Kinloch Falconer was the son of Thomas A. Falconer. The 1860 census lists Thomas A. Falconer's occupation as Publisher & Editor. Kinloch Falconer's occupation is listed as Printer. Thomas A. Falconer was born around 1808 and died Sept. 8, 1878 of the Yellow Fever Epidemic. It is possible that he is also buried in Hill Crest Cemetery, but the location is unmarked.
(Info: Robert Patterson)
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Death of Col. Kinloch Falconer,
Secretary of State.
It is hard to realize that these sad words have to be written. Two weeks ago Col. Falconer left us in good health to attend a sick father at his home in Holly Springs. He reached the bed-side of his parent barely in time to bid him a last adieu. Soon his brother, the gentle, generous and brave Howard Falconer, was taken ill with the prevailing epidemic and was called up his last account. The angel of death next claimed the unselfish and devoted subject of this notice for a victim, and he, too, has been struck down with the robes of a high office upon him, in the meridian of life and the bloom of his useful manhood.
Again has Mississippi been called to weep at the grave of one of her best and truest sons. It will be a pleasing thought to his friends that, in the trying scenes of the last days of his life, he was resigned to the will of his Heavenly Father, Whose mercy and goodness disrobe even the pestilence of its terrors. In a letter written to a friend in this city on the 17th inst., two days before, he was seized with the illness that terminated his life, he thus, as if anticipating the fatal result, expressed the Christian's resignation and faith: "Oh! the scenes here are beyond human power to describe. I realize that there is One alone who can save. My prayer is made to Him and my hope is in him."
Published in The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi on September 25, 1878
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Dr. J.D. Wood's Tribute to Col. Falconer.
Glasgow (Ky.) Times}
Col. Kinloch Falconer, Secretary of State of Mississippi, died three day ago at Holly Springs with yellow fever. A truer, nobler and more unselfish son Mississippi never had. In the prime of life, and possessing the unbounded confidence of his State, any office within her gift would have been honored by his occupancy. His death will
bring a very heavy gloom to his State an inconsolable bitterness of sorrow to his family and profound regret to his friends everywhere. God grant that the soul of Kinloch Falconer may bask in the eternal sunshine of heavenly glory.
Published in The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi on October 2, 1878
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THE LATE KINLOCH FALCONER
A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Starkville Citizen. - In 1857 the editor of the Oktibbeha Citizen was editor of the Marshall Democrat in Holly Springs, Kinloch's father was the editor of the Holly Springs Herald. Howard, an older brother of Kinloch's were both boys and did all the work in their father's office . It affords us a melancholy pleasure to be able to embalm his memory in the columns of the Citizen, and make a brief mention of his short and brilliant career. We became acquainted with him in his early boyhood, when his smiling face would once a week illuminate the Democrat office, as carrier boy of the Herald. The Falconers were a talented family, and left their mark on all they touched. But this brief notice is devoted to Kinloch.
As soon as Kinloch was old enough, he became an apprentice in his father's office, where he was inducted into all the mysteries of printing to be learned in a country newspaper office. He was by turns, devil, carrier, roller boy, typo and pressman. He became a thorough printer in all branches, and was known eventually as one of the fastest compositors and best office managers in the State. But his general education was not neglected during his apprenticeship. When he could be spared from the office, he attended the fine schools for which Holly Springs ha3 always been noted. In 1858 he entered the junior class of the University of Mississippi, and graduated as second honor man in the class of 1860, and afterwards became associate editor with his father of the Southern Herald, and studied law.
