Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1871-11-03

Another of our Oldest worthiest and most
highly esteemed citizens is gone.
1t is with exceeding pain we chronicle the de-
mise, on Friday last: of Col. George Baylor of
Stanton, in the 68th year of his age. Col.
Baylor was 3 native Of and resided in Augusta
during his entire life aad from his unfinching
integrity, upright conduct heightened charac-
ter and natural affability, won and retained the
highest confidence of our people up to the day
of his death.
He was for more than twenty years a citizen
of Staunton, and received the evidence of the
esteem Of our people in frequent elections to our
City Council. He was selected with Hon. A. II.
H. Stuart and Col. John B. Baldwin to represent
Augusta in the Convention in 1851, and after
wards represented the County in the Legislature,
in all Of which positions he was most faithful
and efficient representative.
In his domestic relations his kindly feelings
found their fullest vent. A fond wife and a
number of devoted and affectionate children best
attest his worth around the family circle
He was consistent member of the Lutheran
Church, and died in the hope of blissful i'm
mortality.
In every act and stage Of life !; in the public
service, around the family hearth, as a commu-
meant of the Church, practitio ner at our
Bar, of which he was prominent member, and
as a citizen, he walked so that none might cavil.
We sincerely regret his loss, as one of our
most valued and useful citizens, and, as one, who
knew and esteemed him from our earliest boy
hood, we tender our sincerest sympathy to his
deeply bereaved wife and children and host of
sorrowing relatives and friends
In this connection we append the following
tribute of respect to the memory of Col Baylor
by his brother members of our Bar,
In AUGUSTA COUNTY CoURT, Otober 2sth, 1871.
At a meeting Of the members of the Bar, con-
vened at the Courthouse of Augusta county, on
Saturday, the 28th instant, on motion of Geo.
M. Cochran, Jr., Nicholas K. Trout, Esq, was
called 10 the Chair, and, on motion of Col. j. B.
Baldwin, VIM. b. Kayser was appointed Secre-
tary. Thereupon the following resolutions, of.
fered by Judge Hugh W. Shelley, were unan-
mously adopted.
ResoIvea, That the members of this Bar have
heard Win sincere sorrow Of the death of their
brother, Col. GEORGE BAYLOR, who departed this
life at his residence in this City, on Friday. the
27th OF the present month. in the 66th year of
his age.
Resolved That by his uniform courtesy in the
intercourse of professional life by his unwearied
zeal ana assiduitJ in the dieela, u duties;
his earnest devotion and fidelity to the interests
of his clients; his sturdy resistance to wrong,
and defence Of right; and his strict adherence
to his engagements, as an honorable lawyer,
Col. Baylor had, during his long continued pro-
fessonal career won for himself the respect,
esteem and confidence not only of his brother
lawyers, but of the community in which he
lived.
Resozye9, That, by the death of Col. Baylor,
this, his native county, has lost conservative
and trusted citizen, who, as member of the
State Convention of 1861, of the House of Dele
gates of Virginia in the years 1865 to 1857 and
in other positions of public trust, Justly enjoyed
the reputation of being practical, clear-headed
and upright public servant. Society has lost
one Of its most public spirited and earnest mind
ed members; the Church to which e belonged
devoted and liberal supporter; and bis own
immediate family has been deprived of one, who
as husband and father, was endeared to them by
the tenderest ties of indulgent kindness and I'M
varying love; and coming, as he did, to his
death with nncloudel intellect and calm compo-
sure, and, We trust and believe, as he turned his
face from time to eternity, with the comfort of a
reasonable religious and holy hope in peace
with his fellow-men, and with Gods favor rest
ing upon him, the sorrow Of his friends at his
death is soothed by the thought, that an honored
and good man has been gathered to his fathers,
and that liie's tolls and sorrows for him, being
now over, he rests we'll.
Resotued, That we cordially tender to the FAM
ny OF our deceased brother, our warm and heart
felt sympathy with them in their bereavement;
and also the assurance, that our coincidence with
them is mingled with sorrow for ourselves, at
the loss of an honored brother and valued
friend.
Res0zred That the Chair appoint a Committee
to present the foregoing resolutions to The Conn
ty and Circuit Courts Of Augusta County, and
respectful J to request that they be spread upon
the order books Of said Courts. i'0
Resol0ed That the members of this Bar will
in a body, attend the funeral of our deceased
brother.
4Res07ued That the newspapers of the City BE
requested to publish these resolutions.
Copy-teste,
WIN, A. BURNETT, Clerk