TRIBUTE OF RESPECT (clipping pasted in Bible of Mary Emma Crowell Whitaker)
At a regular communication of Holsey Lodge, No. 68 of A. F. M., held at Glennville, Ala., on the 25th February 1860, a committee, appointed for that purpose, presented the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted.
The comittee beg leave to submit the following resolutions as expressive of the deep sense of our loss in the death of our worthy Brother JAS. A. WHITAKER.
Resolved, That in the death of our beloved Brother, society has lost one of its most useful and upright citizens, Masonry one of its brightest jewels, and our Lodge one of its most devoted and zealous members. Whilst we offer to his family and friends the sympathy of our heartfelt sorrow for their affliction, we indulge the pleasing hope that he has gone to his reward, and has an abiding place in the mansion of that Temple "not made with handseternal in the Heavens."
Resolved, That this Lodge be clothed in mourning, and that we wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be furnished the family of our lamented brother, and the Columbus and Eufaula paper for publication.
A. C. MITCHELL
E. W. CHAPMAN
W. E. BARNETT
JOSEPH JONES
OBITUARY (Clipping pasted in Bible of Mary Emma Crowell Whitaker)
At his residence in Russell County, Ala., on the 15th day of February, 1860, JAMES A. WHITAKER. He was born on the 18th day of June, 1812, and was in the forty-eighth year of his age.
He was the incumbant of the office of Sheriff when he died and had discharged the difficult duties of it from the time of his election, in the most faithful and acceptable manner. He was cutoff in the prime of a vigorous manhood, and has gone down to the grave, leaving behind him, it is confidently believed, not an enemy upon the face of the earth. For who could be enmiity with a man so friendly, kind-hearted, and honest.
And within one short week when his father's remains were consigned to the earth, died HENRY CROWELL WHITAKER, his oldest child, on the 22nd day of February, 1860. he was born on the 16th day of February 1841, and was 19 years old on the day his father was buried. He attended the funeral in perfect health, but , on Sunday following, was attacked with the same mysterious malady and died in three days.
He was a very sprightly cheerful minded young man.
The able and experienced physicians who were in attendance on them, were unable to give the disease a name, and frankly confessed that it was something beyond their skill and entirely new to them. They were attacked at first with soreness and swelling of the throat. This subsided and readily yielded to the remedies, but it immediately passed to the chest and lungs, and brought about death in a feafully rapid and violent manner. There have been several other deaths in the immediate neighborhood, or something very much like it.
Thus have passed away, the two main stays of a warm hearted and most interesting lifttle family. The writer hopes he does not invade too much the private sanctity of private life, when he states that he never witnessed more over whelming and desolating angish, than appeared to sweep like a consuming fire over the bereaved wife and mother, one of the most amiable and devoted of her sex, who, in so brief a time, has been called upon to mourn over the loss of her husband and her first born.
May the resources of all upright and religious minds, speedily assuage the grief and mitigate the calamities of this afflicted household.
Father and son repose side by side, in the buring ground at Fort Mitchell.
J. A. L.
At a regular communication of Holsey Lodge, No. 68 of A. F. M., held at Glennville, Ala., on the 25th February 1860, a committee, appointed for that purpose, presented the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted.
The comittee beg leave to submit the following resolutions as expressive of the deep sense of our loss in the death of our worthy Brother JAS. A. WHITAKER.
Resolved, That in the death of our beloved Brother, society has lost one of its most useful and upright citizens, Masonry one of its brightest jewels, and our Lodge one of its most devoted and zealous members. Whilst we offer to his family and friends the sympathy of our heartfelt sorrow for their affliction, we indulge the pleasing hope that he has gone to his reward, and has an abiding place in the mansion of that Temple "not made with handseternal in the Heavens."
Resolved, That this Lodge be clothed in mourning, and that we wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be furnished the family of our lamented brother, and the Columbus and Eufaula paper for publication.