At the breaking out of the war, he enlisted as a private in a Holly Springs company, commanded by the gallant Captain Thos. W. Harris. He was the Private Secretary of Gen. Bragg, and afterwards Bragg's Adjutant General. In December 1862, at the age of twenty two, at the request of Gen. Bragg, he was appointed by the Secretary of War, to duty with the staff of the Army of Tennessee, with the rank of Major. He soon became the best known of the officers of that staff. Everybody knew and honored him, from the private soldier to the Commanding General. Thoroughly efficient and strict in the discharge of his official duties, he was at the same time affable, kind and easy of access to all. In the latter part of the year 1865, he became a partner of Hon. John W. C. Watson in the practice of law ; and in the summer of 1866, he receive! his diploma from the law school of the University. But his first love, the newspaper, had an irresistable attraction for him, and in August, 1867, he became associated with his brother in-law Columbus Barrett, as editor of the Holly Springs Reporter. The Reporter immediately took position among the leading papers in the State, and Col. Falconer added largely to his reputation and popularity. In 1868, was nominated as the Democratic candidate for Lieut. Governor, on the ticket with Gov. Humpreys, and he was triumphantly elected. But the same vote which elected him defeated the new Constitution under which the Anti Johnson Republican were seeking to reconstruct the State, and the State was continued in the hands of the military.
At the time of his death he held the office of Secretary of State, having been elected on the Democratic ticket in 1875. Leaving his office in Jackson, where there was no yellow fever, he went to Holly Springs, his native place, right into the jaws of death to comfort his dying father and sick brother, and when both had died, he himself was smitten by the plague, paid the penalty of his sublime devotion to filial affection and noble humanity. Thus has passed away in the zenith of splendid manhood, one of Mississippi's grandest sons, doubly a hero, heroic in war's carnage, grandly heroic in the carnival of pestilence! Peace to thy ashes ! Rest in Heaven through the long ages of eternity to thy great soul ! Another tribute from a writer in the Woodville Republican;
We have strewn the roses on the grave of Kinloch Falconer. Though I knew not Kinloch Falconer, save by reputation, yet was I greatly impressed by the foregoing quotation from a letter recently written from Holly Springs in our devoted State; an obituary of itself; how beautiful! how touching:
It doubtless will be asked, and who was Kinloch Falconer?
The simple answer is, he was a hero,
One who threw himself into the deadly breach,
Self-abregating,sprang to the aid of others
Writhing in toils of that fell destroyer
Now sweeping o'er our land.
strove to save a father and a brother loved,
And when they fell, stood fighting on
For friends, for Grangers, and for all,
Until the insatiate foe struck him,
The shining mark, to earth.
Yet was not Kinloch Falconer but the one,
The single type, of that great Brotherhood,
That God-like band of men, and women too
Who, ignoring ease and comfort, all
Went forth to battle in the philanthropic cause.
To stay the progress of the ruthless foe.
Or fall while battling in the unequal right.
Of that great Brotherhood, now to be number'd
Not by scores, but hundreds, that have fallen.
Were many souls, like Rockwood and an Upham.
Who nobly fought and fell,
And now have gone to reap their great reward.
And yet another Brotherhood, confederate with these,
We see, and recognize with heart and band;
Who, distant from the deadly strife,have shown that "of such" too were they ;
They of the North, the East, the West Who, by their deeds, have won
The love oppressors ne'er could gain.
Published in The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi on November 6, 1878
(Info: Robert Patterson)
*************************************
Death of Col. Kinloch Falconer,
Secretary of State.
It is hard to realize that these sad words have to be written. Two weeks ago Col. Falconer left us in good health to attend a sick father at his home in Holly Springs. He reached the bed-side of his parent barely in time to bid him a last adieu. Soon his brother, the gentle, generous and brave Howard Falconer, was taken ill with the prevailing epidemic and was called up his last account. The angel of death next claimed the unselfish and devoted subject of this notice for a victim, and he, too, has been struck down with the robes of a high office upon him, in the meridian of life and the bloom of his useful manhood.
