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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 2885in his home city and county. Financially he is vice president and directorof the National Bank of Tifton. Fraternally Doctor Hendricks is affiliatedwith the Royal Arch Masons and with the Woodmen of the World.On December 21, 1898, at Ty Ty, Georgia, he married Miss May Dell,daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Dell of Ty Ty. To their marriage havebeen born three children: Margaret, born in 1902 at Tifton, and Louise, bornin 1906, are both in school in that city, while the youngest is William HartridgeHendricks, Jr., born in 1911. '. VALENTINE L. STANTON is a business man of broad experience and has formany years been a factor in the life of Waycross. It will be recalled that hewas the prime mover in inaugurating the first "Prosperity Week" at Waycrossin 1915, and the great success of that carnival at the beginning hascaused it to. be continued as a permanent institution of the city.He represents a very old and prominent family of the South. He wasborn at Charleston, South Carolina, May 26, 1869, a son of Valentine andCatherine Rebecca (Parry) Stanton.Napoleon Bonaparte sent Gen. Nicholas Pruietzer (Proutier) with theNinetieth French Regiment to -Saint Domingue and it was there he met Mile.Raingeard. whom he married, and who is in lineal descent to Valentine Stanton, Sr. Through this line comes the connection by marriage with the Coppees,(pronounced Copay) and David Byrdie Mitchell, who was governor of 'Georgia 1811-1815, and in line with William Bacon Stevens of Savannah,Georgia, and William Stevens, Bishop of Pennsylvania. The famous Frenchpoet Francois Coppee is also in lineal descent with this family.Valentine Stanton, Sr., is descended from Jacques de L'Hommaca whowas born in Austria in the eighteenth century and who in the latter part ofthat century came to the French Colony of St. Domingue. Jacques marriedElizabeth de Lorme, the eldest daughter of her parents who came fromFrance. After their marriage they lived on their plantation a few milesfrom Aux Cayes on the South coast. She died at Savannah, Georgia. Theywere the parents of thirteen children. Of these Nicolette Pauline first married in 1790 Jean Francoise Raingeard de Lavillate, who was born in 1763,the son of a lawyer of Nantes, France. In 1799 they settled in San Domingoon a coffee plantation near the river La Cue, seven leagues from Aux Cayes,where he died in 1802.Thus about the close of the eighteenth century the members of this prominent European stock were transplanted to the snores of America. ValentineStanton, Sr., was born October 10, 1830. He died at Savannah, Georgia,January 29, 1865, and was buried there at Laurel Grove Cemetery underdirect orders from General Sherman who was present at the funeral servicesand who had recently occupied that city with the Federal troops. ValentineStanton, Sr., during the war was a coast guard in the Confederate army stationed at Savannah. In earlier years he was engaged in the printing andlithographing business and lived in Charleston, South Carolina, being in business with Walker-Evans-Cogswell of that city. He afterward removed fromCharleston to Savannah. By his marriage to Catherine Rebecca Parry, Valentine Stanton, Sr., was the father of five children: Valentine, born October 8,1855, and died October 10, 1855; Franklin Lebby, the poet, born February22, 1857; Valentine Legare, born May 26, 1869; Henry Stokes, born in April,1861; and Burrell Sanders, born in 1863 and died January 30, 1865.Valentine L. Stanton received his early education partly in South Carolina and partly at Savannah, Georgia. He had to make his own way in theworld, the Civil war leaving the family stripped of slaves and other property,and on first coming to Waycross he was in the railroad business in the employof the Brunswick and Albany Railroad for several years. He then engagedin the drug business, which he followed for ten years, and since then has