Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-12-07
OBITUARY.
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1t is my melancholy duty to announce ths
death Of Edmund Berry Lurton, worthy
member of the GAINESVILLE bar. he was
born on the LIST of Nov, IS4s, in Campbell
county, KY, and died at his home in Clarks
vile on the 3Oth of Nov, 1878. He was 9
graduate of the Law Department of Cumber.
! land University, Lebanon, Tenn, and came
to the bar In GAINESVILLE in 1860 when lac
/ was just q years old, and at once took q
respectable position az the bar, and very
soon gained the confidence of the people
and excited high expectations of future
success and usefulness in the mind of the
Bench and bar. I CHANGED to be in the
court room when he made debut at the
bar, and was favorably i'm pressed with the
self possession and dignity he displayed in
the presentation of his case to the court and
jury. His was the well balanced confidence
and self possession which knowledge
always inspires. He made no apology for
being a young man, nor did he beg
/ the sympathy of the court and jury
on that account, but proceeded at
once to fortify every position he took by the
law books, with which he was familiar, and
to demand verdict from the jury based
upon the law and the testimony. He stated
batable point with great force and earnest
ness, and relied upon the law and the
testimony for a favorable charge from the
court and verdict from the jury.
/ well remember a conversation had
with Col. Bailey and some other older
members of the bar in which predicted he
would rise to eminence in his profession, a
sentiment which met their entire concur
lint he of n
and the total prost1ation of his physical en-
ergies prevented the fuIfllment of the
prophecy. But for these unconquerable
bars to eminent success he would have
been at the early age of 30 in the front rank
of his profession in Tennessee. Nor was
he alone good lawyer, he was fine and
interesting speaker, close and able de-
batter, and would, had he been able to with
stand the wear and tear of midnight pre-
paration on the constitution, have rescued
forensic eloquence from the decadence into
which, fear, it has fallen.
He has left a wife to whom he was de-
votedly attached, and two lovely children,
a boy and girl, to mourn over his untime-
ly death. He has left them the rich legacy
ola Christian character, and an untarnished
name. l knew him well and loved him
dlAAOSl Will Tie bSLOeTn6SS u q AdllicEs nc
was the soul of honor, and faithful even unto
death to every manly sentiment and Chris
tIan virtue, and had all his life an unbroken
confidence in the merits and promises of
the Savior of mankind. 1t is melancholy
thing to see one so gifted have life so brief.
The day we buried him in Greenwood
Cemetery we stood around his hew made
grave with heavy hearts, under an in
clement sky, but all felt though he left US
on bleak day, in rain and stIrm, that
bright sunshine, balmy air and angels
chos-s greeted him when he passed over the
beautiful river which separates this cold
world from the land of the blessed. He has
passed the river safely, and has gained a
refuge from the storm, and death is swallow
ed up in victory. Verify, verify indeed
what has been our loss is his eternal gain.
Edmond Berry Lurton, the b II VINO knew
you best, and all who knew you well, Will
cherish your name and your virtues, and
in their names, I bid you, though the |
tongue falters on the word, farewell!
No pearl ever lay
Under Oman's green water,
More pure in its shell
r. frit int