JAMES T. SISK.
As a lawyer James T. Sisk has already commended his ability and personality to the respected confidence of Elbert County. He has shown himself able in business, efficient in the handling of interests entrusted to him by his clients, and a valuable member of his home community as a citizen.
Mr. Sisk is a son of Rev. Elijah Lumpkin and Lucinda Frances (Phillips) Sisk. The grandfather Elijah Lumpkin Sisk, Sr., came to Georgia from South Carolina, and was an active factor as an early day farmer. The maternal grandparents were George Washington Phillips and wife, who formerly lived in Virginia, moved from there to South Carolina, and subsequently established their home on a Georgia plantation. Rev. E. L. Sisk is now probably the oldest active minister in the Baptist Church in Georgia. Continuously for fifty-five years he has been in the service of his church, and for him the love and respect of the people has grown in proportion to the years of his service. Though at a venerable age, he still has charge of a church at Royston in Franklin County, and looks after the religious welfare of a large congregation. In the early days, beginning before the war, he belonged to the class of circuit riders, and probably no other profession at that time endured more hardships in prosecuting their duties than such pioneer ministers. The community which he served was isolated and spread over a wide territory, and he rode from one place to the other, enduring the hardships of weather and bad roads, and thousands of other inconveniences which now have disappeared from the common life of the people owing to the great advancement made in transportation and other facilities in the life of the twentieth century. Rev. Mr. Sisk is now eighty-six years of age. His wife, who is aged fifty-eight, was born in Oconee County, South Carolina, and came to Georgia with her parents.
James T. Sisk was born at Westminster, South Carolina, December 16, 1881, and was one of two children. His sister. Miss Harriet Pickens Sisk, is still living at home with bor parents in Royton. As a boy Mr. Sisk attended the public schools at Flowery Branch in Bowman, Georgia, and the John Gibson Institute at Dahlonega, where he was graduated A. B. in 1897. He then entered the University of Georgia and was a student in the law department until graduating LL. B. in 1902. Mr. Sisk did not take up practice immediately, but instead went on the road as a traveling salesman for the International Harvester Company, and was one of the successful commercial representatives of that great corporation for five years. He then determined to leave business and take up the practice of his regular profession, and in 1907 was formally admitted to the bar 8nd opened his office at Elberton. Mr. Sisk now enjoys a splendid practice, and has also served as county administrator for Elbert County since 1907. He is unmarried and resides in Elberton, where he is the owner of considerable real estate interests. In politics Mr. Sisk is a democrat.
Source: A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians, Volume V, by Lucian Lamar Knight, published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago-New York, 1917; Pg. 2660