A. C. MITCHELL
E. W. CHAPMAN
W. E. BARNETT
JOSEPH JONES
OBITUARY (Clipping pasted in Bible of Mary Emma Crowell Whitaker)
At his residence in Russell County, Ala., on the 15th day of February, 1860, JAMES A. WHITAKER. He was born on the 18th day of June, 1812, and was in the forty-eighth year of his age.
He was the incumbant of the office of Sheriff when he died and had discharged the difficult duties of it from the time of his election, in the most faithful and acceptable manner. He was cutoff in the prime of a vigorous manhood, and has gone down to the grave, leaving behind him, it is confidently believed, not an enemy upon the face of the earth. For who could be enmiity with a man so friendly, kind-hearted, and honest.
And within one short week when his father's remains were consigned to the earth, died HENRY CROWELL WHITAKER, his oldest child, on the 22nd day of February, 1860. he was born on the 16th day of February 1841, and was 19 years old on the day his father was buried. He attended the funeral in perfect health, but , on Sunday following, was attacked with the same mysterious malady and died in three days.
He was a very sprightly cheerful minded young man.
The able and experienced physicians who were in attendance on them, were unable to give the disease a name, and frankly confessed that it was something beyond their skill and entirely new to them. They were attacked at first with soreness and swelling of the throat. This subsided and readily yielded to the remedies, but it immediately passed to the chest and lungs, and brought about death in a feafully rapid and violent manner. There have been several other deaths in the immediate neighborhood, or something very much like it.
Thus have passed away, the two main stays of a warm hearted and most interesting lifttle family. The writer hopes he does not invade too much the private sanctity of private life, when he states that he never witnessed more over whelming and desolating angish, than appeared to sweep like a consuming fire over the bereaved wife and mother, one of the most amiable and devoted of her sex, who, in so brief a time, has been called upon to mourn over the loss of her husband and her first born.
May the resources of all upright and religious minds, speedily assuage the grief and mitigate the calamities of this afflicted household.
Father and son repose side by side, in the buring ground at Fort Mitchell.
J. A. L.
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT (clipping pasted in Bible of Mary Emma Crowell Whitaker)
At a regular communication of Holsey Lodge, No. 68 of A. F. M., held at Glennville, Ala., on the 25th February 1860, a committee, appointed for that purpose, presented the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted.
The comittee beg leave to submit the following resolutions as expressive of the deep sense of our loss in the death of our worthy Brother JAS. A. WHITAKER.
Resolved, That in the death of our beloved Brother, society has lost one of its most useful and upright citizens, Masonry one of its brightest jewels, and our Lodge one of its most devoted and zealous members. Whilst we offer to his family and friends the sympathy of our heartfelt sorrow for their affliction, we indulge the pleasing hope that he has gone to his reward, and has an abiding place in the mansion of that Temple "not made with handseternal in the Heavens."
Resolved, That this Lodge be clothed in mourning, and that we wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be furnished the family of our lamented brother, and the Columbus and Eufaula paper for publication.
A. C. MITCHELL
E. W. CHAPMAN
W. E. BARNETT
JOSEPH JONES
OBITUARY (Clipping pasted in Bible of Mary Emma Crowell Whitaker)
At his residence in Russell County, Ala., on the 15th day of February, 1860, JAMES A. WHITAKER. He was born on the 18th day of June, 1812, and was in the forty-eighth year of his age.
He was the incumbant of the office of Sheriff when he died and had discharged the difficult duties of it from the time of his election, in the most faithful and acceptable manner. He was cutoff in the prime of a vigorous manhood, and has gone down to the grave, leaving behind him, it is confidently believed, not an enemy upon the face of the earth. For who could be enmiity with a man so friendly, kind-hearted, and honest.
And within one short week when his father's remains were consigned to the earth, died HENRY CROWELL WHITAKER, his oldest child, on the 22nd day of February, 1860. he was born on the 16th day of February 1841, and was 19 years old on the day his father was buried. He attended the funeral in perfect health, but , on Sunday following, was attacked with the same mysterious malady and died in three days.
