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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3207HENRY JACKSON BEEWTON. Probably Henry J. Brewton is most widelyknown in Tattnall County as clerk of the Superior and. City courts of Reidsville.However, his home has been in that county nearly all his life, his isone of the old and honored family names there, and his career has been successfully identified with merchandising and other lines of activity.Born in Tattnall County September 25, 1874, he is a son of the late Jonathan B. Brewton, who was born in Tattnall County January 8, 1827, and diedNovember 27, 1897. It was within the boundaries of Tattnall County thatJonathan B. Brewton spent nearly all the years of his life, and chiefly as a ,farmer and merchant. He also represented the county two terms in the StateLegislature and was clerk of the Superior Court for one term. During thewar between the states he served fourteen months in the Confederate army,and while away in the army was elected clerk of court and came home to fillthat civil position. He married Miss Margaret Everett of Bulloch County,where she was born October 30, 1830. To this marriage were born elevenchildren, and the names of those still living are: Mrs. Joshua Collins of EvansCounty, Georgia; Mrs. S. T. Collins of Tattnall County; Mrs. Maggie Olliffof Bulloch County; J. C. Brewton, who is founder of the Brewton ParkerInstitute at Eiley in Montgomery County, and is at the head of that well knownand flourishing preparatory school which prepares its scholars for admissionto any of the schools and universities of highest rank in the country; J. B.Brewton of Claxton, Evans County; and Henry J. Brewton.Henry J. Brewton when six years of age started to gain an education inthe country schools. His schooling was continued over a period of about tenyears, but only three months of each year were devoted to actual school attendance. On leaving the country schools he spent the year 1895-96 in MercerCollege, and then took a business course in the Poughkeepsie Eastman'sBusiness College, New York.Returning to Georgia, he engaged in merchandising in Tattnall Countywith his father, and was an active assistant of the latter for about nine monthsuntil his father's death. Later he became associated with his brother in business at Manassas in Tattnall County, but their store was destroyed by fire,and Mr. Brewton then resumed his occupation as a farmer. He still manageshis farming interests, though for the last five or six years he has given muchof his time and attention to his duties as clerk of the Superior and City courts.He has held this office for three successive terms of two years each, and histhird term expires December 31, 1916.Mr. Brewton is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and is a deacon inthe Missionary Baptist Church. On November 23, 1898, he married MissNannie Kate Covin of Troup County, Georgia. She was the daughter ofWilliam and Lucinda (Hines) Covin of Alabama, To their marriage wereborn six children: Ben Hines Brewton, aged fifteen; Maggie Low Brewton,aged thirteen; Bernice Brewton, aged eleven; Henry Jackson, Jr., aged eight;Jeannette, five years of age; and William Covin, now about two years old.D. H. REDFEAKN. Among the younger members of the Albany bar, onewho has within the period of six years attained a due share of prominence isD. H. Redfearn. In 1910 he came to Albany, direct from academic halls,and here his knowledge of the law, combined with a pleasing personality anda wealth of energy, has enabled him to speedily pass through the period ofinactivity that young attorneys are called upon to experience, his success beingof a nature well calculated to encourage others who must rely upon their ownefforts to gain a foothold upon the difficult ladder of legal preferment.D. H. Redfearn was born in Thomas County, and is a true son of Georgia,His birth occurred May 4, 1884, on his father's farm, his parents being R. H.and Mary (McDonald) Redfearn. R. H. Redfearn was a native of the OldNorth State, and there was educated and reared as a farmer's son, being still