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3254 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSHis first wife, the mother of Dr. Joseph A., died of typhoid fever in 1864,her death occurring just two hours a/tor his return home from the army.While he was absent as a soldier three of their four children had also died.On January 1, 1868, he married Miss Janie Chisholm, who died in the sameyear ;it the birth of her daughter Jaiiie, who is now the wife of W. W. Turner,a successful jeweler in Cedartown. Dr. Moses Liddcll was always closelyidentified with the democratic party in politics, though never willing to acceptany oitice. Before the war he was one of the strong democrats who contestedthe political honors of the state against the whig party. He was also a memberof the Masonic fraternity, and active as a Presbyterian and engaged in manymovements for educational and general social welfare in his home community.Joseph A. Liddell was educated in the public schools at Gedartown, and in1S7G graduated from the medical department of the University of Georgia,which w»s also his father's alma mater, iu the same year of his graduationhe opened his ofOce and began practice in Cedartown, and had become wellestablished in experience and in the confidence of the community before hisfather passed from the scene of action. Doctor Ir.idell is a member of thePolk County and Georgia State Medical societies and the American MedicalAssociation, and the medical journals from time to time have publishedvaluable reports of his experience and observation in connection with particular oases.Doctor Liddell is a democrat, is an active Mason and a member of theYaryan Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Atlanta, affiliated with the Benevolentand Protective Order of Elks, and belongs to the Presbyterian Church. AtCedartown, on October 27, 1878, he married Miss Mary Lulu Walthall, daughter of Leonard H. and Susan (TSnchanan) Walthall. Her parents were amongthe earliest settlers of Polk County, and farmers and planters by vocation.Mr. Walthall served in the State Legislature several times, and died in 1877at the age of sixty-eight. His wife passed away at the same age in 1881. Tothe marriage of Doctor and Mrs. Liddell were born three children : Frank M.Liddell, born July 25, 1885. and now in the electrical business at ColoradoSprings, Colorado; Joseph A., Jr., born September 16, 1890, associated withhis brother in the electrical business at Colorado Springs ; and Miss Lucy A.,born May 23, 1895, and at home with her parents. All these children wereborn in Cedartown. Doctor Liddell owns a large amount of land both farmingand 'timber property in Polk County, and both as a matter of recreation fromhis professional work and on a solid commercial basis he is engaged in. stockfarming, specializing in high grade horses, mules, hogs and cattle.T, M. D. Among the skilled and learned professional men of Worth County who have hearkened to the call of public life,one who is well known to the people of this locality is Dr. Walter KennethStewart, of Sylvester. Tn his professional capacity as a practitioner of medicine, Doctor Stewart won well-merited success, and at the same time thoroughlyestablished himself in public confidence as a man