Again has Mississippi been called to weep at the grave of one of her best and truest sons. It will be a pleasing thought to his friends that, in the trying scenes of the last days of his life, he was resigned to the will of his Heavenly Father, Whose mercy and goodness disrobe even the pestilence of its terrors. In a letter written to a friend in this city on the 17th inst., two days before, he was seized with the illness that terminated his life, he thus, as if anticipating the fatal result, expressed the Christian's resignation and faith: "Oh! the scenes here are beyond human power to describe. I realize that there is One alone who can save. My prayer is made to Him and my hope is in him."
Published in The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi on September 25, 1878
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Dr. J.D. Wood's Tribute to Col. Falconer.
Glasgow (Ky.) Times}
Col. Kinloch Falconer, Secretary of State of Mississippi, died three day ago at Holly Springs with yellow fever. A truer, nobler and more unselfish son Mississippi never had. In the prime of life, and possessing the unbounded confidence of his State, any office within her gift would have been honored by his occupancy. His death will
bring a very heavy gloom to his State an inconsolable bitterness of sorrow to his family and profound regret to his friends everywhere. God grant that the soul of Kinloch Falconer may bask in the eternal sunshine of heavenly glory.
Published in The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi on October 2, 1878
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THE LATE KINLOCH FALCONER
A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Starkville Citizen. - In 1857 the editor of the Oktibbeha Citizen was editor of the Marshall Democrat in Holly Springs, Kinloch's father was the editor of the Holly Springs Herald. Howard, an older brother of Kinloch's were both boys and did all the work in their father's office . It affords us a melancholy pleasure to be able to embalm his memory in the columns of the Citizen, and make a brief mention of his short and brilliant career. We became acquainted with him in his early boyhood, when his smiling face would once a week illuminate the Democrat office, as carrier boy of the Herald. The Falconers were a talented family, and left their mark on all they touched. But this brief notice is devoted to Kinloch.
As soon as Kinloch was old enough, he became an apprentice in his father's office, where he was inducted into all the mysteries of printing to be learned in a country newspaper office. He was by turns, devil, carrier, roller boy, typo and pressman. He became a thorough printer in all branches, and was known eventually as one of the fastest compositors and best office managers in the State. But his general education was not neglected during his apprenticeship. When he could be spared from the office, he attended the fine schools for which Holly Springs ha3 always been noted. In 1858 he entered the junior class of the University of Mississippi, and graduated as second honor man in the class of 1860, and afterwards became associate editor with his father of the Southern Herald, and studied law.
At the breaking out of the war, he enlisted as a private in a Holly Springs company, commanded by the gallant Captain Thos. W. Harris. He was the Private Secretary of Gen. Bragg, and afterwards Bragg's Adjutant General. In December 1862, at the age of twenty two, at the request of Gen. Bragg, he was appointed by the Secretary of War, to duty with the staff of the Army of Tennessee, with the rank of Major. He soon became the best known of the officers of that staff. Everybody knew and honored him, from the private soldier to the Commanding General. Thoroughly efficient and strict in the discharge of his official duties, he was at the same time affable, kind and easy of access to all. In the latter part of the year 1865, he became a partner of Hon. John W. C. Watson in the practice of law ; and in the summer of 1866, he receive! his diploma from the law school of the University. But his first love, the newspaper, had an irresistable attraction for him, and in August, 1867, he became associated with his brother in-law Columbus Barrett, as editor of the Holly Springs Reporter. The Reporter immediately took position among the leading papers in the State, and Col. Falconer added largely to his reputation and popularity. In 1868, was nominated as the Democratic candidate for Lieut. Governor, on the ticket with Gov. Humpreys, and he was triumphantly elected. But the same vote which elected him defeated the new Constitution under which the Anti Johnson Republican were seeking to reconstruct the State, and the State was continued in the hands of the military.
