Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1880-04-27
DEATH OF JUDGE TRIGG.

Judge .Connally F. Trigg IL no more
After an oventful life Of three score
years and ten, ending in fifteen years of
great usefulness IN an exalted station, he
passed away from earth last Sunday af-
ternoon at G o'clock, at the residence Of
Miss Sally Wilbar, in Bristol Judge
Trigg, of Abingdon, where he was born
March Sth 1910. The first f0 years Of
his life were spent In that town, where
he engaged in mercantile business and
the practice Of law. In early manhood
ho married Mary Trigg Campbell, sister
Of Judge Jno. A. Campbell, by whom
he had two daughters, who are living
now in Knoxville. lie was also n half
brother of Mrs. Jno, A. Campbell
Some ten years since he Married Mrs.
Scrlphina McGavock adaughter FLAMES
Deery. deceased, of Sullivan county,
who survives him and whose home Is at
Avoca Sulphur Springs, near Bristol
In religion Judge Trlgg was Sweden
borgim. In the days Of Whiggery he
was Jealous Wing, and IN 1883 was the
mow-nothing aomlnee for Congress,
making an active and able canvass, and
being defeated by Gov. McMullin. In
1855 he removed TO Knoxville for the
practice Of law, and by his ardent sup
port OF the Union cause In 1861, was
thrown into active sympathy with An
drew Johnson, the leader Of the Union
cause In II. Tennessee, so that when that
gentleman became President In 1865, he
appointed him Judge Of the y. s. Dis
trict Court for Tennessee. So magnani-
nous, generous and wise was his course
IN assuaging the bitterness that resulted
from the late civil war, that he
quickly regained the esteem and friend
ships which his Union course had
estrongcd. And this he did without the
loss Of his more recent friends. with n
soft hand and iron step he moved among
the imprisoned spirits which the war
had turned loose like Infatuated devils IN
r. Tenn, and whenever he went lie
stillcd them, Alterward when consc-
qucntlal prejudice might have done H. jus
tico TO such Union men az Judge Butler,
he wac equally ready md potent ut sub
dining II until reOson could be enlhroncd,
Judge Trigg WIS the peace maker Of
East Tenn, and II will he many u league
down the mdlng generations Of This age
before his name will grow cold In the
hearts Of these people. lie was ardent
IN hie attachments, generous In his Inn
pulses and firm In HE purposes Green
I've his memory IN East Tennessee, and
may the peaceful age which We hope IA
In store FOR South West Va, witness hls
name carved In enduring stone, IN testl-
mony that she honors the dust Of u son
who, In a arrange land amid strange as-
soolatlone displayed those virtues with
which the name Of hla native State stands
linked In history, HE position was one
n great labor but he pressed patiently
and pcrsietontly through Il. At last the
silver cord was parted Paralysis elaine
cd he Victim and two months ago while
In Knoxville he left the labors Of tho
bonch for the last scene of life, the 6nsl
Illness TO which all flesh yields, A fort
night ago he was brought TO Bristol
whore all that faithful friends could do
vas done. II would be unjust 10 close
thie picture Of the sturdy onk wlihou,
trailing about lie maicsilc FORM the ten.
der vine that adorned Ia figure mud rom
dcrcd fragrant many breeze that swept
,Nont IT, Mrs. 'rrlgg was Rebel, Judge
Ttirg WA Culon. Yet never were more
seeming anlogonlshs more fortunately
blended, lfjn'gc 'rrlgg needed TO bc
ewnlrd "io Niuue'e side" the spirit
charged Win that duty could No, hay,