Screven County GaArchives Biographies.....H.C. Kittles 1842 - 
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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.






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