Arizona citizen., 1877-08-18
THE CITIZEN.
SATURDAY. AUGUST IS. 1877
The Late Alfred B. saaord.

As we anticipated, the death of thii lpre-eminently good and useful man placed the people of Cairo and sur
 rounding country in deep mourning
 Few men have lived so active a life anC carried to the tomb such universal
 esteem, and excited such manifestly
 deep and sincere regret at his death
 wherever known, as Alfred B. Stafford
 The Chamber of Commerce, Board ol Trade, Odd Fellows and the Encamp ment, met and passed resolutions show
 ing how deeply and sincerely they fell the loss. The Cairo Suns expressions are the same in tone as those of the societies and other papers, and we give them as follows:
 Hundreds of the people of Cairo, be fore they read these lines, will have heard, with hearts of sadness, of the sudden death of Mir A. B. Stafford, at Burlington, Vermont, last night, and all who ever knew him will join with us in saying that Cairo never before was called upon to sustain and mourn over the loss of man who had as many friends and who was so much beloved as A B. Stafford The infor- nation came in a dispatch this morn | ing fIom Mrs. Stafford to the effect that he died at Burlington, Vermont, last night at ten o'clock of apopleXy.
 It is we'll known to our readers that Mir Stafford and hls wife have been spending the last few weeks East, for the benefit especially of Mrs. Safford' s health. Only a day or two ago he reached Burlington, Vermont, his old home, his boyhood's home, and here his life-wOrk ended; here the heart that has always beat responsive to the call of the needy and suffering became still the hand that has eyer been open to the wants of his fellow men, became .pulseless and still; the ear that was always open to the cry of the widow and orphan, became deaf under the touch of the great destroyer, Death.
 All around us this morning, we heard men say, He was the best friend 1 ever had" He helped me in busi- ness, when 1 should have failed with out it." "I owe to him, more than any other man, my prosperity" He helped me when all others failed. '" !" He was as dear to me as a brother" '" And these expressions are not few. They are many. All Cairo today IS grlef-stricken. Sorrow clouds the faces of all who knew him, and the univer- sal remark is, None we know can fill his place in business and society circles so well as he did, and many years will elapse before we shall look upon his like agaIn."
 But he is gonel May the grass grow green and the flowers bloom above his sleeping dust. No truer heart ever beat; no better friend humanity ever had-nO more genial cOmpanIOn ever mingled iE society. None knew hIm but to love him-n0ne named him but to praise" To his relatives and es- pecially to his grief-stricken wife, we exten our heartfelt sympathy. He was our friend and as dear to us as a brother.
 To worthy and needy women, he was a continuously generous friend, and the following call for a meeting is but one ot the many expressions Tn this behalf:
 There will ne a special meeting of. the Woman's Club and Library AssO- citation in the Library rooms, on Mon- day afternoon, at three o'clock. A gen. eral attendance is desired. This meet ing is for the purpose of adopting res buttons relative to the late Alfred B. | Safford, Esq, which may be a slight tribute to his worth. He needs no words of ours; his own words speak | his praise. From the birth of our as- sOclation, till the present hour, his hand, strong and brave as any mans could be, his heart tender and kind as any wOman's, have been ours, to help, .o counsel, to comfort and protect. How many rough places he has Smoothed or us, how many obstacles he has re- moved from our path, no one can tell. And now in the room endeared to us ly how many memories of the noble leart now hushcd, we desire to meet md add to the many offerings showered ,n a grave so revered, ours; small and light as a sprig of acacia among yet breathing of tender and sorrow, from the feeble whom he loved to help, and yhO will miss him so sorely. By ,rder of the Vice President
 MRS. w. R. SMITH.
 X. G. GEORGE, Secretary.