Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1865-03-31
VIRGINIA !:

tn the County Court Of
Augusta, March 1865.
At meeting of the Stanton Bar. held
at the Court House on Monday the 9th Of
March 1865, TIeMAs j. MIcn1E was called
to the Chair and NICHOLAS K TaouT APP
pointed Secretary.
On the motion of Hugh w Shelley The
following resolutions were unanimously
adopted.
= list. Resolred that the members Of this
Bar have learned with profound sorrow that
their friend and brother WILLIAM II HAR.
NAN, whilst CALAMITY railyipg the retreat
ing forces Of the Confederate Army at
Wayn -aborongh. on Thursday the Second
day of March 1865 was shot by the euusny
anu INSTANTLY killed
%. Resolted that amid the many afflc-
tive events which have befallen us as in-id-
uals and as fraternity during these years
OF desolatton and war--events so sad an |
oft recurring as almost to sim our hearts
and paraiyze our emotions--the dispense
| lion we Ibis day mourn stands forth with
startling prominence and solemnity and
tflls US with a grief as heartfelt ard sincere
as if our friend and brother had tallsn when
calamitics were rare and the sense Of them
| was fresh.
81. Resolced, that in the death IF VIII
LIAM II HARTMAN the County has lost an
earnest and warmhearted patriot, society,
an cnterprising and public spirited citizen.
fearless soldier, generous frien1, IN af,
lectionate husband aud father aud kind
and judicious master and the members Of
this Bar 10 peculiar manner are called
! upon to mourn Cor Que whose heart aud
mind were deeply imbued with the noble
and honorable inspirations of the profess
| ion he loved and so greatly ado ned +: whose
unsurpassed skill ability aud success as
Attorney for the Commonwealth in the
County and Circuit Courts of this County,
for the period Of Thirtean years. during
which be filed that respcn sibl 70 Iea, and
whose fidelity zeal aud elequencv as an adj
vocate and counsellor had already won fol
him, altho' young in years, a reputation
we'll calculated to crafty just professional
ambition and which gave assurance, had
his life been spared, Of increased distinction
and honorable preferment-and whose kind
! u smile az 4 manner, warmhearted sinceri.
ty. generousaud cordial hospitality and
high toned sense of honor and gautlemanly
courtesy daily enlarged the circle CT hil
friendships and more and more cndearea tt
him the friends he had already won : and
as We, his friends and brethren, meet to.
gethcr to pay the last tribute to his memo
~ it affords US sad but sincere pleasure
to record that the honor Of our high pro-
fessien was never furnished by word or act
Of our deceased brother, but that it stands
beftrc the world brighter for his example
as gentleman and a lawyer.
4ih Resolced, that whilst we would for.
bear TO intrude upon the sacred sorrows 81
his family we cannot withhold the express.
ION Ct our gr;e.s as we think Of the wife on,
brother loTed aud cherished go t,pderly
,.ow q sorro .,iskep widow, and Of BIZ
six little children, deprived ofa fathers care
and manly protection, and We tender tt
Them the sympat!4ies Of hearts msnrn;ns
with them in their great bereavement
1 9Th. That tho County Court Of Angus
ia County berequested to spread these res
olutiops upon it's records and that copy
fthe same be transmitted By the Sseretar,
Of this meeting to. the family of our de
ceased friend and brother.
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n. K Tseur, sec'ry.
/ A Copy fests.
t WM. a. BURNETT, C.csk