Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-09-15

lent order, and this is the best cri-
terion of success in schools for small
children.
We have given the facts, and have
not space or time left for comments
upon them we will only say that
the public schools are doing more
for the city than the city has done
for them. One thing more, howev-
er, we must add, and that is that
the improved order and system OBJ
servable in these schools speaks
highly for the value of constant in
spection, and no functionary in this
city earns his reward by more
thorough or better directed work
than Mr.. Inspector Brooks.
Death of George w. Hampton.
George w. Hampton died on the
8th of September, 1877, of typhoid
fever, at the old Hampton family
residence, in this county, in the 61st
year of his age. His father was a
Virginian and moved to Tennessee
as early as 1900, and settled at what
is now known as Hampton's Spring,
in this county, on the line of the
Louisville, Nashville & Great South
ern Railroad. His mother was of a
fine old Scotch family by the name
of Stuart, which had the blood in
its veins of the royal line of the
Stuarts of Scotland. I have often
heard from those who had the means
of correct information that she was
an admirable woman and a worthy
scion of one of the most remarkable
families we ever had in this part of
the State. The writer of this notice
had the pleasure of a personal ac-
quaintance with two of her brothers,
William and holland Stuart, who
very early in life emigrated to Mis-
sissippi, where they made large for
tunes and grew to be men of wide
social influence. The blood of the
Hamptons and the Stuarts mingled
in the veins of George w. Hampton,
who has been for years the sole male
representative of two of the most
noted and remarkable families in
this county.
John Hampton, the father of him
whose death we deplOre, was an ell
egant young Virginia gentleman
who had just removed from Virginia
and located at HamptOn's Spring,
in this county, when he wOOed and
won the heart and hand of the ac-
cOmplished Miss Stuart. They lived
in this county and died, leaving but
two children, George w. Hampton
and his sister Catharine, who sur
wives him and is the beloved and
hOnored wife of Mr.. John T. John
son, of this county. George w.
Hampton left a wife and several
children to inherit his name and
fortune.
In early life he was educated at
the school of Mr., JnO. ID. Tyler, q
famous nursery at that day where
many got their growth and strength.
When he had finished his education
he studied law in the office of Maj.
G. a. Henry, in GAINESVILLE, but
-
titioner of his profession, being
fOnder of literature and agriculture
than the practice Of the law. He
liked it as a science and was thor
oughly imhued with the principles
of common law and equity, and
especially with the constitutional
law of his own country. In politics
he was Wing of the school of Clay
and Webster and had a wonderful
admiration of them, which lifted
him far above the practices and as
ISOLATION OF demagogues. Though
he had the qualifications of states
man he was never an Office-hunter
was too independent to court the
smiles of the people, and was never
a candidate for their votes. He did
accept the Office of Magistrate in his
Civil District and was for several
years before and at the time of his
death a Justice Of the Peace, and
regularly attended the session of the
County Court Of Montgomery oOun-
ty, of which he was q valuable mem.
Der. George w. Hampton was a
man Of fine talents and possessed
Il large fund of sound political in
formation, as any man would be apt
to possess who read constantly and
attentively Niles Register and the
old National Intelligencer and fol-
lowed the lead and studied the
speeches of Henry Clay, of Ken
lucky and Daniel Webster, of Mas
sachusetts.
Socially he was kind and obliging,
but on principle was as firm as a
rock and would find quarrel in a
straw when honor was at the stake. |
He had the lion-hearted courage of |
his chivalric namesake and relative,
the present Governor of South Caro-
lima. Though his bearing to the
world at large was decidedly forbid
ding, he was kind and charitable to
the poor and dependent. a large
crowd of his neighbors, white and
black, were present at his funeral
and burial at or near his family res
idence. All were deeply moved,
and one cOlored man spoke the SEN
of all his class when he said,
"There goes a kind-hearted, good
man whom the poor will miss and
we colored people have lost our ALL"
II.
The letter Carriers Petition.
The letter carriers of our CITY,