The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-06-06

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leading incidents in the life and death OF
our late venerable friend and brother,
DR. HENRY C. cATIEu,
OF Hickman Ky, who departed this, lie Of
yellow fever, AT Hickman, September II,
j 1873 Henry c. Catctt was native OF
the State OF Virginia. and born in Frederick
county in 1872, and ut the time Of his mar
tyrdom was about 81 years OF age. He1as
raised and educated, principally in Onion
county, Kentucky, by his parents, who had
moved TO this state during Ueays ea'iy
boyhood 1--we mistake not Henry c. Cat
lett ,7a- a pupil in the Office of the late eel
ebrated Or. ". I. Sutton, OF Georgetown,
the father Of the registration law, and other
most excellent legal sanitary provisions Of
this Commonwealth. Dr. Sutton was not
only very able but a very eminent man
in our profession; in fact one ofthe honored
fathers of Kentucky medicine and surgery
We are informed tha, Dr. Ca,lett attended
a course Of lectures during tile early DAYS
oi medical teaching IN the city of Louisville
lie located % practice phyzie in Hickman
in ISIS, and remained there in successful
Increasing patronage tiI the day of h.s.
death. Or. Cat'ctt was sell educated ma;
man Of much general information and +
sound, practical common sense. lie wasa
consistent and Jealous member OF the oa
Baptist church. lie kept aloof from "sl
entangling alliances" with worldly socictts
or orders, in general content with Gods own
good way and manner, he submitted cheer
fully 10 every fortune providentiallv meet
ed out TO him in this world. patiently wait
ing the decree OF Heaven that should remove
him from this to the better life. Oar IN.
formation is, that in his early manhood Dr.
Cat!ett became the husband o., Miss NIarv E
Buck, daughter Of Peter q. Back. Of Mont
goInery county, Tenn, Who died some yeas 1
ago. The Doctor was childlcss. An adoD-
ted daughter, now a married lady, whodu-
ing her gir.hood enjoyed his patcrual care
and affections, now mourus his death. Mrs T
Annie Helm, Hickman, was the excel lhnt /
lady who, as the fond loving foster daughter
whose little fingers were SO long enaneed .
in the heart strings Of the good old father
who has been taken away from her
Or. Catlett was attacked by yellow hyer
September, Il, 1878, and died as preuoasly
stated, regretted by al who knew hin well,
and bynone so much as his life long pat
rons and friends aud their Descendants who
had enjoyed the blessings Of his professional
for forty years.
DR.. Catlett did not live out the allotted
space OF human existence, "three score and
ten years" The manner OF bis sudden and
death was such as 70 remind
US that under favorable circumstmces, he
might have lived to four score yeas, fulI OF
usefulness to his fellow man, and beloved
Tor the good and faithful work with which
he beautifed pure and honorable lie. 1t
may be that for some wise purpose he was
sacrificed upon the altar Of duty as a ripe
sheai fit FOR the Masters garner, in all the
goodness and excellence OF a natured offer
ing 20 the glory Of God ana tlenobiJifv nj
mankind.
We will consider the honorable lie and
gallant death Of
DIR. RICHARD cATLETr rRArHEp.
a young man, gifted, noble, generous brave
and true, who fell a victim to the io.,ti,to
monster, "the black death" which rio,e5 IN
the destruction and mocLed the bite, te,r-
of a suffering people. What ha. ben said
OF his five fearless companions villa faced
the devastating cyclone OF afictioa v.bicb
swept over plagued stricken Hjckm, in
the fall OF 1873, as to personal neril aud
heroic devotion to the God-appoir,es do
mands OF that awful occasion, NAV -,lv
be repeated Of Dr. Dick Prather Who sc-;-
feed himself for the people he loved s,d
served during his brief medical manb,J
We trust the humble writer Of these hos
viii be pardoned for saying, and witlut
invidious distinction, that among those Z -
who offered up their lives for the aoodof
others during the Southern epidemic OF i
no one died more grandly or heroic.s,
noble than the gentle and good Dick ii
ther The melancholy bereavement OF /
good and devoted wife viii find solace al
sympathy in the hearts of all who Iov
her martyred husband. The little daur !
ter whom Its father had never seen vi
grow up to lovely womanhood with III
fond, though sad intelligence that She hal
father whose warm kiss had never beel
imprinted upon her innocent lips, and who's Z
listening ear had never caught the soull
moving inspiration OF her childish prattle
VIII she love his memory? Yes, ana ,,bv9,
Because he was once the pillar of strs,,otb |
in her mothers happy home; becapsa h.
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