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438 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS
the war an aristocratic community, known as Buckersvillc. It was the birth-place,
in after years, of Associate Justice Joseph E. Lamar, of the Supreme Court of the
United States. Here, too, was born the brilliant novelist editorial writer, Mrs. Corra
White Harris. Joseph Eucker, the chief potentate of the village, around whom the
activities of this rural community, in large measure, centered was Judge Lamar's
grandfather. Some idea of this unique character, and of the neighborhood in
JOSEPH RUCKEE
Ante-Bellum Financier and Planter
which he lived, may be gleaned from the following account: Whoever writes of old
Euckersville—the Ruckersville of ante-bellum days—to write intelligently, must
speak of a whole community! Not those alone who lived within the confines of a
small incorporated village of some 200 souls, but of the many who resided along the
banks of the Savannah Eiver in the southeastern belt of Elbert County, Georgia.
Socially, politically, and in all matters of religion, they were one large family; and
it may be doubted if there existed, anywhere, just previous to the great Civil war, a