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2994 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANShaving been the mother of seven children, of whom four are living: Margaret, who married G. I. Taggart of Savannah, Georgia, and has two children, Martha Ethel and G. I. Jr.; Greene S., Jr., horn in 1887, and now engaged in the practice of law at Tallahassee, Florida, is married and has oneson, G. S. J. 3d; Jesse 0. who is connected with the Bank of Statesboro, andAnne Taylor, who resides at home.In 1902 Mr. Johnston was again married, being united with Mrs. EmmyeLee, of Statesboro, widow of the late W. II. Lee. Three children have beenborn to this union; John Gibson, born in 1904; George McDonell, born 1907,and Clarence Zeigler, born in 1909. All the children by the last union wereborn at Statesboro, and are now attending the public schools there.Another member of Mr. Johnston's family is Julia Bess Lee, daughterof the present Mrs. Johnston by former marriage.JOHN GORDON ELLISON. A popular young business man and countyofficial of Millen, Georgia, John G. Ellison has accepted those opportunitiesfor usefulness and service which come to the average man, and deservesspecial mention among the generation of progressive younger business menof the state.He was born in Burke County, Georgia, December 2, 1879, a son ofR. J. and Josephine (Herrington) Ellison. Both parents were born inBurke County, and his father was for many years a farmer and planterthere, and for about two years before his death, which occurred in 1900,he operated a saw mill. As a boy of sixteen he enlisted and served duringthe closing months of the war as a Confederate soldier. The mother is stillliving at Waynesboro. Georgia, at the age of sixty-three. Of their ten childrenthree died in infancy and John G. Ellison was the fourth in order of birth.As a boy he attended the Union Academy in Burke County, graduated in1895, and on leaving school spent a couple of years with his father in thesaw mill business. After his father's death he moved to Waynesboro, hadsome experience as clerk in a wholesale house, and since 1903 has beenidentified with business affairs at Millen. For the first three years he wasa bookkeeper, and then engaged in the mercantile business on his ownaccount. In 1914 he was appointed clerk of court, and was regularly electedto that office in March, 1914, for a two-year term. He is a member of theEllison & Week Mercantile'Company and is president of the Millen Furniture Company.He is a past master of the Masonic Lodge, has taken eighteen degreesin the Scottish Rite, and is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias.He is also active in church affairs, being a deacon in the Baptist denominationand superintendent of its Sunday school.On May 24, 1905, at Girard, Georgia, Mr. Ellison married Miss BessieDaniel. Mrs. Ellison died in March, 1909, at Millen, and both her childrendied in infancy. On January 1, 1914, Mr. Ellison married Miss FredrickaFisher at Brunson, South Carolina. They have one child, Elizabeth', bornat Brunson, South Carolina, October 30, 1914.GEN. DAVID R, JONES was born in Orangeburg District, South Carolina,April 5, 1824. After receiving a common school education he was admittedto the United States Military Academy (West Point), as a cadet, July 1,1842, and was assigned to the fourth class. While at West Point he wasespecially distinguished in horsemanship and fencing, and in June, 1846, hegraduated. In July he was appointed brevet second lieutenant of the SecondInfantry, U. S. A.; on November 23. 1846, second lieutenant of the SecondInfantry. He participated in all the important engagements of the Mexicanwar, and for several years afterward was on garrison duty in the Southwest,East and Far West, At the outbreak of the Civil war he had reached the