At the time of his death he held the office of Secretary of State, having been elected on the Democratic ticket in 1875. Leaving his office in Jackson, where there was no yellow fever, he went to Holly Springs, his native place, right into the jaws of death to comfort his dying father and sick brother, and when both had died, he himself was smitten by the plague, paid the penalty of his sublime devotion to filial affection and noble humanity. Thus has passed away in the zenith of splendid manhood, one of Mississippi's grandest sons, doubly a hero, heroic in war's carnage, grandly heroic in the carnival of pestilence! Peace to thy ashes ! Rest in Heaven through the long ages of eternity to thy great soul ! Another tribute from a writer in the Woodville Republican;
We have strewn the roses on the grave of Kinloch Falconer. Though I knew not Kinloch Falconer, save by reputation, yet was I greatly impressed by the foregoing quotation from a letter recently written from Holly Springs in our devoted State; an obituary of itself; how beautiful! how touching:
It doubtless will be asked, and who was Kinloch Falconer?
The simple answer is, he was a hero,
One who threw himself into the deadly breach,
Self-abregating,sprang to the aid of others
Writhing in toils of that fell destroyer
Now sweeping o'er our land.
strove to save a father and a brother loved,
And when they fell, stood fighting on
For friends, for Grangers, and for all,
Until the insatiate foe struck him,
The shining mark, to earth.
Yet was not Kinloch Falconer but the one,
The single type, of that great Brotherhood,
That God-like band of men, and women too
Who, ignoring ease and comfort, all
Went forth to battle in the philanthropic cause.
To stay the progress of the ruthless foe.
Or fall while battling in the unequal right.
Of that great Brotherhood, now to be number'd
Not by scores, but hundreds, that have fallen.
Were many souls, like Rockwood and an Upham.
Who nobly fought and fell,
And now have gone to reap their great reward.
And yet another Brotherhood, confederate with these,
We see, and recognize with heart and band;
Who, distant from the deadly strife,have shown that "of such" too were they ;
They of the North, the East, the West Who, by their deeds, have won
The love oppressors ne'er could gain.
Published in The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi on November 6, 1878
Kinloch Falconer was the son of Thomas A. Falconer. The 1860 census lists Thomas A. Falconer's occupation as Publisher & Editor. Kinloch Falconer's occupation is listed as Printer. Thomas A. Falconer was born around 1808 and died Sept. 8, 1878 of the Yellow Fever Epidemic. It is possible that he is also buried in Hill Crest Cemetery, but the location is unmarked.
(Info: Robert Patterson)
*************************************
Death of Col. Kinloch Falconer,
Secretary of State.
It is hard to realize that these sad words have to be written. Two weeks ago Col. Falconer left us in good health to attend a sick father at his home in Holly Springs. He reached the bed-side of his parent barely in time to bid him a last adieu. Soon his brother, the gentle, generous and brave Howard Falconer, was taken ill with the prevailing epidemic and was called up his last account. The angel of death next claimed the unselfish and devoted subject of this notice for a victim, and he, too, has been struck down with the robes of a high office upon him, in the meridian of life and the bloom of his useful manhood.
Again has Mississippi been called to weep at the grave of one of her best and truest sons. It will be a pleasing thought to his friends that, in the trying scenes of the last days of his life, he was resigned to the will of his Heavenly Father, Whose mercy and goodness disrobe even the pestilence of its terrors. In a letter written to a friend in this city on the 17th inst., two days before, he was seized with the illness that terminated his life, he thus, as if anticipating the fatal result, expressed the Christian's resignation and faith: "Oh! the scenes here are beyond human power to describe. I realize that there is One alone who can save. My prayer is made to Him and my hope is in him."
Published in The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi on September 25, 1878
*************************************
Dr. J.D. Wood's Tribute to Col. Falconer.
Glasgow (Ky.) Times}
Col. Kinloch Falconer, Secretary of State of Mississippi, died three day ago at Holly Springs with yellow fever. A truer, nobler and more unselfish son Mississippi never had. In the prime of life, and possessing the unbounded confidence of his State, any office within her gift would have been honored by his occupancy. His death will
bring a very heavy gloom to his State an inconsolable bitterness of sorrow to his family and profound regret to his friends everywhere. God grant that the soul of Kinloch Falconer may bask in the eternal sunshine of heavenly glory.
