The weekly clarion., 1880-02-25
IN MEMoRIAM..
The Late DR.. cowles Mead Walden.

The Late DR.. Cowles Mead Walden.
Though the health of DIR. Walden had
been bad for years and disease had
wasted his frame, he had resisted its
gradual lencroaehments with so much res
olution and borne his affiictions with so
much uneomplaining fortitude, that few
of his friends realized that he was for
a long time on the brink of the grave,
and when al last his physical forces sue
cumbed to the destroyer, they We're un-
prepared for the melancholy announce
ment that his brave and gentle spirit
had indeed passed through the shadow
of the dark valley and entered into life
and Immortality beyond He was born
in Charles City county. Virginia, on the
18th dav of April, 1912, and died at his
home in Carroll county, Mississippi on
the 9th of February, 1880. He had not
therefore, attained the years of life,
three-score and ten, allotted by the
Psalmist. He received his education in
the county where he was born, and in
his seventeenth year, seized with the
desire to pave his own way through the
world upon the actualities Of which he
had entered, he removed to North Car
olina and engaged in teaching school;
at the same time he devoted himself to
the study of the higher branches of ed
ucation. He afterwards studied medi-
cine and received his diploma from the
famous school in Philadelphia
which has given so many sue
cessful practitioners to suffering and
afflicted humanity He was laborious
physician, and in that profession, as in
everything he undertook, he succeeded,
for in his vocabulary, it may be said
without exaggeration, there was no such
word as fail
He was married in Lenoir county,
North Carolina, to Miss Elizabeth
Whitfield Herring, in October 1887,
The estilnable lady who plighted her
hand and heart TO him in the morning
march of life, and for forty-two eventful
years, shared with him Its joys and sor-
rows, was a watcher at his dying couch,
and ministered to his suferlngs and re-
ceived his last adieu on earth to meet
again in the bourne Of the hereafter
where there will be no more parting.
It was sad scene, the separation of
these two whose currents of thought
and feeling had run into the same
channel for so many long years until
they had become rs one.
In May, 1888, Dr. Walden removed
to Mississippi, and after few months
prospecting, he settled permanently in
Carroll county, where he died at
Prairie Mount, February 9th inst.
Here he engaged in practicing his
profession, and also in planting and
merchandising. He soon became man
of note in the community where he
lived, and though not ambitious of pub
lie station, was elected to serve his
county in the State Legislature for sew
eral terms, one Of which was after the
war. In every pursuit he developed
the higher qualities of intellect and Of
manhood. He was q born leader of
men, and left his impress upon every
thing he touched He was the highest
type of honor and chivalry. He was a
strict man of business; and left moth
ing about which doubt and miscon-
struction could arise, in his transac-
tions with his felIow-men. With \.
NJ. West, and others whose names
were not SO conspicous before the pub
lie, he was a pioneer Of that great en-
terprise the Mississippi CENTRAL RAIL
ROAD and gave his time and talents, and
invested his means, for its accomplish
ment. 1t stands as an endurin
monument to the wisdom and public
spirit Of its founders. He was a
representative man in all works of
benevolence, public charity and
progress. With characteristic tact, he
realized the changes that were wrought
by the war, adapted his plans to them,
and achieved success and fortune in
spite of every obstacle. The climax of
the monument which he has erected in
the hearts of his countrymen, and which
is more enduring than the marble shaft
that will mark the spot where sleep
his mortal remains, was his munifcent
contribution to the cause of education
At the time of his death seventy-four
young men were attending the State
University with means which he had
placed at their disposal for that purpose.
Who will take up the good work where
he left it when summoned to the reali-
ties of another world? If it is given
to the departed to look down from
the battlements above to the scenes of
their earthly tolls and anxieties, how
eagerly will he watch the fruits of his
good example. Who will carry for
ward the enterprise to which he gave
his heart and opened his purse
His life-book is closed, but the memory
of the generous friend, the patriotic
citizen, the public benefactor will not
soon fade away.
Scalage on Cotton.