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3164 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSPie is very popular in official, public and social circles, and has hosts offriends who have watched his career with interest.Mr. Webb was married May 25, 1910, at Tifton, to Miss Effie OpheliaMedford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Medford, and member of afamily that is well known and highly esteemed in Cherokee, Walton, andBerrien counties. They are the parents of three children, namely: MaryRuth, born April 16, 1911; Henry D., Jr., born September 19, 1912; andEffie Louise, born May 6, 1915, who died September 21, 1916.HON. HENRY LOWNDES PATTERSON. On the roll of Georgia's judiciarythere is to be found no more honored, esteemed or beloved name than thatof Hon. Henry Lowiides Patterson, of Cummings, judge of the SuperiorCourt of the Blue Ridge Circuit. A member of the Georgia bar since 1869and of the bench since 1911, he has exemplified in his daily connection withthe law a devotion to its highest ideals, while in discharging the duties ofthe citizen in private life he is as intolerant of misrepresentation, chicaneryand fraud as he would be in meeting such equivocal elements in the courseof professional duty. Few men have honored their profession in greaterdegree; few have been more highly regarded by its members.Judge Patterson was born at Lowndesville, on the Rocky River, nearAbbeville Court House, Abbeville County, South Carolina, November 28,1844, and is a son of Josiah and Mary (MacNeal) Patterson. The fatherwas born at the old ancestral home, in the same house in which JudgePatterson was born, and there received good educational advantages andwas reared to sturdy young manhood. In 1840 an uncle of Judge Patterson,Joseph C. Patterson, came to Georgia and purchased the old Labor Institute,at Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County. One year later Josiah Patterson cameto Lawrenceville to take charge of the slaves who worked on the plantationbelonging to the institution, which was later turned into a literary school,with Prof. Joseph C. Patterson as dean. "While residing here, Josiah Patterson met at a Presbyterian meeting, held two miles from Lawrenceville,Miss Mary MacNeal, who was born in Decatur County, Georgia, a daughterof Daniel MacNeal.. Their marriage followed in 1841. Both Josiah andJoseph C. Patterson were highly educated men, and the former remainedat the institution for many years. He moved with his family to Cummings,Forsyth County, Georgia, prior to the war between^ the states, and at theoutbreak of that struggle offered his services to the Confederacy, enlisting,in July, 1861, in Company E, Fourteenth Georgia Regiment. At the battleof Spottsylvania Court House, May 12, 1864, Mr. Patterson was woundedand was being carried to the rear on a litter, when a second bullet struck,him and killed him. Mrs. Patterson died in Cummings, in 1912, in the housewhich had been provided for her by her husband before he entered the army,being eighty-seven years of age. There were five children born to them:Cornelia, who at the time of her father's enlistment, in July, 1861, beganto share the responsibilities of the family support by teaching in the schoolwhich her father left, has continued to teach in schools in Northern Georgiaever since, and is now seventy-three years of age and one of the most widelybeloved ladies in this part of the state; Judge Henry Lowndes, of this review;Samuel, who is clerk of the Municipal Court at Atlanta; Daniel, an attorneyat law of Patterson,- and Anna, who is the widow of James Bettes, of Cummings, Georgia.Henry L. Patterson had received the benefits of a good education whenthe Civil war broke out, and was eighteen years of age when he left hometo take up arms in the ranks of the Confederacy. On December 1, 1862, heenlisted in Company E, Fourteenth Regiment, Georgi^, Infantry, his father'sregiment and company, and had been in the service only twelve days, when,December 13, 1862, he was shot through the head at the battle of Fredericks-