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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3229the old servants are still with her. At the homestead she pays much attentionto keeping up the parkways, -shrubs and flowers, and has always been a collector of many rare historical documents and articles of intrinsic and associative value and interest.To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hale Sibley were born three sonsand three daughters. Of these Josiah died in 1879 at the age of twelveyears, and Grace Pendleton died July 31, 1870, aged two years. The fourchildren still living are: Jennie Hart, Kate Collier, Samuel Hale and JainesHart. Jennie Hart Sibley was married January 7, 1891, to Mr. HaroldLamb, grandson of the late renowned Dr. Eli Geddings of Charleston, S. C.Kate Collier Sibley was married February, 1896, to Mr. Robert Bryan, fourchildren, Francis Sibley, Sara Virginia, Harold Lamb and Robert F. Bryan,Jr., being born of this union. Samuel H. Sibley was born at Union Point,July 12, 1873. At the age of fifteen he was ready for the University, butowing to,the rules of the institution his admission had to be delayed one year,so at sixteen he entered the Sophomore class, and for the three consecutiveyears be led his classes and graduated before he was nineteen, bearing off thethree honors of the University. In 1893 he graduated from the departmentof law with distinction. For more than twenty years he has been a successful lawyer, also serving as judge of ordinary for Greene County. At UnionPoint on April 19, 1897, he married Miss Florence Weldon Hart, daughter ofWilliam Thomas Hart and wife, Lucy Bentley Hart. Of this union were bornthree children: William Hart, born August 4, 1898; Sarah Virginia, born in1901: and Florence Weldon, born August 20, 1906. There was another child,born in 1900, but died at birth. James H. Sibley was born in 1875, and is nowa successful business man at Union Point. He takes a most active part in thereligious and social life of the town and county, and as a proof of his popularity he was recently elected to the Legislature without the expenditure ofa cent.JOSIAH $ATTNALL. Tattnall County commemorates the name of the JosiahTattnall of this sketch. He was born on his grandfather's plantation belowSavannah in 176^, and in 1776 was carried by his f atlfer to the Bahama Islandsand afterward to England. Still later the youth was placed in charge of thecaptain of a British man-of-war bound for India, which finally was orderedto the American coast and Josiah, despite his father's care to wean Mm fromthe colonial cause, 'made his way to South Carolina near the close of theRevolutionary war. In 1782 he had joined the colonial troops under Gen.Anthony Wayne in Georgia, and when Savannah was evacuated by the Britishhe was placed in command of a district. In 1787 he was a captain and forseveral years served against the Creek Indians. He was afterward promotedto be colonel of the First Georgia Regiment, and in 1801 was made brigadiergeneralin the Georgia State Militia. After serving a number of terms in theLegislature and fighting the Yazoo Fraud, in 1796, the Legislature electedhim to a seat in the United States Senate. His term expired in 1799 and in1801 he was elected governor of Georgia. Ill health compelled him to resignthe office, and about a year and a half afterward he passed away at Nassau,New Providence, Bahama Islands, where he had passed a short period of hisboyhood : His remains were moved to the family burial grounds at Bonaventure,now in Chatham County.EDWARD TELFAIE, who twice occupied the gubernatorial chair of Georgia,was born in Scotland in 1735. He came to America at the age of twenty-threeand in 1766, having spent eight years in Virginia and North Carolina, locatedat Savannah, Georgia. When the Revolution broke upon the country, he wasa successful merchant and was a leader in all matters of defense throughoutthe war. He served in both the Provincial and Continental congresses, and inVol. VI 29