The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-30

Departed this life October 23d, 1874, at his
residence, in Maury county, THOMAS u.
FRIERSON, aged 81 years.
THOMAS GADSDFN FRIERSON was born in
Maury county, in the neighbOrhOOd of Zion
church, on the 4th day of February, 1873.
He was widely and favorably known
throughout the western portion of the coun-
ty and in the counties adjoining Maury on
the west. No truer, more upright or correct
man in all his intercourse and dealings
with his fellOW-men, eVer1iVed in the coun-
ty than he was, as everyone will testify VINO
knew him. The writer of this notice knew
him intimately from his earliest bOyhoOd,
through manhood and down to the period
of his death, and he feels sure he never had
a truer, warner or more devoted TREND.
Although Cad, as he was always tamill-
arly called. was some three or four years
older than your correspondents; yet, living
in sight of each other, they attended the
same schools, participated in the same boy,
ish amuSementS, and grew up to manhood
in the closest friendShip-a friendship ma
tured by almost daily intercourse, and the
the friendship remained unbrOken all alon
through life, Notwithstanding our buSine g
engagements in latter life interrupted, in
great degree. our former Intercourse and de-
prived US of the enjoyment of that social
intimacy which, characterized our earlier
life; yet we never met that the writer did
not find him the same true friend and agree
able companion he had always been. There
was nothing about him in appearance, dress
manners, false, deceptive or unnatural;
nothing about him but had the ring of the
true metal. He was plain and unaSsuming
in his manners; straightforward and up
right in department; generous and self
sacrificing to fault; kind, Obliglng and af-
fable in all his intercourse with his acquain-
lance; and, in a word, one of natures no.
blemen.
In early life, while but a youth, he was
soTely afflicted and distressed with asthma,
when, by the advice of a physician, he was
induced to trough it," as we say-hunt, fish g,
etc, in any and all sorts of weather, by day
and by night, and the result was complete
triumph over and exemption from the dis
ease. He became in early life the NimrOd
of hunters and the Walton of the rod and
reel; and in many and many hunt and
fishing excursion has the writer, in early
bOyhoOd, followed his track as a disciple
and companion. And here let me say that
in all my long and intimate acquaintance
with him, he never uttered reprOachful
word or did an unkind act to me, though
sure that it was discovered when boy. AS
q WOOdsman he had no superior; and if his
lot in life had been cast in the "far West"
he would have answered for the picture of
HaWk-eYe or Misunderstanding, as drawn
by Cooper, the great American novelist.
He was never married but lived the life of
a bachelor, with a heart and home ever
open to the welcome of his friends. He
will be missed in the neighbOrhOOd where
he lived he will be missed in the church
he attended; he will be missed by the camp
fire on the hunt, which he always cheered
and enlivened by his presence. He left one
brother, Robert w. Frierson, and two sis
tiers, Mrs. F. H Watkins and Mrs. James A.
Fleming, all younger than himself. He has
left many friends and companions, who,
with tho writer, will here drop tear to his
memory. r.