TOWNS COUNTY, GA - BIOS  Howell C. Standridge

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From “Memories of Georgia, Vol II” Published by Southern Historical Association, c. 1895

Howell C. Standridge, ex-teacher and farmer, Hiawassee,
Towns Co., Ga., son of Henry B. and Satirah (Kimsey)
Standridge, was born in what is now White County, Ga., in
1851. His paternal grandfather, Samuel Standridge, was a
native of South Carolina, and was born about 1774. After
his marriage he came to Georgia and settled in what is
now White County - a pioneer - where he died in 1876. Mr.
Standridge’s father was born in Habersham County in 1830,
where he was reared a farmer, and where he married his
wife - a daughter of the Rev. Thomas Kimsey - by whom he
had four children: Howell C., the subject of this sketch;
Junius H.; Martha C., wife of Samuel Brown, White County;
and Mary A., wife of A. Stringer. He enlisted as a
private in the Forty-third Georgia regiment, assigned to
the western army, and was present at Vicksburg, where he
died at the close of the siege. His widow died in Douglas
county, Ga., in 1892. Mr. Standridge received his primary
education in the common schools of the county, and
completed his literary studies at the North Georgia
Agricultural college at Dahlonega, Ga. After leaving
college, he taught school twenty years  with great
success and profit, establishing an enviable reputation
as an educator. In the meantime he read law, and about
1880, was admitted to the bar at Cobb county superior
court. In 1885, he was appointed postmaster at Hiawassee,
and served until 1889, discharging the duties of the
office with fidelity and acceptability. He was a
gentleman of culture, of extensive reading and
information, and varied literary attainments. For the
past three years his secular pursuit has been
agriculture, in which he takes a special pride and
interest. Mr. Standridge was married in 1878 to Miss
Mattie, daughter of Rev. Elisha Hedden, an old settler of
Hiawassee, and a Baptist minister for Sixty two years. Of
the children born to them, five are living: Agnes,
Branson, Gordon, Mamie, and Pink. Mr. Standridge has been
a consistent and active member of the Baptist church for
eighteen years; and in 1888 was regularly ordained as a
minister, and in which capacity he has devotedly and
usefully served the church since.