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Source: "Memoirs of Georgia", Historical and Biographical Sketches, by S Emmett Lucas Jr, published in 1896.

Robert B. Hitchcock, farrner and saw-mill man, Buchanan, Haralson Co., Ga., son of T. C. and Martha (Jenkins) Hitchcock,

 was born in Polk county, Ga., in 1862. His father was the son of J. C. Hitchcock, a farmer, and was born near Rockmart, Polk

Co., Ga., and raised and educated there. He enlisted as a soldier in the late "unpleasantness," but as he belonged to the

home guards, was in no battle. His mother was also born in Polk county. Mr. Hitchcock's boyhood was passed during the

 most trying period of our history,  and he was deprived almost entirely of educational advantages-teachers scarce and

not the best, and school houses inconvenient and uncomfortable. He came to Haralson county  when seventeen years old,

in 1879, and began the battle of life moneyless, among strangers. He farmed successfully for some years, saved money,

and then engaged in saw-milling with the best of success. He is financially strong; and is justly regarded as one of rising

young men of the county. Mr. Hitchcock was married July 6, 1888, to Miss Mellie, daughter of  William and Mary Summerville,

Polk county, to whom three children have been born: Israel Columbia, Robert Simpson and Selina Christine. Mr. Hitchcock is

 a master Mason.

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