Published in The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi on October 2, 1878
*************************************
THE LATE KINLOCH FALCONER
A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Starkville Citizen. - In 1857 the editor of the Oktibbeha Citizen was editor of the Marshall Democrat in Holly Springs, Kinloch's father was the editor of the Holly Springs Herald. Howard, an older brother of Kinloch's were both boys and did all the work in their father's office . It affords us a melancholy pleasure to be able to embalm his memory in the columns of the Citizen, and make a brief mention of his short and brilliant career. We became acquainted with him in his early boyhood, when his smiling face would once a week illuminate the Democrat office, as carrier boy of the Herald. The Falconers were a talented family, and left their mark on all they touched. But this brief notice is devoted to Kinloch.
As soon as Kinloch was old enough, he became an apprentice in his father's office, where he was inducted into all the mysteries of printing to be learned in a country newspaper office. He was by turns, devil, carrier, roller boy, typo and pressman. He became a thorough printer in all branches, and was known eventually as one of the fastest compositors and best office managers in the State. But his general education was not neglected during his apprenticeship. When he could be spared from the office, he attended the fine schools for which Holly Springs ha3 always been noted. In 1858 he entered the junior class of the University of Mississippi, and graduated as second honor man in the class of 1860, and afterwards became associate editor with his father of the Southern Herald, and studied law.
At the breaking out of the war, he enlisted as a private in a Holly Springs company, commanded by the gallant Captain Thos. W. Harris. He was the Private Secretary of Gen. Bragg, and afterwards Bragg's Adjutant General. In December 1862, at the age of twenty two, at the request of Gen. Bragg, he was appointed by the Secretary of War, to duty with the staff of the Army of Tennessee, with the rank of Major. He soon became the best known of the officers of that staff. Everybody knew and honored him, from the private soldier to the Commanding General. Thoroughly efficient and strict in the discharge of his official duties, he was at the same time affable, kind and easy of access to all. In the latter part of the year 1865, he became a partner of Hon. John W. C. Watson in the practice of law ; and in the summer of 1866, he receive! his diploma from the law school of the University. But his first love, the newspaper, had an irresistable attraction for him, and in August, 1867, he became associated with his brother in-law Columbus Barrett, as editor of the Holly Springs Reporter. The Reporter immediately took position among the leading papers in the State, and Col. Falconer added largely to his reputation and popularity. In 1868, was nominated as the Democratic candidate for Lieut. Governor, on the ticket with Gov. Humpreys, and he was triumphantly elected. But the same vote which elected him defeated the new Constitution under which the Anti Johnson Republican were seeking to reconstruct the State, and the State was continued in the hands of the military.
At the time of his death he held the office of Secretary of State, having been elected on the Democratic ticket in 1875. Leaving his office in Jackson, where there was no yellow fever, he went to Holly Springs, his native place, right into the jaws of death to comfort his dying father and sick brother, and when both had died, he himself was smitten by the plague, paid the penalty of his sublime devotion to filial affection and noble humanity. Thus has passed away in the zenith of splendid manhood, one of Mississippi's grandest sons, doubly a hero, heroic in war's carnage, grandly heroic in the carnival of pestilence! Peace to thy ashes ! Rest in Heaven through the long ages of eternity to thy great soul ! Another tribute from a writer in the Woodville Republican;
We have strewn the roses on the grave of Kinloch Falconer. Though I knew not Kinloch Falconer, save by reputation, yet was I greatly impressed by the foregoing quotation from a letter recently written from Holly Springs in our devoted State; an obituary of itself; how beautiful! how touching:
It doubtless will be asked, and who was Kinloch Falconer?
