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Blogs by Walker Joe Jackson
My Father
10/20/2007 1:47:06 PM
My how time changing things
My Father
My father was raised on a farm near Athens, Georgia, where the University of Georgia is located. He attended the University two years and earned a degree in law around 1909. His graduating class was small.
After Dad graduated, a distant relative working at the State House helped him get accepted to fill a vacancy of an indisposed elected official; a little nepotism I imagine. Nearing the end of the term, Dad started thinking about his future. Joe, his brother, was an insurance salesman and he had moved to Vidalia, Georgia. Dad wrote Joe and asked him about Vidalia. Mainly he wanted to know if Vidalia offered a promising future for a young attorney?
Joe wrote back encouraging words. He told of the two railroad tracks and one paved State highway that ran through the town. And he said they are starting to pave the towns dirt streets. Based on his brother's glowing optimism, Ben Jackson decided to move his family, consisting of a dependant father, mother and sister to Vidalia when the term ended.
When he told friends about his plans to move his family to Vidalia they were shocked and expressed fear for them. "That's an awful long way to go, Ben." Wow! 140 miles. "I hear that water born diseases are rampant, and the mosquitoes are so big they wear saddles." Sure there were health risks like cholera, malaria and yellow fever, but the mosquitoes were of normal size. With four people to feed and care for, the idea of moving a family to a strange town took immense courage and self-confidence in 1912.
Undaunted, Ben Jackson faced the uncertainties and moved his family lock, stock and barrel. He said, "I made a living from the start. I had to."
Yes, in the beginning he made a living representing pickup clients at the Justice of the Peace Court. He had no connections or friends and this was the best he could do, and he gave it his best.
One day, Dad represented a defendant who had allegedly wronged the City. As the trial progressed, Dad’s persistent rebuttals refuted every point of law the City Attorney, a respected attorney of long standing in the community, raised. Dad noticed he became more and more frustrated with each rebuttal. Finally, his frustration turned to blind rage, and he rose abruptly and stared defiantly at the judge. Your honor . . . I have read you the damn law. It's obvious my recitations have fallen on the ears of a dead jackass."
This got the judge's undivided attention, and he rapped the gavel several time loudly. "Look here Colonel, one more outburst like that and I'll hold you in contempt."
The City Attorney glared back. "If you knew how much contempt I have for this court, you'd put me in jail for life." His voice had been mollified, but only slightly.
In time, he became a pillar of the community. He would be Mayor when Vidalia built the first sewer system. He fought endlessly with the citizenry over the bond issue to pay for the system. He never understood why intelligent people resisted, when citizens were dying of water born diseases. Then, those same citizens came to him later with a rather frivolous request. It’s another horse tale or is it tail? Read The Horse-Racing Slot Machine.
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