My Genealogy Hound

Hope T. Driskell, one of the early settlers of Bluffton Township, and one of its most successful farmers, came to this county and settled on the farm where he now lives in 1866. He came from Alabama, in which State he was reared and educated. He was reared on a farm, and at the age of twenty-one he began business for himself as an agriculturist, renting land, and succeeding as well as any in his vicinity. When he first came to this county he bought eighty acres of land, and to this he has added to from time to time, until he now has 269 acres, 100 acres of which are under cultivation. He has erected a good house, 31x31 feet, has substantial barns and other outbuildings, and, take him all in all, he is one of the most progressive and enterprising farmers in the county. He was born May 22, 1836, in Gwinnett County, Ga., received a limited education, and was married September 13, 1858, to Miss Sarah Hemphreys, who died in January, 1889. They had five children-two sons and three daughters—who are named as follows: Noah C. (married Miss Margaret Brummett), Victoria (deceased), Josephine, Martha A. (married Silas Wilkinson), and S. H. (married Miss Emily Robinson). The sons and daughters are settled near our subject, and are prosperous and successful. Mr. Driskell is a member of the Baptist Church, and has been clerk of the same for many years. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Concordia Lodge No. 310, and of this he is treasurer. He is a Democrat, but has never taken an active part in political strife. Commencing life as a poor boy, and a farmer’s boy at that, with scarcely any advantages for an education, Mr. Driskell is now in possession of a comfortable competence.