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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3235Pulaski County and grew up on his father's farm. He was not sixteen yearsof age when he left home and joined the army of the Confederacy during thestruggle between the forces of the South and the North, becoming a memberof Anderson's battery, in the Georgia Light Artillery. He is said to havebeen one of the youngest artillerymen in the army of the wearers of the gray,and saw some of the heaviest fighting of the war, being in the siege of Savannah and in numerous engagements in North and South Carolina. When hisduties as a soldier were honorably, bravely and faithfully discharged, thefuture judge returned to his home in Pulaski County and took up farming,a vocation which occupied his energies unreservedly until 1895. In that yearhe was elected tax collector for Pulaski County, a position which he held without intermission, until 1908, when he again took up civilian pursuits on hiswell-developed property, which by this time had grown to large proportionsand which necessitated his resignation from office. In October, 1913, he wasagain prevailed upon to enter public life by his many friends, and was at thattime elected ordinary, an office in which he has since become one of the mostpopular dfficials of Pulaski County. Judge Haskins has always given hist political support to the democratic party. He has long been a member ofthe Masonic fraternity, belonging to both Blue Lodge and Chapter, and hasmany friends in that order. Although nearing his sixty-seventh year, he ishale and hearty, fond of outdoor life, energetic in body and active in hismental faculties, facts which show that he has led a life of probity and cleanliving. In matters of public import the judge has always been in favor ofmovements which make for progress and advancement, and few men have lentmore helpful support to the enterprises resulting in an elevation of thestandards of education, morality and good citizenship.Judge Haskins was married in Pulaski County, October 29, 1868, to MissNancy J. Flemming, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Flemming, pioneers ofthis county, and to this union eleven children were born, of whom only one isdeceased: William Bunyon, who is married, resides in Pulaski County, andhas five children; Miss Inez, who is unmarried and resides with her parents;Mrs. Leah Holmes, who resides in Florida and has four children; Mrs. FrankieTurner, who lives in Puiaski County and has four children; Lawrence, of thiscounty, the father of three children; Mrs. Katie Trice, who resides in PulaskiCounty, Georgia; Mrs. Bianca Dykes, a resident of Alabama; Mrs. BertieLawson, of this county; H. A., Jr., who resides in Pulaski County; andMrs. H. A. Knight.JOHN tTuLiAN STONE, M. D. It not infrequently happens that the men in afamily will display a predilection for a certain profession or particular lineof business, their success in which results in the family name being associatedwith that calling for many years. In this connection it is not inappropriateto mention the career of Dr. John Julian Stone, the son and grandson ofphysicians and himself a skilled and thorough practitioner. He has beenlocated at Hawkinsville since 1903 and during this time has advanced steadilyto a position of prestige, heredity, preference, fitness and training all havingcombined to accomplish his success.Doctor Stone was born September 3, 1874, at Linton, Hancock County,Georgia, and is a son of R. G. and Buena Vista (Malpas) Stone. His paternalgrandfather, Dr. John Stone, was born at Rochester, Vermont, and twentyyears prior to the outbreak of the war between the states came to Georgiaafter graduation from the College of Vermont and the College of Physiciansand Surgeons, Philadelphia. He practiced his profession in WashingtonCounty for many years, was a widely known and highly influential citizen, anddied, honored and" respected, in 1881, aged seventy years. Doctor Stone married Miss Ann Glenn of Washington County, who died when sixty-five yearsof age, in 1879. The maternal grandfather of Doctor Stone was KenyonMalpas, a well known farmer, who married a Miss Cheeley of Sparta, Georgia.