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2920 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSHarriet, was the sister of Emily; the descendants of Mark A. Cooper and thedescendants of Narcissa Boykin.Judge Branham married Georgia C. Cuyler, daughter of Teleman Cuyler,and niece of R. R. Cuyler of Savannah, Georgia, and of United States Surgeon, Gen. John M. Cuyler of Morristown, New Jersey, on the 20th of April,1861. He entered the Confederate service the day before his marriage as aprivate in the Macon Volunteers, Second Georgia Battalion and was honorably discharged from that service in 1862. He was elected a member of thecity council of Rome, Georgia, in his absence and without opposition andserved as councilman to 1885, and rendered material service in funding thecity's debt. He is much interested in the Rome public schools and has beenone of the trustees of the school for six years. He has been a member of theboard of trustees of the Georgia Sanitarium for six years and was presidentof that body. He is a member of the Baptist Church. He was elected president of the Georgia Bar Association in 1911.Judge Branham's wife died January 13, 1889, leaving two daughters,Mrs. Geo. B. Peniston now of "Washington City and Mrs. D. Sidney Appleton,now of Washington, District of Columbia, each of whom have four children.He is a widower, is in full practice of the law, and leads an active and contented life and is attached to Rome and his friends. He spends his vacationwith his children and grandchildren. He has six great-grandchildren.With him, he says, quoting from a distinguished author, "Life is a joke,why make it a care.''WILLIAM W. MONTGOMERY, whose home was in Augusta and who rose to bjga justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, was a native Georgian; educatedat Georgetown College and the University of Georgia; read law; was admittedto the bar June 13, 1849, and commenced practice in Waynesboro. In 1854he moved from Waynesboro to Augusta, and made his home on "The Hill,"where he resided until his death, January 9, 1897. The year 1860 found himsolicitor-general of the Middle Circuit. In 1872 -he was appointed to a vacancyon the State Supreme bench, which he filled for one term. He then resumedprivate practice at Augusta.RAPHAEL J. MOSES was born at Charleston, South Carolina, January 20,1812; was in the earlier years of his manhood a Charleston merchant; afterward moved to Apalachicola, Florida, where he studied law and was admittedto the bar, and in 1847 was sent as a delegate to the national democratic convention, which met at Baltimore. In 184D he located at Columbus, Georgia,continued his practice and was prominent during the Civil war in thecommissary department of the Confederacy. He lost a fortune in the War ofthe Rebellion. In 1868 and 1877 he served in the Georgia State Legislatureand continued to practice law in Columbus until his retirement in 1885. Hedied at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Robert Samuel, in Brussels, Belgium,October 13, 1893. Mr. Moses had gone abroad in a search for health. He issaid to have executed the last order of the Confederacy in relation to thedisposition of bullion brought south by President Davis.W. H. BENNETT. To some the acquirement of success seems a most difficult and elusive accomplishment, but it will be found that failure usuallyresults from a lack of some of the elements which may be acquired by all,perseverance, energy, industry and resolute purpose. An analysis of the liferecords of successful men, records that- these qualities have been the contributory causes of their prosperity, and such is the case with W. H. Bennett, postmaster and a leading and successful business man of Tifton. His career wasstarted amid discouraging surroundings, for he came of parents in modestcircumstances, and none of the advantages of youth were granted him. He