The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-01-02

Inc SUBJECT OF JlllS DflcI bflDuge,
Mr.. Booker Shapard, was born in
Caswell county, N. c., February
18th, 1903. His father moved to
Tennessee in 1912, and In 1919 de
ceased was orphaned by the death
of his mothes. ar. Shapard first
settled in Williamson county for
two years, Moved thence to Wilson,
thence to Smith, and thence to
Rutherford. In 1917 deceased was
bound out to the saddler's trade, in
1920 professed religion and joined
the first Methodist church ever
built in Murfreesboro-moved to
Shelbyville from old Jefferson in
1880, and was living there AZ the
time OF the great tornado which
nearly destroyed the town, and in
1888, when cholera depopulated
that fated town, lost his first wife
In 1885 having remarked, he novel
to Mulberry, in Lincoln county, and
built the first house in the village
now known by that name. The
house has stood the ravages of time
and decay until this day. In 1910
deceased moved to Pulaski and en-
gagged in merchandising, until 1861,
when his store was robbed by Fed
eral soldiery and he with others
exiled by a ruthless order from the
Post Commandment, as a representa-
tive citizen. In 1865 the restors-
ton of peace found him broken in
fortune, decrepid with age, feeble
in health, and crushed in everything
save his trust in God. Henceforth
he INDUCED few worldly aspirations,
but lived close to the foot of the
cross of Christ, and sought nothing
higher than the comforts of religion
and the peace, prosperity and. hap
piness of his family, church, friends
and county. On the Oath day of
April last, after having suffered
many weeks with fistula, he was
forced to succumb to the hand of
disease, destined never to recover.
For eight months and three days
he was confined to his room and
bed, by the wasting and painful dis
ease mentioned, having only ven
tured out few times with supports
during a brief interval of GONZALES
cence. During his entire illness,
and even in the midst of his great
est suferings, he continually gave
thanks and praises to God for the
consultations of the religion which
he had 80 long and so faithfully
professed. Conscious of approach
ing dissolution, he made all things
ready, even to the details of his fu-
neral, the time and place of his
burial, gave the writer the above
facts and requested him to incor-
porate them into q brief notice of
his death, selected the text phil.
lst chap, 21st verse "For me TO
live is Christ, and to die is GAIN"
for his funeral discourse, requested
to be buried on Sunday if possible,
asked Rev. w. II. Hughes to con-
duct the services, appointed his
pail bearers, aud on the 18th of De
cember, 1872, at the age of nearly
70 years, he went to sleep peacefully
and without a struggle in the arms
of his Savior. So intense and so
long protracted had been the suffer
ing of deceased, and so unmistaka-
BILE were the evidences of his prepa-
ration for death, that his family
and friends were hardly unwilling
to see him released by death. He
WAS u uEOJuCE W JHS AdbO W. ID.
Shapard, Of Nashville, and of the
late R. B. Shapard, of Shelbyville,
and was the last of his family. He
was the father of Capt. John T.
Shapard, deceased, and of our
friends Isaac L. and Robert Shap-
ard. of this place. He leaves an
aged ami discOnsolate widow, who
has been the companion of his joys
and sorrows for many years, who
nursed and ministered to him in
tenderness and with unccasing as
siduity to the last. To her and to
his orphaned daughters we espe-
cially invoke the blessing of Heav-
en-, and may even this great bereave-
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