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2870 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSedge. He has made hmself an active factor in civic affairs in his home stateand county and is a leader in democratic politics.Born at Villa Rica, Carroll County, Georgia, July 4, 1876, he is a son ofBenjamin J. and Emily (Moseley) Teal. His parents are now living at VillaRica, his father being a retired planter. Benjamin J. Teal was born in NorthCarolina and was brought to Georgia when a child. The paternal grandparents were William and Judah (Porter) Teal, the former a native of"Wadesboro, North Carolina, who moved to Georgia in 1848. The grandparents spent the rest of their days in Northwest Georgia, where WilliamTeal died in Corrall County in 1895 at the age of ninety and his wife in 1905also aged ninety. The maternal grandfather William Moseley, was born inCoweta County, Georgia, and married a Miss Stamps, also a native of CowetaCounty. William Moseley served four years in the Confederate army, anddied in Coweta County in his thirty-eighth year. The maternal great-grandfather Moseley was a Tory governor of New Jersey just previous to theRevolutionary war. All the early ancestors were Southern planters. TheTeals emigrated from Holland to Virginia during the eighteenth century, andfrom Virginia they moved into North Carolina in 1777. A considerable number of the family are still living in and about Wadesboro, North Carolina.Charles B. Teal was one of seven children. William M., the oldest, is areal estate man at Palacios, Texas; Olin Teal, is engaged in the real estatebusiness at Dallas, Texas; Edna E. Teal is a missionary with the MissionaryBaptist Church at Yang Chow, China; Bernice is the widow of ClevelandCarnes, and lives at Villa Rica, Georgia; Purman Teal, is a fruit grower andshipper at Santa Paula, California; Jessie, wife of Russell Claghorn, a merchant at Villa Rica.Charles Benjamin Teal received his early education in Carroll County,the State Normal at Athens and for two years was a successful teacher inPolk, Carroll and Paulding counties. In 1902 he entered Grant Universityof Tennessee in the law department and was graduated LL. B. with the classof 1904. After his admission to the Georgia bar he practiced one year in hisnative town of Villa Rica but in 1905 removed to Fitzgerald, where he hasrapidly come into prominence as a successful attorney. For ten years he waslocal representative both in a business way and as attorney for the CalvertMortgage Company of Baltimore, Maryland. This company has extensiveinvestments in South Georgia. On October 9, 1916, Mr. Teal was appointedsenior land appraiser for the Interstate Commerce Commission and is nowengaged in field service, his duties being to appraise railroad rights of wayunder the act of 1913.On December 27, 1913, at Fitzgerald Mr. Teal married Miss Eunice Daniel,daughter of George A. Daniel of Darien, Mclntosh County, Georgia. Herfather is now deceased and her mother resides at Fitzgerald. Mr. and Mrs.Teal are active members of the Baptist Church, and fraternally he is affiliatedwith the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World.JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES. With all of consistency may be reproduced in thishistory, and that without formal indications of quotation at any definitejuncture, the following appreciative tribute and estimate, which gives significant honor to one who has honored Georgia by his distinguished ability andachievement.To have attained a recognized position as the foremost orator of anysection of our common country would be an enviable distinction. To havewon worthily and worn modestly that distinction in the South, where socialtraditions and that indefinable something in the very atmosphere makenaturally for the oratorical temperament, is to have secured a permanentplace among the great orators not only of America but also of the world.That John Temple Graves occupies the foremost rank among the orators