1877. John M. Lott and Eliza J. Kirkland married December 20th, 1878. Mark Lott and Amanda Ward married August 10th, 1877. David Lott and Elizabeth Byrd married November 5th, 1878. R. E. Lankford and Ellen Hutto married October 22nd, 1878. W. H. Love and Abbie J. Kirkland married December 2nd, 1878. Elisha Lott and R. Vickers married January 10th, 1880.
Hiram Mancil, Jr., and Mary Arnold married April 18th, 1874. John Metts and Rhoda Boyd married November 28th, 1874. M. Metts and Ellen Bowen married January 26th, 1875. Eugene Merier, Sr., and S. A. Wilkinson married July 22nd, 1875. A. S. Minchew and Mary E. Denton married November 6th, 1875. Benajah Mills and E. Pearson married October 4th, 1872. Rev. Malcom Meeks and Elizabeth Tanner married April 6th, 1874. John J. Meeks and Rebecca Douglas married March 4th, 1877. Elias Metts and Nancy Bratcher married January 7th, 1878. John Minchew and Rhoda Ricketson married April 27th, 1879. C. F. Meeks and Dorcas Douglas married April 20th, 1879.
E. H. McClelland and E. Anderson married De- cember 4th, 1874. W. S. Mckinnon and Abbiegal Taff
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married June 24th, 1878. B. E. Mclendon and Jose- phine Sears married November 2nd, 1880.
George W. Nelms and Nancy Smith married Sep- tember 10th, 1874. J. Newbern and Mary A. Woods married March 9th, 1875. L. Newbern and Elizabeth Douglas married September 5th, 1877. A. Nolan and Elizabeth Overstreet married July 16th, 1877.
J. M. Odum and Nancy Hinson married March 23rd, 1877. James O'Mally and Ida Taylor married April 8th, 1879.
S. D. Phillips and Samanthia Wilcox married April 8th, 1874. C. S. Parker and Elizabeth Summerlin married November 18th, 1874. David Peterson and E. Byrd married December 18th, 1874. Paul Pallicer and R. Youngblood married December 6th, 1875. John Pridgen and Elizabeth Wooten married November 29th, 1875. L. Passmore and Jane Smith married May 15th, 1875. Elisha Purvis and Sarah Carver married July 17th, 1875. Lucius Paulk and Elizabeth Vickers married December 31st, 1877. John R. Paulk and L. Purvis married March 6th, 1880.
John Royals and Elizabeth Roberts married January 17th, 1873. James S. Royals and Levicey Bailey mar- ried January 23rd, 1874. John W. Robert and Dora A. Royals married December 25th, 1873. S. Ricketson and Mary Smith married September 21st, 1875. Sam Register and Emiline Hutto married October 16th, 1876. William Roe and Sarah Ann Sears married August 24th, 1878. Gray Roberts and Sarah J. Wilcox married December 19th, 1879. John Roberts and Barbara Denton married December 25th, 1879.
John Solomons and S. Ann Royals married De- cember 25th, 1872. Elisha Summerlin and Delilah
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Solomon married January 1st, 1872. Henry Solomon and Sarah A. Hutto married May 30th, 1871. M. Sum- merlin and Elizabeth Hill married December 9th, 1873. R. S. Smith and Symeria Gaskin married December 27th, 1873. Levy Sapp and Sarah Solomon married February 9th, 1874. Mathey Spivey and Adline Ben- nett married April 25th, 1874. R. R. Stevens and H. E. Ricketson married July 22nd, 1875. John Spivey and E. Mclendon married February 2nd, 1876. Wil- liam Summerlin and Amanda Sears married November 17th, 1875. J. T. Spivey and Lydia Remis married August 18th, 1874. George Sears and Julia O'Neal married May 14th, 1878. George Sears and Elizabeth White married March 12th, 1879.
D. G. Thomas and Mary Taylor married March 1st, 1873. John L. Tyson and Martha Ricketson married July 8th, 1864. John T. Tucker and Nancy Pickern married July 9th, 1874. Richard Tucker and Roxie Wooten married November 21st, 1874. Jacob Tucker and Easter Pickern married July 9th, 1874. B. W. Tanner and Mary A. Davis married December 20th, 1874. J. W. Tanner and Hester Ward married May 18th, 1878. G. W. Tanner and Eliza A. Taylor married April 13th, 1879. John A. Taylor and Martha Thomas married July 24th, 1879. Berry H. Tanner and Pen- nolope Davis married December 11th, 1879.
J. J. Varnedore and Elizabeth Davis married No- vember 21st, 1873. Banny Vining and Martha Crosby married April 16th, 1874. Dennis Vickers and Mary Carver married November 6th, 1876.
W. J. Wright and Missouri Burkett married May 6th, 1873. D. S. Walls and Rebecca Brooker married August 16th, 1873. Bryant Wood and Elizabeth An-
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derson married May 7th, 1873. J. H. Wall and D. E. Brooker married June 18th, 1874. Rowan Wood and Mary A. Hutto married December 29th, 1874. G. W. Wood and Nellie Anderson married December 16th, 1874. M. Wood and E. Ricketson married October 18th, 1875. J. W. Windfield and Mary A. Wright married January 30th, 1873. D. S. Wall and Annie Brooker married March 6th, 1873. John A. Waters and Elizabeth Meeks married February 27th, 1877. James L. Walker and Dollie V. Watson married December 20th, 1879.
