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3162 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSGeorgia and South Carolina this company proved its valor. Though in thewar until the close of hostilities, Captain Little was continuously at the postof duty, but escaped serious injuries and returned to his home with a careerof exceptional usefulness awaiting him. For many years he was a leader ofthe Sparta bar, and by merit was elevated to the bench and for thirty-fiveyears served as judge of the County Court. For four years he was judge ofthe City Court,Early in his career he married Mary E. Sasnett, who was born in 1839 inHancock County, Georgia. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversaryin 1909. Of their eleven children, seven reached maturity, and the followingare still living: J. Frank, a government official living at Washington, District of Columbia; William J., a physician at Macon, Georgia; Mrs. R. P.McAroy, of Macon; and Y. A. Little, a physician attached to the staff of theState Sanitarium.During his boyhood the late Henry H. Little attended school at Sparta,prepared for a collegiate career, and from 1887 to. 1891 was a student inEmory -College, where he completed the course with the degree A. B. Aninterval of school teaching followed, and he then entered the law departmentof the University of Georgia, where he was graduated in 1899. From thatyear until his recent death he was an active member of the Sparta bar, andin that time built up a very large practice and was connected with some ofthe most important litigation in the county.Public affairs always claimed his interests and- attention, and even as ayouth he was an eager and intelligent listener to the discussions of affairsbetween men of prominence in his father's law office or in the family home.Thus he was practically cradled in the principles of the democratic party.In 1902 he was elected a member of the State Legislature, in which he servedtwo successive terms. In 1908 the people of Hancock County honored himby election as ordinary and he was re-elected in 1912. Death found himat his post administering the many delicate and important duties of hisoffice with a rare fidelity and singular patience and impartiality.Judge Little is survived by Mrs. Littk and two daughters. April 30,1907, he married Miss Sarah J. Bowen. Mrs. Little is a daughter of Capt.J. F. Bowen, who was a gallant officer in the Confederate army. The twodaughters of their marriage are: Margery Elizabeth, born September 9, 1909;and Sarah Frances,'born April 28, 1911. Judge Little was an active memberof the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which Mrs. Little is a member. Hewas a Mason and Knight of Pythias, -belongs to the college fraternity ChiPhi, of the University of Georgia, and was a man who not only made influential connections in professional and business affairs, but also hadthe faculty of winning and retaining friendships among the best of hiscontemporaries.HENRY D. WEBB. One of the most popular officials of Tift County is HenryD. Webb, who since March, 1908, has occupied the position of county clerk.Prior to that time he had been variously engaged, in farming, in merchandising and as a clerk in the Tifton postoffice, and has established a reputationfor energy, industry and fidelity that stamped him as one qualified for publicservice. His subsequent record in the county clerk's office has demonstratedthat no mistake was made when he was placed in charge of its importantduties.Mr. Webb was born December 30, 1879, in that part of Berrien Countywhich is now included in Tift County, Georgia, and is a son of W. W. andSarali Catherine (Sinclair) Webb, natives of this state. W. W. Webb wasborn in 1839 and grew up amid agricultural surroundings, and when he embarked upon his own career chose the pursuits of the soil as an outlet for hisambitions and energies. On March 4, 1863, he enlisted at Vienna, Georgia,