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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3223was born in Johnson County. He settled on a farm, and when the warcame on he joined the Confederate army and at a later time became activelyinterested in Iqcal politics. At one time he was identified with the populistcause, but finally returned to the* democratic party. He and his wife wereboth active in the Baptist Church, and reared a large family to honor andpractice the Christian, virtues. Zacharias, Jr., died January 21, 1914, at theage of seventy-nine, while his wife passed away in 1907 at the age of sixtyfive.A brief mention of their children, all of them honored and respectedin their different conmiunities is as follows: Charles Claxton, who is aprominent lumber man in Mississippi; Mozell, who first married Dr. ManningAnderson of Bartow, Georgia, and is now the widow of R. A. Powell of Johnson County; Molly is the wife of Joseph Atkins of Soperton, Georgia; Charlesis a resident of Mississippi; Bennett is a farmer at Kite, Georgia; Lorenzo;Susan is the wife of if. A. Garrett of Alamo, Georgia; Tarchy is the wife ofRobert Waller of Emanuel County and state representative from that district;Ocilla is the wife of E. D. Smith of Soperton.Sixth in order of age among these children is Lorenzo Claxton, who wasborn in Johnson County in 1861, had a common school education, and throughall his active career has dftvoted his energies to farming. He has stood highin local politics in Johnson County, served two terms or eight years in theoffice of 'county treasurer, and is still one of the most prosperous farmer citizens in that county. He is a deacon in the Baptist Church and is affiliatedwith the Masonic order. He married Miss Isabelle Alien, who was born inJohnson County of an old family there. They became the parents of thesechildren: Rev. James L. Claxton is a Baptist minister at Quitman, Georgia;the next in age is Dr. Edward B.; Minnie, wife of G. W. Crawford of Sandersville,died in May,. 1910, at the age of twenty-six; Manning Zack is a druggist at Dublin; Leslie E. is a bookkeeper in Dublin; Ethel is the wife of ErnestPrice of Harrison, Georgia; and Arlie, Nolie and Nellie Mary are youngerchildren and still being educated.While Edward Burton Claxton spent much of his youth in the rural districts of Georgia, he early aspired to a broad sphere of usefulness and directedhis energies to getting a substantial and liberal education. He attended thepublic schools in Johnson County, the high school at Wrightsville, and afterone year in the medical department of the University of Georgia at Augustaentered the Maryland Medical College of Baltimore, where he was graduatedM. D. in 1905. Following that came six months as an interne at the FranklinSquare Hospital of Baltimore, and he then" returned to Georgia to beginprivate practice at Kite in Johnson County. Three years later, in 1909, hereturned to Baltimore and pursued graduate studies in Johns Hopkins University, after which he again resumed his work in Kite. In 1912 DoctorClaxton came to Dublin, and at the present time has unquestioned rank withthe best physicians and surgeons of that section of Central Georgia. In 1914he again interrupted his private practice to take three months of post-graduatetraining in the New York City Medical School Hospital.In 1914 he served as president of the County Medical Society, has beenvice president of the District Medical Society, and is a member of the StateMedical Society and American Medical Association. He has been countyphysician since 1914, is a director and charter member of Dublin Sanitarium,and is a director of the Southern Exchange Bank. Fraternally he is a Knightof Pythias and Odd Fellow, a member of the Blue Lodge of Masons at Dublin,and a member of the First Baptist Church at Dublin.On December 27, 1905, Doctor Claxton was married at Baltimore, Maryland, to Miss Irene Robertson of Baltimore, daughter of Professor J. L. Robertson.Mrs. Claxton has four brothers: R. .Wert Robertson, of Salisbury,Maryland; two dentists, Drs. H. C. Robertson and L. J. Robertson of Baltimore, and L. M. Robertson of Baltimore; also two sisters, Mrs. George North