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2806 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSof Patterson and Thcone Allona (Fulcher) Cox, who continued their residence in Burke County until their death. Judge and Mrs. Green became theparents of seven children, all of whom are living, namely: Hugh, Louise,Ruth, Walter Gresham, Jr., Julian Cox, Annie, and Theone Allona. Theolder son, Hugh, is engaged in mercantile business in his native county;Louise is the wife of William G. Johnsto'n, of Waynesboro; and the otherchildren still remain members of the happy family circle in the parental home.HON. A. J. CROVATT. A former judge of the Glynn County Court atBrunswick, Mr. Crovatt is now one of the oldest attorneys practising in theBrunswick Circuit. He has represented the interests of important litigantsin this district for fully thirty-five years. His work has brought him a highstanding- as a lawyer and as a public official and citizen 'he is one of theleading men of Southern Georgia.Born at Charleston, South Carolina, June 2, 1859, he is a son of Williamand' Theatra (Williams) Crovatt. His parents were both born in SouthCarolina, and his. father was a Charleston business man. During the war heenlisted as a private in the Confederate army, and after the war he continuedto live in South Carolina until 1869, when he removed to Brunswick, Georgia,which was his home until his death at the age of sixty-five. His wife died atBrooklyn, New York, in 1910, at the age of sixty-five.The older of two children, Judge Crovatt as a boy attended the TarrantAcademy at Charleston, and also Charleston College. He finished the sophomore year in the latter institution and in 1880 was graduated from the Carolina Military Institute, now the Citadel, at Charleston. He belongs to thechapter of the Sigina Alpha Epsilon fraternity of the Military Institute.In the meantime he had already determined upon the law as his profession,and after study in the office of Andrew J. Smith of Brunswick he was ad-Order of Elks, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Knights of Pythias,at Brunswick except when official duties prevented.For nine years he has filled the important office of judge of the CountyCourt of Glynn County and to his judicial office he brought a rare combination of sound legal learning and mature judgment. His first political officewas as county solicitor, which he filled in 1882. He has also been mayor ofBrunswick three'times, in 1884-85 and again in 1903. He was president of theBrunswick Board of Education, has served as chairman of the DemocraticExecutive Committee, is a former director of banks and other local enterprises,is counsel for the Jekyl Island Club and several railways, and is a member ofthe County, State and American Bar Associations. Fraternally his relationsare with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and ProtectiveOrder of Elks, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Knights of Pythias.His church is the Episcopal.In 1880 at Brunswick he married Miss Mary Lee Schlatter, daughter ofCol. Charles L. Schlatter. Colonel Schlatter was a very prominent railroadman both in the North and in the South, and formerly served as chief engineer and vice president of the Brunswick & Western, now part of the AtlanticCoast Line. Judge Crovatt and wife have two sons. William Cecil, born atBrunswick, a graduate of the public schools, finished his education in EmoryCollege and is now a member of the United States Marine Corps. AlfredHayne, the younger son, graduated from Emory College and Mercer University Law School in 1904, and is now in active practice at Brunswick, wherehe is serving as solicitor of the City Court. He is a member of the SigmaAlpha Epsilon college fraternity. There is also one daughter, Mary LeeCrovatt, who is graduated from the Lee School for Girls at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is now living in New York City.JAMES A. STOTHART, M. D. In point of years of active service, Dr. JamesA. Stothart is one of the oldest physicians at Savannah. His boyhood was