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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSinterest in community affairs and as a citizen has been essentially progressiveand public-spirited. Prior to assuming Ids present office he had served astax receiver, 1903-4, and as county clerk and clerk of the superior court hehas brought to bear mature judgment and much executive ability ami discrimination. Mr. Hanecek accords staunch allegiance to the democratic partyand has been active as a worker in behalf of its cause. lie is affiliated withthe .Masonic fraternity and both lie and his wife bold membership in theBaptist Church at Abbeville, the county seat, where they have, as a matter ofcourse, maintained their home since his assumption of his present importantcounty office, which he has retained through successive re-elections.In the year 1880 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hancock to MissSarah Jane Walker-, who was born in Irwiu County, this state, and who is adaughter of the late .John Walker, a well known and highly esteemed citizenof thai, county, where both he and his wife continued to reside until theirdeath. Concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Hancock, the following briefdata are available: Mrs. Sarah Kerry resides at Rebecca; J. J. is a prosperousfarmer of Turner Comity: John is a successful representative of agriculturalindustry in Pierce County; .James, Cora Alice and May remain at the parentalhome and are attending the public schools of Abbeville.REV, DR. AKF.TAS Mrrc.rreLL IIuciTLErr, Methodist minister and the presentpresiding elder of the Atlanta district of the North Georgia Conference, is anative son of Virginia, born in Lancaster County,- on January 18, 186,],His father, another Aretas Mitchell llugbleit, was a teacher by profession,and be. too, was born in Lancaster County, Virginia. The date of his birthwas June 26, J829, and he died on March 1.0, 1915, in his eighty-sixth year oflife. He was the, son of Capt. William Ilughlett, a Virginian. The motherof Doctor Ilughlett of this review was Elizabeth Iceland. Strangely enough,both bis maternal and paternal grandmothers bore the maiden name ofMitchell. The Hughletts, the Lelauds and the Mitehells were among theearliest families of Virginia, and records of each of the families may be foundin Virginia history back to the earliest period in its existence. The threefamilies were numerous in both Lancaster and Northumberland counties, andthey have been prominently identified with Virginia and her progress throughseveral generations.The ITughlctt family is descended from its English ancestor, WilliamHughh'ft, who emigrated from his native land to Virginia early in the seventeenth century. All three families were of the Episcopal faith, and thechurch records of Lancaster and Northumberland counties reveal the factthat many members of the various families held positions of honor among thelaymen of the church, while on the subject's maternal side John Lcland wasan Episcopal clergyman.Aretas Mitchell Hugblett, Sr., and Elizabeth Leland were married inJanuary, 1861, and they bad a family of six sons and three daughters.Doctor Ilughletl of this review was the second child born in this family.Seven of the nine lived to reach mature life, and six of that number are livingtoday. They are Dr. William L. Ilughlett, a practicing physician of Cocoa,Florida; Charles L. Ilughlett, a real estate dealer, also located in Cocoa.Florida; Prof. James I). Ilughlett. of Texas; Mrs. Margaret George, the wifeof John George, of Lancaster County, Virginia; Mrs. Elizabeth Mason, thewife of Alvin GL Mason of Accomac County, Virginia; and Rev. Dr. AretasMitehcl! Ilughlett of this review.Doctor Ilughlett was reared in his native state and county and had bisearly education in the public schools. "When he was sixteen he became aninstructor in the public schools, and for five years be was engaged in thatwork. Then, at the age of twenty-one, be entered Randolph-Macou College,from which he was graduated in 1889, receiving the degree A. B. in 1899.