Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-03-02
Another Good Man Gone.

But short time has elapsed since the meanchol-
ly intelligence reached of the decease of SAMUEL
STACKER, ESQ.,. one of inc Oldest, best and most re-
spectacle citizens of our neighboring and sister
county ofStewart. In the full vgor OF green old
age, in sound bodily health and unimpaired intel
lectua faculties, he was cut down, like ripe sheaf
ready for the garner.
For many years Mr. Stacker has occupied pro-
minent position as one Of the most distinguished
business men of the State Of Tennessee. We are
not sufficiently familar with his history to give
any biographical details-but il is enough TO say
that he was exclusively the architect of his own
fortune having commenced life as stone mason
lone OF the first jobs that he ever done was uuder-
took and accomplished and he always accomplished
what he undertook was the building of the stone
pillars for the old Nashville bridget, by his energy
integrity and fair dealing, he succeeded in few
years in amassng one of the finest estates in Middle
Tennessee.
From Nashville he removed at an early day to
"Old Lafayette Furnace in Montgomery county,
where, for many years, he was engaged in the man
ufacture of pig iron and where he laid the founda-
ton of that beautiful fortune which heso literally
enjoyed and so Hospitality graced in his later years.
From thence lie removed to Cumberland Rolling
Mil, in Stewart county, of which fine property he
had the exclusive active management as a partner
for number of years and where his active business
energy, personal integrity judgment and tact, pro-
uuCeu those natural results NIlcn always FOLLOW
those characteristics, when exerted in a fair field
In few years he was enabled to dispose of his in
terest in the Rolling Mill and retire to n beautiful
and secluded country seat in told Stewart" whose
charms a Paladn might have enyied and around
which the declining years of a long active and
eminenty useful life were spent in gathering and
boarding all the charms of cultivated TASTE all the
allurcnens of the fine arts and all the comforts of
social life, rendered still more enchanting by the
most fascinating natural scenery surrounding, that
the eye Of man ever rested upon In Il lone and
sequestercd valley where there was alternate bright
sunshiue and deep shadow, and where there played
IN thesunlight crystal fountains and wndcd silvery
brooks, where there were green pastures, looing
hOcks, aud tinkliug sheep bells "distilling their
liquid music through the rustic evening air /; there
peeped forth from among the tall oaks and bloom
ing fruit trees a splendid white mansion, whose
architectural beauty and convenience had often at-
racted the eye Of the most casual observer. Here,
in the midst Of a circle Of devoted friends, aud sur
rounded by MI the pleasures of serial life all the
comforts that wealth and refinement could procure,
and engaged in pursuits congcnia TO his nature and
disposition passed the serene and cloudess old age
Of Samuel Stacker lie was cheerful, liberal kind
10 the poor hoSpitablo TO strangers unchanging in
his attachment TO his friends, aud unyiedng in his
opposition TO private wrong or public oppression.
1t will be long the place Of this eminent good
and useful man, WILDE appropriately filled in Stew
art county; and there are few OF the humble poor
who visited his lonely grave, that will not pay the
a substantial friend and beReiactor-Pyis Seatind.