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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 2805ber of the Georgia Legislature and was a prominent factor and a leader inpolitical affairs in Burke County.Jesse P. Green, father of Judge Green, was the younger of the two sonswho attained to years of'maturity, and his brother, Moses Patterson Green,fully maintained the family prestige in the field of agricultural operations,having been the owner of. a large plantation and a force of slaves prior tothe Civil war and having continued his activities in Burke County until hisdeath, in 1870, at which time he was fifty years of age. Jesse P. Green waslikewise an honored and influential citizen and representative planter of hisnative county, but his life was cut short when he was in the very prime ofhis young manhood. He died April 18, 1864, at Lake City, Florida, where hesuccumbed to an, attack of pneumonia, his age at the time of his demisehaving been twenty-four years. Of his three children Judge Green is thesecond; Clara, the third, died at the age of eight years; and Jesse P., the firstborn, is one of the prominent planters and highly honored citizens of BurkeCounty, Judge Green himself never having severed his allegiance to the basicindustry of agriculture and being still the owner arid operator of a fine plantation which is eligibly situated in the immediate vicinity of Waynesboro, buthe maintains his home at Waynesboro and, as a matter of course, his headquartersas a county official. Mrs. Mary Jane (Gresham) Green long survived the husband of her youth and eventually became the wife of Dr. GreenB. Powell, who was one of the leading physicians and surgeons of BurkeCounty at the time of his death, which occurred in Burke County, his widowsurviving until she had attained to the age of sixty-six years, dying November24, 1905. The only child of this union was Dr. Louis B. Powell, who was atalented physician and surgeon, who practiced his profession in both the cities'of Atlanta and Macon and who was a resident of Waynesboro at the timeof his death.Judge Green acquired his early education in the public schools of Waynesboro and after completing the curriculum of the high school he attendedMercer University, where he acquired his higher academic education. Afterleaving college he gave his close attention to the work and management ofhis homestead plantation until 1896, when he removed with his family toWaynesboro, where he has since maintained his home and where the people ofthe city and county have demanded much of his time and attention in thecapacity of a public official. He has served as a member of the city council, ascity treasurer, as a member of the board of trustees of Waynesboro Academy,and finally, since 1909, as ordinary of the county, a position in which he hasbeen retained by successive re-elections three terms. He has been a recognized counselor and leader in popular sentiment and action in his nativecounty, and every trust reposed in him has been held inviolable. As ordinaryof the county he has been instrumental in effecting the amicable settlementof many estates and in reconciling contesting heirs without recourse to litigation. Popular confidence in his fairness, his integrity and his judgment havee him in his official capacity, as well as in his private relations, a resourcefactorin maintaining peace and good will among his fellow men and alsoin saving to many large expenditures that litigation would have involved.Thus it may readily be understood that as ordinary of the county he is emphatically the right man in the right place.Judge Green is affiliated with the Kappa Alpha college fraternity, and theRoyal Arcanum, is a stalwart and effective advocate of the cause of thedemocratic party, and his abiding Christian faith is shown not only in hisdaily walk in life but also in his active service in the Methodist EpiscopalChurch, South, of which both he and his wife are devout members and inwhich he has served as steward for many years.In May, 1887, was solemnized the marriage of Judge Green to Miss AnnieLou Cox, who was born and reared in Burke County and who is a daughter