Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-09-22
IN MEMORIAM.
Archibald stuart Hail. mn


on the morning of the 9th of Septem Der
1876. DIR. Archibald Stuart Hall. i,
! the 9th year of his age.
And thus has come to an end tn.
life of one who lived and luboref
not for fortune, ror for tame. but fo,
the good of his fellow men, to sootbt
their SORROWS and to relieve their suf
fering. From his earliest manhood
devoted to the practice of his profes
sion, his life was one continued, neve,
ending'r >nnd of labor, labor that liter
ally ended only with his life, for he had
scarcely finished giving directions for q
patient, ere he himself sank into uncon-
| seriousness that was followed in q few
| hours by death.
DIR. Hall was born on the 22d of
February, 1910, and graduated as
physician at the University of
Pennsylvania in 1882. He was the
sixth son of the late Judge John
Hall. of the State Supreme Court.
His mother was Mary Weldon.
daughter of William Weldon, ESQ of
Halifax courty, Judge Halls parents
were Edward Hall and Eleanor Stuart.
Edward Hall was the son Of Isaac Hall
and Sarah Allison, and came to Vir..
glnla at an early age, with his father,
from County Armagh, iii Ireland The
Stuart family emigrated from Scot
land to Ireland i'll the reign of James
L., and settled in Londonderry, whore
Archibald Stuart was born during tn"
latter part of the seventeenth century.
He married Janet Brown, and latter two
children had been born to him, that is
to say, Thomas ana Eleanor, he be-
came involved in some rebelIious
M 0nrlt
about the year 1927, obliged to flee the
country. He first found refuge in
Pennsylvania, where he lived about
ginia. and there Eleanor Stuart mar
ried Edward Hall. Among their des-
cendants are numbered very many of
the best people of North Carolina.
After more tt an forty years spent
in it's daily service, it is no
wonder that his death spread great
gloom over the whole community in
which he lived. Old and young,
black and white, rich and poor, all
mourn his loss. Generous by nature
and by habit. and ever regardless of
self, true and tried, Lnf nching in the
performance of duty, ever mindful of
the rights Of others. bnt never mind
full of his own, his life was one long
offering to humanity, that now, when
his race is run, it is no mean conso'a-
ton to dwell upon. Living in
community that, until it felt the blight
of sublugation, enjoyed in n rare de-
gree every blessing that wealth and
Intelligence and high culture could
bestCw, his home was the seat of the
most bOunteOus and refined hospi-
tahty. Nowhere in all our land was
there higher or more charming type
of our Southern country life than that
to be found beneath his roof-a life
that, it is very much to be feared,
we shall never see the like of
again. Loved, revered and respected as
as a man and as citizen by all, by the
humble and the lowly, as well as by
their more fortunate brethren and pos
sessing their unbounded confidence as
a physician, he passed through life
without an enemy. When we look
back and recall the duty SO unselfshly
performed, the blameless life so we'll
spent, We do indeed grieve most of all
that we shall see his face no more; for
as reverently and tenderly we put away
our dead, the dead we loved SO we'll,
we remember that in his life and in his
death there was naught that might not
be told the world, and that would not
bring honor to his memory. Most
truly, indeed, has he left to his ckild-
rem the priceless heritage of au honor-
ed and honorable name. The fate of
cruel war might sweep from him the
fortune that he so loved with boun-
teous hand to bestow in kindness and
but not even death itself
can take from him his fair fame and
his good name. OF a high order of
and of great attainments
in the line of his profession he was
also fully abreast with the general pro-
gress of events in the intellectual
world. Kindly, genial, charitable in
Judgment and withal possessed of
humor as kindly and benignant as it
was keen and appreciative, he was in
deed man whom it were impossible |
not to love. The age in which we now
live and the surroundings that now
environ us are not adapted to the |
growth and development of a spirit go
noble, so generous, so uuselish. 1t
is not true that the good men do, dies |
with them. No grave is deep enough |
to bury the good influence of him
whom we mourn. May our Heavenly |
Father who in mercy tempers the
wind to the shorn lamb, look with pity |
upon the desoIate and stricken house |
hold now bowed down with its weight |
of woe.