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3236 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSDr. R. G. Stone was born at Linton, Washington County, Georgia, andthere spent the seventy-two years of his life. He received his early educationin the public schools, and in young manhood enlisted in the Eighteenth Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, as a private of Company K, for service inthe war between the South and the North. With an excellent record hereturned to the pursuits of civil life, resuming his medical studies and beingeventually graduated from Charleston Medical College. From that time untilhis death he continued to be engaged in the practice of medicine and surgeryat Linton, winning an excellent reputation, gaining a high position, and enjoying the emoluments which go with such prestige. He married Miss BuenaVista Malpas, who still survives him at the age of sixty-five years, and theybecame the parents of five children, as follows: Addie Stone, deceased, whowas the wife of A. M. Duggan of Hancock County, Georgia; Mrs. Mary GlennSwint, the wife of a physician of Milledgeville; John Julian; Dr. RobertGlenn, who is associated with his brother in the practice of medicine atHawkinsville; and Miss Ruth, whose home is at Milledgeville.As a boy John Julian Stone attended the public schools at Linton. Heearly showed in which direction his inclinations ran as to a life vocation, andafter taking the junior course at Mercer University entered upon his medicalstudies under the preceptorship of his father. Subsequently he became astudent in the medical department of the University of Georgia, at Augusta,and was duly graduated in the class of 1898, with the degree of Doctor ofMedicine. Doctor Stone began practice at Milledgeville in 1900 and remainedat that point until 1903, at which time he took up his residence and opened anoffice at Hawkinsville. In this thriving community lie has since built up alarge and important professional business, his clientele including the representative families of this section. At the present, time he is serving as county,physician of Pulaski County. He keeps fully abreast of the advancementbeing made in the profession, and holds membership in the Georgia MedicalSociety, the Ocmulgee Medical Society and the Southern Medical Society,while his fraternal connection is with the Red Men. He is a democrat, but nota politician. With his family, he belongs to the Baptist Church. Personally,he is a genial and approachable gentleman, sympathetic in nature and disposed to look upon the humanitarian as well as the scientific side of hisprofession.On June 11, 1911, Doctor Stone was married at Hawkinsville to MissHazel Coleman, daughter of John and Mary (Wilcox) Colernan, and a descendant of the early Georgia settler, her maternal grandfather, in whose honorWilcox County was named. Doctor and Mrs. Stone have one child: JohnJulian, Jr., who was born at Hawkinsville, in 1912.CHARLES BOYD, M. D. A physician and surgeon of almost forty years'experience, Dr. Charles Boyd of Macon is one of the ablest representatives ofthe medical profession in Georgia. He has practiced in many different localities both in his native state and elsewhere, and was appointed United Statesarmy surgeon June 29, 1898.In recent years Dr. Charles Boyd has discovered a specific cure for treatment of the alarming disease of pellagra.In the City of Fitzgerald Doctor Boyd has treated successfully a largenumber of cases, many of them showing the most virulent forms of the disease,and his success has been such as to constitute him a notable authority on thisquestion. One special evidence of his standing among medical men came in1914 when he appeared before the United States Board of Health at Washington, District of Columbia, and explained the efficacy of his formula in such aconclusive manner as to win many commendations from the eminent authorities before whom he appeared. In' his office at Macon Doctor Boyd has a fileof testimonials from former patients and from physicians who have investi-