Schley-Sumter County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hixon, James Augustus "Doc" April 24, 1940
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The Ellaville Sun  Friday, April 26, 1940  No. 43
TRIBUTE PAID JUDGE HIXON
Judge James Augustus (Doc) Hixon, a native Schley countian, who gained a wide 
reputation as a criminal lawyer during more than 50 years of legal practice, 
died at his home in Americus Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock after a week's 
illness following a heart seizure.  He was 76.  Funeral services were 
conducted from the residence Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with Dr. J.B. 
Lawrence officiating.  He was assisted by rev. Mr. Rountree.  Members of the 
Americus Bar Association and Sumter county courthouse officials formed an 
honorary escort.  Born at Ellaville October 22, 1863, he attended school here 
and in Dawson.  After his graduation from the law school of the University of 
Georgia in the early eighties, he established practice at Americus.  Never 
defeated in a race for any office, he served as judge of the Court of Sumter 
and later as Judge of City Court.  He was mayor of Americus for two terms and 
was elected to both the house and senate of the General Assembly.  Judge 
Hixon, however, earned his greatest success in the courtroom.  The shrewdness 
of his arguments and his mystery in presenting them to a jury marked him as 
one of the state's foremost criminal lawyers, and he handled many cases which 
attracted wide spread attention.  Farming and poultry raising were his main 
diversions.  Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Leila Watts Hixon; a daughter, 
Mrs. J.Lewis Ellis and a grandson, James Hixon Hawkins, all of Americus; three 
brothers, E.L. Bridges, Americus, S. Russell Bridges and Howard Bridges, both 
of Atlanta; two sisters, Mrs. Benjamin Boyleston, Blacksville, S.C.; and Mrs. 
Mary Snider, Selma, Ala.; besides a number of other relatives.


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