Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-03
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MEL wfLLiAMC. SCOTT, OF Po"HATAN.
At a court of quarterly session, begun and held
for the county OF Powhatan, at the courthouse
thereof on Monday the 9th day of February, 1866
the committee appointed at May court 1855, to pre-
pare suitable resolutions in memory Of Colonel Wm
C. Scott, deceased, this day made the following re-
port, which was unanimously adopted:
At meeting composed OF members OF the court,
of the bar and of the people of the county at Pow
hatan court house. on the first Monday in May, 1865,
Mr. Richard l. Cooke Announced the death OF Col.
William c. Scott. and moved that committee be
appointed to draft resolutions suitable to the occa
siOn and report the same to the court ut its June
term following, whereupon Messrs. Cooke, Fnney
and Brown were appointed, who, owing to the fact
that there no courts for several months after
May, this day submitted the following preamble and
resolutions:
WHEREAS, In the midst of our calamites, as a
people, have been called by the sad dispensation
of an overruling Providence to the loss of an
eminently useful and distinguished citizen, and to
mingle our individual and private sorrows with the
public regret at the death of much loved fellow
citizen Colonel William c. Scott who departed this
life ON the 7th of April 1865 at his residence in the
county of Powhatan, in the 18th year Of his age
therefore,
l. Rcsolred, That We cannot permit this melan.
choly event, which has sunk so deeply into the
hearts of all who knew him, to pass by without
some public and lasting manifestation OF our esteem
and admiration for his many excellent and noble
qualities both of heart and head, and our fond and
lively recollection of those traits in his character
which endeared him to his friends while he lived
and render his memory sacred and precious TO us
now that he is gone. -
.. ReSOIrcd, That while his warm, generous, un.
selfish and atectionate disposition; his rare social
qualities the fidelity of his friendship; diSinterested
devotion to his parents and sisters, nephews and
neceS for whom he everready TO sacrifice himself
will ever keep his memory fresh and green in the re-
collection of all who had the pleasure Of knowing him
well and intimately; We also add as members of the
court, before whom he has so long practiced with
honor and distinction: as his associates Mt the bar
with whom he ever maintained such agreeable rela-
tons; rs cOuntymen. whom he has SO often and so
faithfully served in the councils of the State and
citizens of Virginia in whose defence he again and
again perlled his life the memorable battle fields
Ofthe late unhappy civil conflict would beg leave to
add our sincere tribute to his professional talents
his sound requirements his earnest and impressive
eOquence his patriotic devotion to the public veal,
and his dauntess courage and chvalry as man and
as an officer.
g. ResOired, That as we recall those distinctive
traits and virtues, which made him respected and
loved, we do no more than simple justice to his
worth, and but express the candid convictions OF
our judgments in saying that in the life and charac
ter, public and private, of Colonel Scott there
much to admire, and little to depore was to he
seen in that of any man.
L. ReSOired, That, as further mark of respect.
the members of the court and bar will wear the usual
badge of mourning for thirty days.
8. Resolred, That the clerk of this court be
directed to transcrbe and place the foregoing pre-.
amble and resolutions among the minutes of the
court and that he send the same to one or more
newspapers in the city of Richmond for publication.
cOpy-Teste,
II. +. GRAVES, Clerk.
City papers please copy.