Screven County GaArchives Biographies.....H.C. Kittles 1842 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles cmhistory@mchsi.com January 7, 2004, 4:28 pm Author: Author unknown - Taken from Memoirs of Ga., Vol. II Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., pages 825-826 Published by the Southern Historical Association in 1895 H.C. Kittles, judge of the county court, Sylvania, was born in Screven County in 1842, and is the son of John R. and Clarky (Lovett) Kittles. John R. Kittles was born in Screven County and was one of the commissioners who laid off Sylvania. He was also a member of the legislature and a strong Whig in politics. He was a son of Peter and Sarah (Williamson) Kittles. Peter Kittles was a revolutionary soldier under Gen. Marion and settled in Georgia after the war. The mother of Judge Kittles was a daughter of Fens Lovett, a native of Screven County and a wealthy farmer. Judge Kittles was reared on the farm and in August 1861, enlisted in the Ogeechee Rifles, which was afterward Company K, Capt. A.J. Williams, Twenty-Fifth Georgia Regiment, who was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and killed at the battle of Chickamauga. He was afterward transferred to Company A., First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, and was at the important battles of Ft. McAllister, Jackson, Miss., and Chickamauga and Resaca, Ga. At the latter place he was captured and sent to Rock Island prison, and remained there until the war closed. Judge Kittles read law under Gen. A.R. (Ranse) Wright and was admitted to the bar in Augusta, Ga. in June 1870; since that he has practiced law and been a planter in Screven County. In 1876 he married Eva P. McCall, daughter of M.N. and Catherine (Porter) McCall. Mr. McCall was born and died in Screven County. He was a soldier in the Indian War and was also a member of the Georgia legislature for a number of years. He preached in the Baptist church for sixty years and died at the age of ninety-seven. He had six sons in the Confederate army. They were as follows: Phillip G.; Moses N., Captain of the Screven troop of Fifth Georgia Calvary; Thomas K., First Lieutenant Fifth Georgia Calvary, and killed near Marietta while serving on Gen. Anderson’s staff; Charles P.; Daniel T., now a leading physician of Rome, Ga.; and William C., a Baptist minister and in charge of Orangeburg church, South Carolina. George, another son, did not serve in the war and is now living in Macon and is a Baptist minister. To the union of Judge Kittles and wife have been born four children, now living: William H., Peter R., Catherine L. and Mamie L. The mother was born in Screven County. They are both members of the Baptist church and he is superintendent of the Sunday school. In 1893 he was elected judge of the county court and is now holding that position. He has been a very successful businessman and owns about 4,000 acres of land and much valuable stock. Judge Kittles had two brothers, both of whom are now dead, who served in the late war, Robert C. and Peter R., the latter being a captain. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb