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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3161turned to his native county, where with equal determination and constancyhe turned his attention once more to winning the victories which peace everhath in store, and- like so many others of the youth of the devastated South, hedid all in his power to revive and vitalize its prostrate industries. Judge Hillgave close attention to agricultural pursuits for more than thirty years andremained on his homestead farm until 1896, when he was elected ordinary ofWarren County and necessarily transferred his residence to Warrenton, thejudicial center of the county. The efficiency of his service and the high estimate placed upon his administration need no further voucher than the statement that by successive re-elections he has continued the honored incumbentof this important county office during the long intervening period of nearlytwenty years. As may well be understood, Judge Hill is unfaltering in hisallegiance to the democratic party, and no citizen of Warren County is better known or is more securely entrenched in popular confidence and good will.He is actively affiliated with the United Confederate Veterans, was formerlyidentified with the Roya} Arcanum, and both he and his wife hold membershipin the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.Judg'e If ill returned from the war to find his father's home destroyed andthe entire farm devastated, so that' the responsibilities and burdens which hevoluntarily assumed were of formidable order. With patience, incessant application and good judgment he worked vigorously in the restorative of the pristine conditions of the home farm, and he assisted his father in thus makinggood the ravages inflicted by the long and weary conflict that brought desolation in its train but that failed to conquer the indomitable spirit of the truesons of the Southland. From conditions of adversity he thus worked his wayforward to the goal of independence and prosperity, and such are the menwho not only win but also deserve success.In October, 1868, Judge Hill wedded Miss Amanda Wright, a daughter ofthe late Stephen L. Wright, of Warren County, and she died in December ofthe following year, being survived by an only child, Stephen P., who was bornin 1869 and who is now employed as bookkeeper for one of the representativebusiness firms in the City of Atlanta: he is married but has no children. InDecember, 1871, was solemnized the marriage of Judge Hill to Miss ElizabethWright, a sister of his first wife, and they have three children: Mrs. Henry K.Honise is a resident of the City of Nashville, Tennessee, and her two childrenare Elizabeth and Helen. Miss Lucille Hill remains at the parental home.Mrs. Benjamin T. Patillo resides at Vidalia, Montgomery County, and herone child is a daughter, Maddee.HON. HENRY H. LITTLE. One of the old and honored Georgia familiesis that of Little, which has long been identified with Hancock County. Thisfamily has distinguished itself both in peace and in war, and has furnishedmany representatives to the professions and to industrial and civic affairs.One who added laurels to the family name by his career in the bench andbar was the late Henry H. Little, who while serving his second term as ordinary of Hancock County died at Macon, June 23, 1916. He was laid to restwith the honors merited by his career at Sparta, his old home, on the 30thday of June. At the time of his death he was almost forty-seven years ofage. He was born at Sparta, Georgia, July 3, 1869, a son of Frank L. andMary E. (Sasnett) Little. His .father, who was born in Harris County,Georgia, in 1838, had the advantages of old and worthy family connections,and completed a liberal education, graduating in 1858 from the law department of Emory College. He at once located at Sparta for practice. Hisprofessional experience had hardly begun when the war broke out, and hebecame a Confederate soldier from Hancock County. His first term ofenlistment expired in 1863, and he then raised a company and first servedwith the rank of captain and later as adjutant. On P many a battlefield in