The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-11
IN MEMORIAM.

The subject of this obituary sketch,
Doctor william Tazwell Upshaw, son
of Lewis G.. and Alice Thornton Up
shaw, was born March Goth, 1929, near
Elkton Giles county, Tennessee, and died
of Pneumonia January 3lst 1873 at his
residence near Lagrange, Lee county,
Arkansas, aged 48 years, 10 months and
2 days.
From his parents who were wealthy,
he received liberal literary and medi-
cal education. He graduated at the cell
ebrated Jefferson Medical College of
Philadelphia in 1854 and was the pHpil
and pr0tege of the distinguished Doctor
Meter of that city.
After graduating at Philadelphia he
practiced medicine for some years in
North Alabama moved to Memphis in
1850 and served as surgeon in the Con-
federate Hospital of that city till its oc-
cupation by the Federal forces. He af-
forwards joined the 18th Alabama cav
airy in which he Served till discharged
on account of i'll health. He then at
tended a cousse in the medical and sur
gical school in New Orleans. In 1862,
May 20, he was married to Miss Josphine
lie. Barn, daughter of Doctor Rayburn
of New Orleans.
After the war he located on Horn Lake,
in Mississippi. In 1870 he removed to
Lee county, Arkansas, where he contin-
ued to reside and practice his profession
till his death.
The writer of this sketch was well ac-
quainted with Dotcor Upshaw for sew
eral years and knew him as Intimately
as one medical man can know another,
and he feels warranted in saying, that a
purer, a better or a more useful man
never graced the profession of Arkansas.
In thought and sentiment he was eleva-
ted and pure, in manner almost ladylike
in his gentleness and refinement, in de-
vOtion TO his profession, faithful and self
denying, in tenderness and sympathy
for the sick he had scarcely en- equal,
and in his intercourse with other physi-
clans always courteous, unselfsh and
free from professional jealousy. Indeed
in whatever relation OF life we view this
good and noble hearted physician, we
find everything to admire and nothing
to condemn. Well and truly might have
been said of him;
"At his approach complaint grew mild,
And when his hand unoarred tho shutter,
The clammy lips of fever smiled
The welcome, which, they could not ut
ter"
He fell, martyr, at the post of duty
for the night was never too dark or cold,
il never rained too hard or shone too hot
for him to mount his horse and obey the
call OF the sick and suffering, and often
too, without hope ofearthly reward. II
it be true that 'life is the beginning OF
death and death the developement OF a
higher life," then has he entered upon
the enjoyment of that "higher life," for
his last earthly look, at the moment of
dissolution, was one of admiration and
wonder, as If gazing in the "far away"
upon that blessed vision of immortality
opened up to man only through death
and the grave. But his mission here
has ended. No more shall we see his
kind face and hear his sympathetic voice
around the couch Of the sick and dying
among US.
Pale sleeper of the silent tomb, how
lone and sad thy dwelling placel The
morning comes and shadowy eve, but
still thou slumberest on. The birds may
sing their matin songs, and wake their
echoes IN the groves, but thou wilt hear
and heed them not. Bus there Is a voice
that can wake the slumbers OF the dead
an arm that can burst the cerements
OF the grave. Then light be the sod up
on the tomb TO which we have consigned
thee. "RequfeSedt IN pace"
Done by order Lee county Medical As
sociation. +. T OWEN, Chairman.
At a meeting Of the citizens OF Phil
lips and Lee counties held Ia LAGRANGE,
Lee county, Arkansas, Saturday, FehTu-
airy 2nd, 1875, the Rev. Thos. A. Craig,
was called 10 the chair, and Mr.. II. I.
Duncan appointed Secretary, and the
following resolutions were unanimous
ly adopted.
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased a Divine Prov
idence TO remove nom our midst Doctor
w. a. Upshaw, therefore be IL resolved,
lst. That in his death our whole COM
mnnity has lost q I30st wotby and esti-
ucable citizen, a pure and good man In
~ relation of life, and kind, devot-
ed AID useful physician, whose loss we
sincerely and deeply regret,
2nd. RESOLVED, That We tender 10 his
bereaved and sorrOwing widow our sin
cere and heartfelt sympathy In her be-
reayement.