Lowndes County GaArchives Biographies.....Myddelton, Robert Butler 1873 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   ROBERT BUTLER MYDDELTON. When it is stated that this esteemed citizen of
Valdosta has served as clerk of the superior court in Lowndes county, Georgia,
continuously since 1908 and that he succeeded his father, Robert Thomas
Myddelton, the incumbent of that office for thirty-one consecutive years,
further attestation as to the family's worth and standing will be unnecessary.
Three generations of the Myddeltons have been native to Georgia soil and have
sprung from their common ancestor, William Myddelton, who was born in England
and came to America in colonial times, settling in South Carolina. William
Myddelton was married in South Carolina to Margaret Thompson and removed from
that state to McIntosh county, Georgia, where both spent the remainder of their
lives as farmer people. Their son Augustus Myddelton, born in McIntosh County,
Georgia, was reared in his native county to agricultural pursuits and after his
father's death assumed charge of the home farm, which he conducted by slave
labor. Later he removed from McIntosh county to Chatham county and bought a
tract of land at Bethesda, ten miles from Savannah, where remained his home for
about fifteen years. Removing from there to Bryan county, he bought a plantation
of 720 acres on the. Midway river, where he resided until March, 1863, when the
war activities of the time having made his home in this section unpleasant and
unsafe, he took his family to Valdosta, Lowndes county. He bought a home in the
village and a farm a few miles out and continued his residence in Valdosta until
his death in May, 1864, at the age of sixty. Mary Percival (Todd) Myddelton, his
wife, was born in McIntosh county, Georgia, and was a daughter of John and
Margery (Percival) Todd. She survived her husband many years and passed away at
the advanced age of ninety. To this union were born the following children:
John, Eugenia, Margaret, James, Ezra, Harriett, Samuel, Sara and Robert T.

   Robert Thomas Myddelton, the youngest of this family and the father of our
subject, was born near Savannah, Chatham county, Georgia, January 27, 1845, and
was educated at Flemington, Liberty county. He was but a youth when the Civil
war broke out, but fired with the zeal and loyalty which characterized the sons
of the South, he enlisted in his seventeenth year in Capt. S. D. Bradwell's
company of the Twenty-fifth Georgia Volunteer Infantry. After he had served
about one year he was discharged on account of disability, but in 1864 he again
enlisted, this time in the Twentieth Battalion of Georgia Cavalry and went with
the command to Virginia, where it was transferred to the Jeff Davis legion
(Mississippi troops) and served in Young's brigade of Wade Hampton's command.
Young Myddelton was in active service until the close of the war, when he was
paroled and returned to the home of his parents in Valdosta. For a time he
clerked in a store there and then later engaged in the mercantile business
independently, continuing it until compelled to give it up on account of ill
health. Removing to a farm, he continued on it until 1878, when he began his
duties as clerk of the superior court of Lowndes county, to which office he had
been elected in the fall of 1877. By successive reelections he has continued in
that office thirty-one years and then he resigned. Certainly no more eloquent
testimony could be given of the confidence and esteem he has commanded from his
fellow citizens. He has also served as a member of the city council several
terms and also as mayor of Valdosta. In November, 1868, was solemnized his
marriage to Euphemia Smith, who was born in Lowndes county to Duncan and
Margaret (Dasher) Smith. They have reared eight children, as follows: Smith,
Mary, Robert B., Effie, William, Ralph, Paul and Archibald. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Myddelton are members of the Baptist church, and he affiliates fraternally with
Valdosta Lodge No. 184, Free and Accepted Masons.

   Robert Butler Myddelton was born in Valdosta, Georgia, March 6, 1873, was
educated in the public schools of that city and when a mere boy took up
responsible duties as a clerk in a store. At the age of sixteen he entered the
employ of A. S. Pendleton, wholesale and retail groceries, with whom he remained
four years. The following nine years were spent as a bookkeeper in the First
National Bank of Valdosta, and then he was appointed deputy clerk of the
superior court of Lowndes county and clerk of the city court of Valdosta. In the
fall of 1908 he was elected clerk of the superior court to succeed his father,
who had resigned, and by reelection he has been continued in that office to the
present time, also in the office of clerk of the city court.

   The marriage of Mr. Myddleton took place in November, 1898, and united him to
Miss Maude Hodges, a native of Bulloch county, Georgia, and a daughter of Eli W.
and Louise (Keller) Hodges. They have two children, Robert Hodges and Margaret
Louise. Mr. Myddelton is a member of Valdosta Lodge No. 184, Free and Accepted
Masons, Valdosta Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, Malta Commandery of Knights
Templars, and of Alee Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S.



Additional Comments:
From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913




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