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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3255accepted, served four years as a private in a Georgia infantry regiment,participated in numerous battles in which lie conducted himself as a courageousand faithful soldier, and when the war closed received bis discharge andreturned to the peaceful pursuits of the farm. Subsequently, through a longcareer of industry and earnest endeavor, he succeeded in accumulating acomfortable property, so that at this time he is living in quiet retirement atSylvester, being now seventy-four years of age. Mrs. Stewart died in 1897,aged thirty-eight years. Like her husband she was a native of Schley County,and also like him hud the unqualified esteem and respect of those among whomher life was passed. Peter and Martha C. Stewart were the parents of sevenchildren, of whom Walter K. was the fourth in order of birth.The early education of AV alter Kenneth StewarL was secured in SchloyCounty, where he attended the Concord School, in the country, and this earlytraining was supplemented by a course at Sparks Collegiate Institute, atSimmer, Georgia. After some further preparation he enrolled as a studentia the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Atlanta, where he was dulygraduated with his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1907. He began hispractice at Poulan, a town located east of Sylvester, but after two years inthat community decided to seek a broader field for the exposition of his talents,and accordingly came to Sylvester, where he soon began to enjoy a large andlucrative professional business. Doctor Stewart devoted himself unswervinglyto his practice until 1914. in which year he was elected to the oAice of clerk ofthe Superior Court of Worth County, and entered upon the discharge of thednties of that position in 1915. Be has shown himself a progressive, energeticand eminently efficient public servant, with much executive capacity. Hisservice ha» been entirely satisfactory to the people of the county. DoctorStewart still attends to his practice, and continues to be known, as a skilledpractitioner «nd carcfu), steady-handed surgeon. He spends much of his timein study, and keeps abreast of the advancements being made in the profession,holding membership in the Worth County Medical Society, of which he wasformerly secretary, and the Georgia State Medical Society. Fraternally, he isa member of the Knights of Pythias, while his religious connection ia withthe baptist Church. Since attaining his majority he has been a stanch supporter of the democratic party. Doctor Stewart has been for some yearsinterested In agricultural alYairs, and at the present time is th"b owner of a finefarm in Worth County, which is being occupied by tenants.On June 10, 1915. Doctor Stewart was united in marriage with MissRebecca Irvin Harris, of Wrightsville, Georgia, daughter of Dr. T. L.Harris, of Wrightsville, a well-known medical practitioner and Baptistminister.S. BusSEY, of Ashburn, Turner County, is one of the leadingmembers of the bar of his county and section. He was born at Jacksonville,Telfair County, Georgia, November 26, 1877, and is the son of HezckiahWesley and Rebecca S. (Willcoz) Bussey, the former born in Wilkea, andthe latter in Telfair County, Georgia.The Busscy family is of French-Huguenot origin, and the name ha* beenidentified with the annals of Georgia since the eighteen lh century. The Willcoxfamily was also founded in Georgia at an early date, and the maternalgrandfather of Mr. Bussey, Capt. Jolm Coffee Willcox served in the warbetween the states as a captain of cavalry in the Confederate army; and hisgreat-grandfather Gen. Mark Willcox was » distinguished public servant ofthe state in war and peace in the early eighteenth century. Gen. John Coffee,of Indian war fame, was also an ancestor of Mr. Bussey.Mr. Bussey, after his graduation from the Hawkinsville High School, readlaw under Judge John H. Martin, o*e of the most noted lawyers of his day,and was admitted to the bar May 17th, 1898, before he was twenty-one years