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2900 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSElks, the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World, and is a member of the Baptist Church.On October 7, 1908, at Tifton, he married Miss Estora Timmons. Mrs.Scarboro was born January 20, 1887, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W.Timmons. Her father is a well known business man and farmer and has extensive interests in the naval stores industry. To their union have been borntwo children: Whitfield Timmons Searboro, born at Atlanta, July 2, 1911;and Prank Harrison Scarboro, born at Tifton, December 3, 1914.CHARLES L. C. THOMAS. It is to such vital and resourceful men of affairsas Mr. Thomas that Georgia is indebted for the progressiveness that is herein evidence in the twentieth century and that is proving the commonwealth'sconsistent claim to the title of Empire State of the South. Mr. Thomas hasshown great initiative and constructive ability and is known and honoredas the foremost figure in the furtherance of the industrial and commercialactivities of the vital little City of Madison, judicial center of Morgan County,where he is president of the Morgan County Bank; president of the MadisonOil Mills, of which corporation he was the organizer; and secretary and treasurer of the Madison Fertilizer Company, in the organization of which he wasthe dominating figure. His energy and versatility have found opportunitiesfor effective application along other normal lines of enterprise and he is aman who thinks, plans and achieves, the while the course which he pursuesis ever along the line of steadfast integrity, so that he merits and commandsunqualified popular confidence and good will. As a loyal and liberal citizenand a moving force in the business life of Morgan County he is speciallyeligible for representation in this history. Further interest attaches to hiscareer by reason of the fact that he became dependent upon his own resourceswhen a mere youth and has been in the most significant sense the architect ofhis own fortunes. He was a child of about two years at the time of his father'sdeath, and thus it was but natural that he was early called upon to facegreater responsibilities than the average youth of his generation.Charles Lewis Clark Thomas was born at Clarksville, Polk County, Tennessee, on the 10th of October, 1875, and is a son of Charles Lewis Thomasand Mary Jones (Pratt) Thomas, the latter of whom was born at Tallahassee,Florida, a daughter of Rev. George W. Pratt, who was graduatedin Mercer University at Macon, Georgia, and who was long in active serviceas a representative member of the clergy of the Methodist Episcopal Church,South. Charles L. Thomas was born at Bellview, Kentucky, and he died inLeesburg, Florida, in 1877, at the early age of thirty-five years. He was anewspaper man by vocation and at the time of the Civil war he became a loyalsoldier of the Confederacy. In one of the numerous engagements at FortDonelson, Tennessee, he was captured by the enemy, and for some time thereafter he was held as a Federal prisoner of war at Alton, Illinois, his rigorousservice as a soldier and the confinement which he endured after his capturehaving shattered his health and virtually caused his untimely death. Ofthe two children the subject of this review is the younger, and the elder isGeorge.Pratt Thomas, who is now superintendent of the Armour fertilizermanufacturing plant at Jacksonville, Florida. The widowed mother eventually contracted a second marriage, becoming the wife of Algernon E. Caldwell,and they now reside at Asheville, North Carolina.Charles L. C. Thomas received but meager educational advantages in hisboyhood, as is evident when it is stated that he attended school only until hewas twelve years of age, from which time forward he became largely dependent upon his own resources. While still a mere boy he found employmentin a fertilizer plant at Port Royal, South Carolina, and with the passingyears, through this and other associations, he gained a comprehensive andaccurate knowledge of the varied details of this line of industrial enterprise.