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2922 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANShere, stamping Mr. Bennett as a man of much official executive ability andas one of the most popular officials Tifton has known. This is one of thefinest postoffices for a city o£ the size of Tifton in the state, the edifice havingbeeu completed in August, 1014. Under Mr. Bennett's jurisdiction are fourrural carriers, one motor carrier and three city carriers, five clerks and theassistant postmaster.Mr. Bermett is a member of the Masons and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and with his family belongs to the Methodist EpiscopalChurch,On June 7, 1903, Mr. Bennett was married in AVorth County, Georgia, toMiss Sarah Catherin Warren, -a. member of a well known and highly esteemedfamily of Worth County, and daughter of J. A. arid Martha Warren, a prominent planter of that locality. They are the parents of'two children: Eleanor,born October 9, 1906; and William Franklin, born March 5, 1909, and bothattending school at Tifton.HON. C. "W. CRAVES. Since the year 1908, Hon. C. W. Graves has beenthe incumbent of the office of ordinary at Tiftoii, Tift County, anj} duringthe period of his official service has established a record for judicial rectitude, dignity, impartiality and energy that entitles him.to a position amongthe foremost men who have held public office in this locality. His career isillustrative of the rewards to he gained through a life of probity and industry,for he commenced life with only ordinary advantages and the success whichhe has attained has come through his own efforts.Judge Graves was born in Thomas County, in the southern part of Georgia,in March, 1818, and ia a son of Joel S. and Eunice (Wooden) Graves. Hisparents, natives of New York State, emigrated to Florida, and then to Georgia, and settled at an early period in Thomas County. Joel S. Graves was aplanter by vocation, a man of industry and strong character, who accumulateda satisfying property through energy and honorable dealing and in later lifebecame a minister of the Presbyterian faith. He died in Worth County,Georgia, whence lie had removed in his later years, in 1897, being seventyeightyears of a#e. The mother had passed away in that county two yearsbefore, when seventy years of age. They were the parents o£ eight children,of whom C. "W. was the sixth in order of birth.C. W. Graves attended the public schools of Thomas County as a boyand spent his youth in assisting his father in the duties pertaining to theoperation of the homestead plantation. As a young man he turned his attention to .mercantile lines, in which he continued to be engaged for some years,but eventually returned to farming and accumulated a good property. Priorto the lor ma lion of Tift County, he served in the capacity of tax receiver forWorth County for a period of six years, and in 1908 was elector! ordinary.The able manner in which he discharged his duties during his first termof office led to two re-elections, and the confidence in which he is held by thepeople was demonstrated at the last election, when he had no opposition forthe position. In the hands of such public servants the individual and thecommunity may feel that every interest is safe and that law will be administered with the broadest intelligence and with a keen regard for equity. A manof unimpeachable character, of strong intellect, patience, urbanity, and athorough understanding of human nature and human rights, Judge Gravesbrings to the discharge of his duties the very highest qualifications, and hisrecord as ordinary has been in harmony with his record in business andagricultural, circles, distinguished by unswerving integrity and probity.Politically, the judge has always been an advocate of the highest principlesand aims of the democratic party. His fraternal connection is with theMasons, and his religious affiliation with the Methodist Episcopal Chureli,South.