Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-06-01

the life of Judge Joseph A. Ansley.
Tributes were also paid to the late ju-
rist by his associates at the bar.
The resolutions adopted yesterday
are as follows:
Judge Joseph A. Ansley, the Nestor
of the Americas Bar, was born in War
rem county, Ca, May 9th, 1884, and died
in Americas, Ga, April oath, 1913, hav-
ing lived more than three score years
and ten but by reason of strength was
spared almost to four score, lacking q
few days of being seventy-nine years
of age.
His father and mother both died be-
fore he was five years old and at the
tender years when he most needed
same he knew not the influence and
protection of father or the kindly de-
votion and tender love of a mother. He
was raised by a half brother in Knox
vile, Crawford county, Ga, where he
spent his boyhood days and received
his common school education.
When he arrived at majority and re-
ceived his portion inherited from his
fathers estate, he decided to acquire
a collegiate education, and in order to
fl himself for college he entered a pre-
paratory school in Columbia, S. c., af >
ter which he attended Brown univer-
sity, R. |. He was an ardent student
at that university for two years and
devoted his time quite diligently to his
studies.
After leaving college he returned to
Georgia and studied law in the Office
of Judge Francis H. Cone, of Green's
Goro, Ga, one of Georgia's most promi-
nent lawyers and ex-jurists in those
days; and in the summer of 1857 was
admitted to the bar and in the fall of
the same year came to Americas and
opened a law office.
In 1860 he was elected one of the
justices of the old inferior courts, but
served only a short time, resigning in
the early summer of 1861, and enlisted
Under the STARS and Bars" and in
Muckalee Guards, Co. B, 18th Georgia
regiment, which company was COM
manded by the late Col. Willis A. Haw-
kins, distinguished and honored
member of this bar He was orderly
sergeant of his company most, if not
all the time he was in service, his
comrades in arms, only few of whom
now survive him, affirming that no
truer, drawer or more faithful soldier
marched under the flag or followed
the immortal Lee He was in all the
battles in which his company partici-
pated, including Charlottesville and
Gettysburg, and near the close o.
the war was captured at the battle o.
Fishers Hill.
Returning home after the war, Judge
Ansley resumed the practice of law
at Americas, Ga, with marked sue
cess. In 1866 he was elected judge of
the old county court, serving until the
court was abolished by the constitution
of 1868.
When Judge Chas. F. Crisp was nonl-
mated for congress in 1882 and resign
ed as judge of the Southwestern cir
cult, Judge Ansley was appointed b.
Gov. A. H. Colquitt to fill the interim
until the regular election, which was
only few months; and after serving
his time, returned to actual practice
at the bar
AS a lawyer and practitioner, the
equity practice appealed more to him
as same was more in accord with his
true nature. He believed in Justice
in what was right and what was equit-
able between man and man, and was
delighted and interested whenever
working out and untangling equity
causes.
He performed his duty we'll, both as
Il lawyer and just judge and merited
the plaudit, We'll done, thou good and
faithful servant" At the time of his