Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-26

utsd to on this occasion by brinRiD
hither their daughters and grand
daughters, we and our eontempors
ries were young then-in thos
good old days his home was the cente
Of q most genial hospitality, wher
every young man of worth an
merit was made to feel himself a
home. There are many of US who ar
now staid fathers, and quiet mothers
that remember with vivid emotions 0
grateful pleasure his kindly sympathy
with the young, and the good moral ia
luences exacted in his family circle, II
the times when zoe " went q gypsyinl
some twenty years ago" His memory
Is indelibly fixed In the minds of th0s'
" Old Folks" who were young folk
twenty and twenty-five years ago
Quick In his temperament to resent in.
jury, he was equally quick in his justict
and magnanimity when convinced he
was in error. An occurrence betwixt
him and the late Mai. Marcus B. Win
chester, contemporaries and friends in
their settlement in Memphis, will Illus
trate this trait in his character. I forget
the exact occasion, but 10 the adjustment
of some perplexing business Maj. Ander-
son became irritated to an unusual de-
gree, and in his frank, manly, i'm
| petuOus way, blurted out his indig-
nation at what he supposed at the mo-
ment was Mai. Wholesalers indispo-
sitiOn to deal fairly "Maj Winches-
ter, II you insist on that you are a
rascal, sir.p Winchester rose to his feet,
with that courtly dignity for which he
was 50 distinguished, and with perfectly
unrutfied temper, bowling as only Chester
field could have bowed, responded 81
am very sorry, Anderson. that you could
possibly think So" Troubled at once Ey
q sense of injustice, he grasped his friend
by the hand, and exclaimed "StOp,
Winchester, did il ! do think SOL was
wrong " and the old friendship went on
undiminished. Peace 30 his ashes He
died as he had lived, a good, useful eiti-
zen, a patriot and a true hearted gentle
man.
Col. William D. Ferguson, vice-Presi-
dent of the "Old Folks" organization,
was a somewhat different, but not less
excellent type of the ''old folksn ofan ear
lier time. One who knew him WE'LL and
who to the renown he has himself long
enjoyed as first of jurists and poets, as
well as soldier, is now adding that of
statesman journalist, on the occasion OF
an old friends departure paid this Just
tribute to his mother.
From the Memphis APPEAL, June5 5, 1857
A GOOD ann TRUE Man GoNE-Aner a long
and wasting illness, borne with a beautiful
eqnanimity and patience byone utterly unused
all his long life to tire lonely confinement Of a
sick room, our old friend, true and loyal always
through good and evil report, has gone Ito his
last home, and the mourners 60 abeut the
We first met william A.. Ferguson, at Little
Rock, in October. 1888. He was then a little
over thirty-threey years of age, having been bonn
on the N1a nf HHmrnAT uQm MFa EnaVr LsAn mall
from that time until his death on Monday last.
as a useful. honest, worthy man, thoughtful, OF
sound judgment and great practical gOodsense,
a patriotic citizen, deeply interested in public
affairs, eaFer TO serve his county, but not ambi-
tious or office, and one who never forgot when
a public man., that he had some stock in the
pubic morality"
Mr.. Ferguson was in 1888 a member OF the
council, or upper body, OF the territorial legis-
latqrs OF 2rltafsas, representing CilIJenden
comfy. Amer he territory mad become q state
ha retained the confidence oT his Constituents,
and again and sgain represented them, and
was Otherwise useiully connected with public
affair, rendering railways valuable service. Not
literally edagatea, hui originally p Surveyor,
he was a good type OF the frank and StalWart
frontier man OF thOSs earlS days IN Arkansas.
and he had, ~ he was w~elientitied TO have. the
respect Of all with whom he was associated in
the public service.
There are few EFT now, Of those who were
men Of any mark in Arkansas in the days
when It was a territory. Ofthose who remain.
no one will hear of the death OF Mr.. Ferguson
without pain and sorrow. As the old friends
become fewer and fewer, We value the more
those who remain, and the loss Of each, as they
vanish one by one. leaves a void that is never
l. b1 nlled. But their memories remsin, aud
they are thought Of by us with fondness and
q4ectinn. taer-, Trey only go away 70 =
distance nom MS anu by and by ne shall fcl-.
low themG The stars ser but they fissSagainy=
Col. Thomas B. Crenshaw was of the
highest type Of the Intelligent, public
spirited country gentleman. Full of
years, though when last we saw him, in
the full vigOr Of ripened and matuFed
manhood, ne has passed into the g better
where the demon of civil war
will no more atilict his patriotic spirit, or
sap, as here, the roots of life. He was
one Of peture's noblemen.