The simple answer is, he was a hero,
One who threw himself into the deadly breach,
Self-abregating,sprang to the aid of others
Writhing in toils of that fell destroyer
Now sweeping o'er our land.
strove to save a father and a brother loved,
And when they fell, stood fighting on
For friends, for Grangers, and for all,
Until the insatiate foe struck him,
The shining mark, to earth.
Yet was not Kinloch Falconer but the one,
The single type, of that great Brotherhood,
That God-like band of men, and women too
Who, ignoring ease and comfort, all
Went forth to battle in the philanthropic cause.
To stay the progress of the ruthless foe.
Or fall while battling in the unequal right.
Of that great Brotherhood, now to be number'd
Not by scores, but hundreds, that have fallen.
Were many souls, like Rockwood and an Upham.
Who nobly fought and fell,
And now have gone to reap their great reward.
And yet another Brotherhood, confederate with these,
We see, and recognize with heart and band;
Who, distant from the deadly strife,have shown that "of such" too were they ;
They of the North, the East, the West Who, by their deeds, have won
The love oppressors ne'er could gain.
Published in The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi on November 6, 1878
(Info: Robert Patterson)
*************************************
Death of Col. Kinloch Falconer,
Secretary of State.
It is hard to realize that these sad words have to be written. Two weeks ago Col. Falconer left us in good health to attend a sick father at his home in Holly Springs. He reached the bed-side of his parent barely in time to bid him a last adieu. Soon his brother, the gentle, generous and brave Howard Falconer, was taken ill with the prevailing epidemic and was called up his last account. The angel of death next claimed the unselfish and devoted subject of this notice for a victim, and he, too, has been struck down with the robes of a high office upon him, in the meridian of life and the bloom of his useful manhood.
Again has Mississippi been called to weep at the grave of one of her best and truest sons. It will be a pleasing thought to his friends that, in the trying scenes of the last days of his life, he was resigned to the will of his Heavenly Father, Whose mercy and goodness disrobe even the pestilence of its terrors. In a letter written to a friend in this city on the 17th inst., two days before, he was seized with the illness that terminated his life, he thus, as if anticipating the fatal result, expressed the Christian's resignation and faith: "Oh! the scenes here are beyond human power to describe. I realize that there is One alone who can save. My prayer is made to Him and my hope is in him."
Published in The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi on September 25, 1878
*************************************
Dr. J.D. Wood's Tribute to Col. Falconer.
Glasgow (Ky.) Times}
Col. Kinloch Falconer, Secretary of State of Mississippi, died three day ago at Holly Springs with yellow fever. A truer, nobler and more unselfish son Mississippi never had. In the prime of life, and possessing the unbounded confidence of his State, any office within her gift would have been honored by his occupancy. His death will
bring a very heavy gloom to his State an inconsolable bitterness of sorrow to his family and profound regret to his friends everywhere. God grant that the soul of Kinloch Falconer may bask in the eternal sunshine of heavenly glory.
Published in The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi on October 2, 1878
*************************************
THE LATE KINLOCH FALCONER
A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Starkville Citizen. - In 1857 the editor of the Oktibbeha Citizen was editor of the Marshall Democrat in Holly Springs, Kinloch's father was the editor of the Holly Springs Herald. Howard, an older brother of Kinloch's were both boys and did all the work in their father's office . It affords us a melancholy pleasure to be able to embalm his memory in the columns of the Citizen, and make a brief mention of his short and brilliant career. We became acquainted with him in his early boyhood, when his smiling face would once a week illuminate the Democrat office, as carrier boy of the Herald. The Falconers were a talented family, and left their mark on all they touched. But this brief notice is devoted to Kinloch.
As soon as Kinloch was old enough, he became an apprentice in his father's office, where he was inducted into all the mysteries of printing to be learned in a country newspaper office. He was by turns, devil, carrier, roller boy, typo and pressman. He became a thorough printer in all branches, and was known eventually as one of the fastest compositors and best office managers in the State. But his general education was not neglected during his apprenticeship. When he could be spared from the office, he attended the fine schools for which Holly Springs ha3 always been noted. In 1858 he entered the junior class of the University of Mississippi, and graduated as second honor man in the class of 1860, and afterwards became associate editor with his father of the Southern Herald, and studied law.
