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2940 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSas follows: Ezekiel James, now major in regular army of infantry, born in1872; Elizabeth Ann, now Mrs. George D. Godard, whose husband is a member of the industrial department of the State Educational Board; Mrs. F. B.Pickett, wife of Dr. F. D. Pickett, of Ty Ty; Mrs. A. E. Nelson, of Birmingham, Alabama; Thomas V. Williams, who was born in 1886 and is living atCharlotte, North Carolina.Doctor Williams was fifth in order of birth, and as a boy he spent histime in school and at home at Ty Ty, and in Tifton and Gordon Institute,Barnesville, Georgia. After thirteen years of general educational training, hespent three years in the medical department of the University of Georgia atAugusta, where he was graduated M. D. in 1902. After considerable experience in the Post-Graduate Hospital at Augusta, Dr. Williams came, wellrecommended and competent, to begin his practice at Vienna, where he nowenjoys a fine clientage.For the past ten years he has served as county physician, and is also sec-. retary of the County Medical Society, and a member of the Southern andState Medical societies, and the American Medical Association. Fraternally,he is identified with the Knight Templar Masons and the Mystic Shrine, andin politics is a democrat. In a business way he is a director of the FirstNational Bank of Vienna, and was one of its organizers.J. M. BUSBEE. A lawyer whose position in Dooly County is one of successful attainments and long and varied experience, J. M. Busbee is a nativeof that section of Georgia and both in his profession and in citizenship hasexemplified those ideals and qualities which are most valued in any vocationand are a source of strength and good to a community.He was born in Dooly County, July 2, 1871, a son of G. W. and Elizabeth(Tucker) Busbee. His parents were both natives of Georgia and were married in September, I860. G. W. Busbee was for many years an active memberof the Dooly County Bar. He held various public offices of trust and at one' time was mayor of Vienna. However, he gave most of his time to his privatepractice. At the beginning of the war he was in educational work and subsequently was appointed a guard to look after fugitive soldiers and deserters.His death occurred at Vienna, May 14, 1915, at the age of seventy-four, andhis wife survived less than a year, passing away February 22, 1916, agedseventy:four.The seventh of twelve children, J. M. Busbee had th« privileges and advantages of the common schools of Dooly County and of Vienna, and entered thelaw after a thorough course of reading under his father. He was admitted tothe bar in September, 1893, and since that date has been in continuous practice at Vienna. He was associated as a partner with his father until the latter's death. Mr. Busbee though a loyal democrat has never sought anyofficial preferment, his ambition having been to win a modest distinction asa lawyer and to serve faithfully and well his clients. For the past fifteenyears he has been local counsel for the Georgia Southern Railroad and is alsocounsel for the Bank of Vienna, for the Bank of Lilly and for other financialinstitutions in the county.On August 11, 1912, at Pineview, Wilcox County, Georgia, he marriedMrs. Ola (Moore) Gammage, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Moore, a highlyrespected family of Pineview. They are the parents of two children: Elizabeth Frances, born at Vienna in 1914, and Lucy Elvin, born in November,1915. Loys Gammage, * child by Mrs. Busbee's first, marriage, was bornMarch 30, 1907.COL. HANSFORD D. D. TWIGGS was born in Barnwell, South Carolina, onMarch 25, 1837, and was reared chiefly on his father's plantation in RichmondCounty. He entered the Georgia Military Institute at Marietta, was grad-