He was a very sprightly cheerful minded young man.
The able and experienced physicians who were in attendance on them, were unable to give the disease a name, and frankly confessed that it was something beyond their skill and entirely new to them. They were attacked at first with soreness and swelling of the throat. This subsided and readily yielded to the remedies, but it immediately passed to the chest and lungs, and brought about death in a feafully rapid and violent manner. There have been several other deaths in the immediate neighborhood, or something very much like it.
Thus have passed away, the two main stays of a warm hearted and most interesting lifttle family. The writer hopes he does not invade too much the private sanctity of private life, when he states that he never witnessed more over whelming and desolating angish, than appeared to sweep like a consuming fire over the bereaved wife and mother, one of the most amiable and devoted of her sex, who, in so brief a time, has been called upon to mourn over the loss of her husband and her first born.
May the resources of all upright and religious minds, speedily assuage the grief and mitigate the calamities of this afflicted household.
Father and son repose side by side, in the buring ground at Fort Mitchell.
J. A. L.
At a regular communication of Holsey Lodge, No. 68 of A. F. M., held at Glennville, Ala., on the 25th February 1860, a committee, appointed for that purpose, presented the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted.
The comittee beg leave to submit the following resolutions as expressive of the deep sense of our loss in the death of our worthy Brother JAS. A. WHITAKER.
Resolved, That in the death of our beloved Brother, society has lost one of its most useful and upright citizens, Masonry one of its brightest jewels, and our Lodge one of its most devoted and zealous members. Whilst we offer to his family and friends the sympathy of our heartfelt sorrow for their affliction, we indulge the pleasing hope that he has gone to his reward, and has an abiding place in the mansion of that Temple "not made with handseternal in the Heavens."
Resolved, That this Lodge be clothed in mourning, and that we wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be furnished the family of our lamented brother, and the Columbus and Eufaula paper for publication.
A. C. MITCHELL
E. W. CHAPMAN
W. E. BARNETT
JOSEPH JONES
OBITUARY (Clipping pasted in Bible of Mary Emma Crowell Whitaker)
At his residence in Russell County, Ala., on the 15th day of February, 1860, JAMES A. WHITAKER. He was born on the 18th day of June, 1812, and was in the forty-eighth year of his age.
He was the incumbant of the office of Sheriff when he died and had discharged the difficult duties of it from the time of his election, in the most faithful and acceptable manner. He was cutoff in the prime of a vigorous manhood, and has gone down to the grave, leaving behind him, it is confidently believed, not an enemy upon the face of the earth. For who could be enmiity with a man so friendly, kind-hearted, and honest.
And within one short week when his father's remains were consigned to the earth, died HENRY CROWELL WHITAKER, his oldest child, on the 22nd day of February, 1860. he was born on the 16th day of February 1841, and was 19 years old on the day his father was buried. He attended the funeral in perfect health, but , on Sunday following, was attacked with the same mysterious malady and died in three days.
He was a very sprightly cheerful minded young man.
The able and experienced physicians who were in attendance on them, were unable to give the disease a name, and frankly confessed that it was something beyond their skill and entirely new to them. They were attacked at first with soreness and swelling of the throat. This subsided and readily yielded to the remedies, but it immediately passed to the chest and lungs, and brought about death in a feafully rapid and violent manner. There have been several other deaths in the immediate neighborhood, or something very much like it.
Thus have passed away, the two main stays of a warm hearted and most interesting lifttle family. The writer hopes he does not invade too much the private sanctity of private life, when he states that he never witnessed more over whelming and desolating angish, than appeared to sweep like a consuming fire over the bereaved wife and mother, one of the most amiable and devoted of her sex, who, in so brief a time, has been called upon to mourn over the loss of her husband and her first born.
May the resources of all upright and religious minds, speedily assuage the grief and mitigate the calamities of this afflicted household.
Father and son repose side by side, in the buring ground at Fort Mitchell.
J. A. L.
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