HARALSON COUNTY, GA - BIOS Robert B. Hitchcock

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Source: "MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA", Historical and Biographical Sketches,  1896.

ROBERT B. HITCHCOCK, farmer and saw-mill man,
Buchanan, Haralson Co., Ga., son of T. C. and Martha
(Jenkins) Hitchcock, was born in Polk county, Ga.,
in 1862. His father was the son of J. C. Hitchcock,
a farmer, and was born near Rockmart, Polk Co., Ga.,
and raised and educated there. He enlisted as a
soldier in the late "unpleasantness," but as he
belonged to the home guards, was in no battle. His
mother was also born in Polk county. Mr. Hitchcock's
boyhood was passed during the most trying period of
our history, and he was deprived almost entirely of
educational advantages-teachers scarce and not the
best, and school houses inconvenient and
uncomfortable. He came to Haralson county when
seventeen years old, in 1879, and began the battle
of life moneyless, among strangers. He farmed
successfully for some years, saved money, and then
engaged in saw-milling with the best of success. He
is financially strong; and is justly regarded as one
of rising young men of the county. Mr. Hitchcock was
married July 6, 1888, to Miss Mellie, daughter of
William and Mary Summerville, Polk county, to whom
three children have been born: Israel Columbia,
Robert Simpson and Selina Christine. Mr. Hitchcock
is a master Mason.