Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-09-23

MCOANN.-On MONDAY morning. sep
TENDER 20, 1867. about ! o'clock, at the
residence Of w. c. Morris, Esq, JeffeE-
son street extended, Dr. George W.
Nee I'm, late President Of the Southern
Life Insurance Company Of Memphis in
the ooh year Of bis age. ueerr
Our valued friend was a native of the
State of New York, but long resident
of the West and South. A practitioner
Of medicine for number Of years in Iu-
diana and Iowa, he subsequently aban.
doned his profession for the business Of
Life Insurance, to which he devoted
himself with great energy and remArka-
BILE success, being one of the principal
originators and first President Of the
Southern Life Insurance Co., itself a
worthy monument to his sagacity, talent
and zeal Possessing also in an eminent
degree those sterling qualities which con.
stitute the chief grace and symmetry of
true manhood, he will long be missed
from the circle of social life as one of its
crown,jewels never to be replaced, and
mourned with special and nameless
sorrow by those beloved ones who knew
him in the more intimate relations Of
life.
THOMPSON On Sunday evening, Sep
TENDER %, 1867, at the residence OF w. G.
Morris, Esq, Jefferson street, extended,
Mr.. Geo. W. Thompson, late book keeper
of the Southern Life Insurance com
pany, Of Memphis, in about the 25th
year of his age.
Mr.. Thompson was native of Massa
ohusetts, but had passed his early youth
in Rochester, N. Y, where his parents
still reside. He had been for number
of years in the South, and will be re-
membered by very many of our citizens
as Chief Clerk and Cashier of the Mill.
tary railroads of this Department during
the war, in which important trust, as in
all others Of business character, he dis
played an ability and fidelity, only
exceeded by those conspicuous social
virtues, which endeared him so init.
mately to al! who knew and truly appre.
ciated the manly tenderness and amia
bility fhis character. MOO a
In rendering this brief and necessarily
imperfect notice of our departed fellow
citizens, who but yesterday as it we're
walked among US, wearing the flush of
hope and busted with the active duties
of the hour, it is proper to add that they
both fell victims to that malarial form of
disease, which we may not designate
with medical accuracy, but which is
common to our climate, and known to
be in its congestive manifestations so
frequently fatal. They were warm friends
and associates Of Mr.. Morris, the general
agent of the Southern Life, tenderly at
tached TO his family. dwelling under the
same roof, and under the same roof sink
ing peacefully to rest, cherished with
the sympsthies, guarded with the watch
fitness and wept for with the tears of
love only next in sacredness to that of
wife, sister or mother. Let US not mourn
for them as those without hope, but take
to our own hearts as personal warning
of Gods nearness and power, the sad
and startling coincidence of their death.
We learn that after temporary de-
post in the vault at Elmwood, the re.
mains of DIR. McCarn will be sent to Mrs.
McCarn and relatives at Davenport,
Iowa, and those Of Mr.. Thompson to his
parents, at Rochester, as soon as it is
practicable to forward them through.
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