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Pioneers of Coffee County South of the Ocmulgee-Going to Market-Building Roads-Names of Streams
When the pioneers settled in the Wiregrass Country, in the year eighteen hundred, there were no counties laid out in this part of the state; no lots of lands had been surveyed and there were no roads.
All south of the Ocmulgee River, reaching nearly to the coast on the east, to the Florida line on the south, and on to the Chattahoochee River on the west, was one great stretch of pine woods and wiregrass, with here and there a lone pioneer. There were no roads through the country and no bridges over the streams.
When an immigrant, coming south, crossed the Ocmulgee River, he investigated the country until he found a place that suited him and built his little home, without reference as to who owned the land. In the course of time, trails and settlement roads were made from one place to another; there was a road out from Burkett's Ferry, on the Ocmulgee River, leading south.
Settlements were far apart at this early time in the history of Wiregrass Georgia; there were no towns and no places to trade, except Savannah, St. Marys, Centerville, and perhaps a few little stores situated up and down the Ocmulgee River.
Captain Thomas Wilcox, and Captain Aaron Brant- ley ran as the captains on the river boats and supplied some of the people in this section of Georgia with their merchandise and trade supplies.
When it became necessary to go to market, a group would get together, with perhaps a half dozen horse
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carts, and make the trip. It required a week or more to go to Savannah and return. It was also necessary to make this trip when the weather was dry, in order that the streams of water would be low and passable. A little later on in the history of this county, they had what was called flats, and on them they loaded their horses and carts, and with a long pole pushed them across the streams. The pioneers often blazed the trees, selecting the best routes from one place to another, and always selecting shallow places in the creeks as fords where they might cross when the water was not too high. There were so few people in this part of Georgia, and so little travel, that very little attention was paid to roads.
About 1812 to 1815, the Blackshear Road was built, extending from Jacksonville, in Telfair County, to Camp Pinkney, on the St. Mary's River, where old Centerville was afterwards located. The road was opened by the State troops, commanded by General David Blackshear. The road passed over the grounds where Douglas and Broxton now stand. Thomas Wil- cox, grandfather of Dr. Jeff Wilcox, of Willacoochee, Georgia, was a soldier and helped to build this road. The road was built during our second war with Eng- land, for military purposes.
General Blackshear named many of the streams of Coffee County. The county had not been surveyed or named. Only the wild woods and the Creek In- dians, with ever now and then a lone settler, were here. Some of the creeks named by him are the Five-Mile Creek, the Nine-Mile Creek, the Seventeen-Mile Creek, and the Twenty-Mile Creek. The Creek Indians named
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most of the large streams and their names remain with us to this day.
Indian Names
Ye say that they have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That, 'mid the forests where they roamed, There rings no hunter's shout ; But their name is on your waters, Ye may not wash it out.
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HON. W. G. BRANTLEY
ALLEN M. SPENCE
SOLICITORS SUPERIOR COURT
HONORABLE W. G. BRANTLEY, Solicitor-General of the Brunswick Circuit for many years, and afterwards went to Congress. ALLEN M. SPENCE, now serving as Solicitor-General of the Superior Courts of Waycross Circuit.
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Erwin Spivey
Erwin Spivey, known by the Armies North and South as "Gordon's Bull," was in Company E. 26th, Georgia. Mr. Spivey had a tre- mendous voice, loud, wild and weird. He could squeal and yell and bellow like a bull and be heard for miles around. He trained his voice in ERWIN SPIVEY "Gordon's Bull" such a way as to give it "Carrying Power." He was the talk of both Armies. He belonged to Gordon's Brigade, which was a terror to the Northern Army. The Yankee Army could recognize the strange voice of Erwin Spivey and they knew that Gordon was after them. When the Yankees would hear him it is said that the soldiers would look at each other and say, "Boys, there is trouble ahead. Gordon's Brigade is on the move and Gordon's Bull is giving the alarm." It is said that many of the weak-kneed Yankees would break ranks and run for their lives when they heard the yell of "Gordon's Bull."
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Captain Jefferson Wilcox
He was born March 20th, 1860. His father was Mark Wilcox and his moth- er was a Lott.
He attended the Southern Medical College in Atlanta, Georgia, and grad- uated with second honor in a class of 37 young men in the CAPTAIN JEFF WILCOX class of 1883. He was the first native of Coffee County to receive a degree of Doctor of Medicine. August 16, 1883, he married Miss Marian Hinson, daughter of James Hinson of Coffee County, Georgia. There were three children born to that mar- riage, Ira E. Wilcox, who is a prominent business man of Birmingham, Alabama, and J. Mark Wilcox, who is a prominent attorney of West Palm Beach, Florida.
On December 1st, 1888, he located in Willacoochee, Georgia, his present location and where he has re- mained ever since. He was elected Mayor of Willa- coochee in 1891. He was elected Representative of Coffee County to the Legislature in 1892. In 1896 he was elected to represent the 5th Senatorial District in the State Senate.
At the outbreak of the war with Spain he recruited a company of volunteers at his own personal expense.
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He tendered their service to the Government and President Mckinley commissioned him Captain and placed him in the 3rd regiment U. S. Vol. Infantry, where he served through the Santiago Campaign and was honorably discharged from service January 10th, 1899.
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