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3000 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSten years has immersed him in a large volume of law business and real estatetransactions, and he is recognized as one of the young and very progressivecitizens of that section.He was born in Worth County, Georgia, September 18, 1882, a son of W. A.and Susan (Henderson) Story. His father was born in Dooly County andhis mother in Irwin County. The paternal grandparents were W. J. andAdeline (Royal) Story, and the former came from North Carolina as a boywith his parents and located in Dooly County among the pioneers. Duringthe war W. J. Story was a Confederate soldier and during the greatei; partof his active career had a plantation. The maternal grandparents of theAshburn lawyer were J. J. and Susan (Whiddon) Henderson, who wereamong the first settlers of Irwin County, and J. J. Henderson served withthe rank of captain in the Confederate army. He was a stock farmer by occupation. W. A. Story is still living in Worth County at the age of sixty andhas for many years been a farmer and planter in that section. His wife diedin August, 1910, at the age of forty-six.John J. Story is one of two children, and the only one still living. As aboy he attended public schools at Sycamore and Ashburn, spent one year inEmory College, and then entered Mercer University, where he was graduatedLL. B. in 1904 and admitted to the Georgia bar in the same year. Beginningpractice at Ashburn, he soon showed his ability in his early case's, and for anumber of years has handled a substantial general practice together with aconsiderable real estate business. Before entering college he taught schoolone term, and has usually depended upon his own faculties to advance himin life.Mr. Story has served as solicitor of the city court at Ashburn, and is nowcity clerk and treasurer, an office he has attended to for the past eight years.He is a democrat, a member of the Turner County Bar Association, is aRoyal Arch Mason, and also an Odd Fellow.On June 30, 1914, at Tiffin, Ohio, he married Miss Rhoda Van Buskirk,daughter of Don and Cora Van Buskirk, a well known family of Tiffin, Ohio.M. J. CROCKETT, M. D. The dean of the Worth County medical fraternity,Dr. M.- J. Crockett has resided in this section for forty years, having comehere prior to the time that Worth County was formed from Dooly County.At that time he was a young medical practitioner looking for a location inwhich his abilities would be appreciated, and in this thinly-settled communityhe found the opportunity which he sought. Today he is one of the leadingmedical men of the county, a. highly respected member of his profession, anda man to whom honors have come in profusion.Doctor Crockett is not a native son of the Southland, but as two-thirds ofhis life has been passed here he feels himself a thorough Georgian. He wasborn near Logansport, Indiana, April 24, 184:5, and is a son of David andLorasia (Smith) Crockett, natives of Ohio, who moved to Indiana as youngpeople and were there married. Their subsequent lives were passed in theHoosier State, in a farming community, and there the father, a well-to-do andindustrious agriculturist passed away in 1853, at the age of forty-five years,the mother surviving until 1908, when she passed away at the remarkable ageof ninety-two years. They were the parents of five children', of whom M. J.was the fourth in order of birth.M. J. Crockett received his early education in the country schools in thevicinity of his father's Indiana farm, and early evidenced an inclination toenter professional life. After some preparation, he enrolled as a student atthe Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, and subsequently he transferred his membership to the Miami Medical College, of the same city, wherehis degree of Doctor of Medicine was obtained in 1870. For a short periodthereafter, the young physician practiced with his preceptor in Logans-