At the breaking out of the war, he enlisted as a private in a Holly Springs company, commanded by the gallant Captain Thos. W. Harris. He was the Private Secretary of Gen. Bragg, and afterwards Bragg's Adjutant General. In December 1862, at the age of twenty two, at the request of Gen. Bragg, he was appointed by the Secretary of War, to duty with the staff of the Army of Tennessee, with the rank of Major. He soon became the best known of the officers of that staff. Everybody knew and honored him, from the private soldier to the Commanding General. Thoroughly efficient and strict in the discharge of his official duties, he was at the same time affable, kind and easy of access to all. In the latter part of the year 1865, he became a partner of Hon. John W. C. Watson in the practice of law ; and in the summer of 1866, he receive! his diploma from the law school of the University. But his first love, the newspaper, had an irresistable attraction for him, and in August, 1867, he became associated with his brother in-law Columbus Barrett, as editor of the Holly Springs Reporter. The Reporter immediately took position among the leading papers in the State, and Col. Falconer added largely to his reputation and popularity. In 1868, was nominated as the Democratic candidate for Lieut. Governor, on the ticket with Gov. Humpreys, and he was triumphantly elected. But the same vote which elected him defeated the new Constitution under which the Anti Johnson Republican were seeking to reconstruct the State, and the State was continued in the hands of the military.
At the time of his death he held the office of Secretary of State, having been elected on the Democratic ticket in 1875. Leaving his office in Jackson, where there was no yellow fever, he went to Holly Springs, his native place, right into the jaws of death to comfort his dying father and sick brother, and when both had died, he himself was smitten by the plague, paid the penalty of his sublime devotion to filial affection and noble humanity. Thus has passed away in the zenith of splendid manhood, one of Mississippi's grandest sons, doubly a hero, heroic in war's carnage, grandly heroic in the carnival of pestilence! Peace to thy ashes ! Rest in Heaven through the long ages of eternity to thy great soul ! Another tribute from a writer in the Woodville Republican;
We have strewn the roses on the grave of Kinloch Falconer. Though I knew not Kinloch Falconer, save by reputation, yet was I greatly impressed by the foregoing quotation from a letter recently written from Holly Springs in our devoted State; an obituary of itself; how beautiful! how touching:
It doubtless will be asked, and who was Kinloch Falconer?
The simple answer is, he was a hero,
One who threw himself into the deadly breach,
Self-abregating,sprang to the aid of others
Writhing in toils of that fell destroyer
Now sweeping o'er our land.
strove to save a father and a brother loved,
And when they fell, stood fighting on
For friends, for Grangers, and for all,
Until the insatiate foe struck him,
The shining mark, to earth.
Yet was not Kinloch Falconer but the one,
The single type, of that great Brotherhood,
That God-like band of men, and women too
Who, ignoring ease and comfort, all
Went forth to battle in the philanthropic cause.
To stay the progress of the ruthless foe.
Or fall while battling in the unequal right.
Of that great Brotherhood, now to be number'd
Not by scores, but hundreds, that have fallen.
Were many souls, like Rockwood and an Upham.
Who nobly fought and fell,
And now have gone to reap their great reward.
And yet another Brotherhood, confederate with these,
We see, and recognize with heart and band;
Who, distant from the deadly strife,have shown that "of such" too were they ;
They of the North, the East, the West Who, by their deeds, have won
The love oppressors ne'er could gain.
Published in The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi on November 6, 1878
Inscription
A A G Army of Tenn CSA "Sec. of State under Stone"
Gravesite Details
There are two grave markers. There is also a Memorial Monument in memory of the editors of the Mississippi Press Association who died of yellow fever in 1878 - located in the William J L Holland plot.
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