Ahq tae others OF this band of our
brothers WIG haye CONS before us,
pioneers to the spirit land, ghete the
good old folks OF all ages have found a
home with the ~blesssd-What shall | say
of them? Your own hearts are the tab
lets wherein are inscribed their virtues
and their worth and while these en-
dure, there will be a perpetual record.
OF Felts, the faithful public officer, the /
good citizen, the kindly neighbor, and
tgua friend.
0fPoston, The pEre minded christian
gentleman, the HONEST ana aDie lawyer, /
the sincere and frank patriot, who, amidst
the mad unreason of the times, COM
manded the respect and confidence
alike of federal and Confederate COM
bstants.
OF William R. Smith, the ardent, earn
est friend, tae Straightforward, hon
sst man and good citizen, the agrsra-
Die companion of the few who
his intimate friendship, |
the rough diamond of many excel
hidden from strangers by the
nodesty af lis tr4iY npbis n4tara.
OF William FalWell, the successful
banker, whose naturally genial dispOsi-
ion expanded the sympathies and feel
ngs which cluster about these cold
Folks y associations, as flowers awaken
Inder the embrace Of the fr~uctifying sum
light.
OF Dan. B0gart, one of the toilers who
up Memphis, and who preserved
through years of falling health his serene
hearfulness-carrying his burden with
nut a murugr to the grave where he has
ain down to rest.
OF William G. Byant, the frank, the
yhOle-hearted and b~ig-hearted, with his
manly courage and his womanIy tender
less of sympathy with human distress or
unering-lpt Eithogt bis faults or frail-
les, eertainiy-as VAC has them not e.
ut with solid worth and real virtues
hat Overiaid and redeemed them all,
.ying aereneiy and resignedlY, like a
christian gentlemen, sOGthed and blessed
With the solemn rites OF religion, adj
ninistered by a fellow. soldier, summoned
y him to his side, TO that end, while he
gas yet in the full possession Of his fac
lilies.
OF Samuel T. Morgan, the we'll resd,
7ell-informed, cultivated man of books,
the public-spirited man Of business,
aldermGnic career excited a mark
d influence on the municipal affairs Of
Iemphis for q number of years pasta
IAN fitted to occupy a front seat in the
lnks Of men of broad, comprehensive
Kinds, and q real loss to the community
which he lived; and, lastly, of John
Vildberger, whose going from amongst
is yet so fresh that the flowers which
our festivity are damp with the
ews Of our bereavement-for there was
luch, very much in him to love, and
here are very many who loved him.
What can say but that they are gone,
less comrades of twenty years service
/ the battle OF life, and we shall see
lem no more on earth forever. We miss I
lem to-day, and our hearts are full Of I
that so much of worth, of good
ess, OF usefulness, of all that makes life [
Apply and glorious, is sent away from {
Well might we turn and weep, for s
"'tis manliness \
To be heart-broken here /
Yet, Though our ranks are thinned, :
lere still remains to Us a host of the !
and stalwaTt "OId FolksH to =
.adden and dispense the inequalities of :
lr "homeD meath the greenwood trees, :
no, from their lusty appearance, will =
Intinue to do so long after scores and :
ores of these charming young maidens !
TALL have been transformed into exem- .
airy wives 10 the fine young fellows of 7
le Old kolks, family. Take our EN- :
ent president, Col. Charles d. Mclean, :.
r example. Though upwards of three :
ore and ten, you can all see that he and =
d father Time get on together "the :
st IN the tOOTId." Then out there is nv :
d friend Saml. MoManus, Esq, who y
as already a " man of mark" when he =
no addresses you was still a +" printer :
"" under the late Henry Van Pelt, !
under Of the Memphis APPEAL, look y
g and feeling like q fine old boy of the :.
den times when active men were :
sde-as he was and is. :
And speaking Of this newspaper, now u
ably conducted by Gen. Albert Pike,
guests that, probably, from my long n
nneXiOn with the press of Memphis :,
Id West Tennessee, something like a !
eteh of ifs early history NAV ne ax- =