Meriwether County GaArchives Biographies.....J.S. Radcliffe  1855 -  Unknown
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Author: Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 1895

Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895
Pages 519-520

J. S. Radcliffe

J. S. Radcliffe, a progressive farmer and substantial business man of 
Meriwether county, was born in Stinson in 1855, and is the son of George W. 
and Anna E. (Stinson) Radcliffe.  His father was born in Talbot county, Ga., 
in 1827, and for a long period was a leading business man in Talbotton, and 
later, for a number of years in Columbus, and retired from business in 1877.  
During the war he had charge of important Confederate interests.  He is of 
Irish ancestry, a great-grandson of Lord Radcliffe, whose son George came to 
the state of New York in his boyhood and there made his home.  His son, Samuel 
G., born in New York, whose wife was Jacqueline Davis, settled in Talbotton, 
Ga., among its early settlers.  The wife of George W. Radcliffe was a daughter 
of Dr. James W. and Martha J. (Jackson) Stinson, the father being a well-known 
physician of Stinson, in this county, where for many years he enjoyed a very 
large and successful practice.  He was by birth a North Carolinian, an early 
settler of Putnam county, for several years a successful school teacher, and 
took his course in medicine at the medical college of Georgia, Augusta.  J.S. 
Radcliffe received an excellent education in the schools of Columbus, where he 
resided during his early years, taking an advanced course at Hillwood 
institute of Columbus.  For eight years Mr. Radcliffe was engaged in business 
in Columbus after which he moved to Alabama and engaged in farming, then 
returned to Georgia, and has been engaged in various commercial enterprises 
since then.  Two years he was in Augusta, and three years in Rome, Ga., but 
since 1885 his home has been in Stinson, where, in addition to the mercantile 
business, he carries on a large plantation.  In 1877 Mr. Radcliffe married 
Miss Mary Hawkins, born in 1857 in Americus, Ga.  She was a graduate of 
Americus college, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church south.  Her 
parents were Judge Willis A. and Mary (Finn) Hawkins, the former one of the 
best criminal lawyers in the state, and for two years, judge of the supreme 
court; he was a native of Sumter county.  Mrs. Radcliffe died Jan. 6, 1879, 
leaving her husband with one child – George Willis.  Feb. 1, 1883, Mr. 
Radcliffe married Miss Emma E. Smith, a native of Alabama, born in 1859.  Her 
parents, Col. Robert H. and Helen (Herndon) Smith, were also natives of 
Alabama.  Her father was a prominent lawyer in Mobile, Ala., for many years.  
Mr. and Mrs. Radcliffe are the parents of four children: Robert H., James S., 
Lillie and Lulu.  Mrs. Radcliffe is a member of the Episcopalian church, while 
her husband is a Methodist.  The family is one held in high esteem by all who 
know them.



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