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3106 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSerty interests in his home city and county. In the Masonic fraternity JudgeThurman has received the Knights Templars degrees and is identified alsowith the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is anable and uncompromising advocate of the principles of the democratic partyand both he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church,South, the while their circle of friends is limited only by that of theiracquaintances.At Turin, Coweta County, on the 21st of June, 1888, was solemnized themarriage of Judge Thurman to Miss Vida Arnell, who was born and rearedin that county and who is a daughter of John Giles Arnell and Mary Elizabeth(Page) Arnell, the former of whom is deceased and the latter of whom stillresides in the old home at Turin. John G. Arnell was a student in the militaryacademy at Manton, Georgia, at the time when the Civil war was precipitated,and he promptly made good his escape from the institution in order to enlistas a youthful soldier of the Confederacy, his service having continued duringpractically the entire period of the war. He was one of the honored and influential citizens of Coweta County at the time of his death. Judge and Mrs.Thurman became the parents of six children, all of whom were born in JasperCounty: Lovic Haddon, who was born July 1, 1901, was the youngest childand his death occurred January 1, 1913. Margaret Elizabeth, who was bornMay 29, 1889, is the wife of Guy C. Lane, of Jacksonville, this state, and theyhave one child, Guy C., Jr., born January 24, 1914. John Benjamin, who wasborn August 23, 1891, was graduated in the Monticello High School, weddedMiss Para Roughton, of Jefferson County, and they reside in this state. AlbertSidney, Jr., who remains at the parental home, was born February 23, 1894,and is now a student in the Georgia Military Academy. David Richardson,who was born August 19,1896, is a student in the high school at Mansfield, as amember of the class of 1916. Veda, who is a student in the Monticello HighSchool, was born March 14, 1899.JOHN W. FIELD, M. D. During the past five years the name of Dr. JohnW. Field has been increasingly identified with the best tenets of medical andsurgical science in the Town of Cornelia and the surrounding country. Bymany of the longest established and most conservative families his skill, resource and obliging temperament have come to be regarded as indispensable,and there exist many who are indebted to him for their restoration to usefulness, health and happiness. Doctor Field is a native son of Georgia, bornMarch 22, 1873, in Cherokee County, his parents being Logan and Minerva(Kennett) Field.The original ancestor of this branch of the Field family in America was"William Field, who came to this country from England some time prior tothe Revolutionary war, in which conflict he served in the American army andthrough bravery and faithful service won promotion to the rank of colonel ofhis regiment of North Carolinian troops. From North Carolina the familymoved to South Carolina where was born Logan Field, who was a child whenbrought to Georgia by his parents. Here he was educated and reared to manhood in Cherokee County, and after his marriage to Minerva Kennett, whowas also born in South Carolina, settled down to agricultural pursuits, becoming a well known and prosperous planter. The greater part of his activecareer was passed in Cherokee County, but in 1905 he retired from his laborsand moved to Gordon County, Georgia, where he now resides at the age ofeighty-four years, in his comfortable home. He is a veteran of the Civil war,in which he served throughout the entire-period as a Confederate soldier, andsome of the military spirit and ardor of his illustrious ancestor must havecome down to him, for his record as a soldier was a most excellent one. Mrs.Field, who was brought to Georgia as a child and here reared and educated,