The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-03-03
BAR Nj EE TING.
Resolutions on The Death Of Colonel
H. Warren stone.


Pursuant TO call personally made, the
Dallas bar association met at the court house
in the city of Dallas atl0 o'clock a. m. yester-
day to take such action &c might be deemed fit
and appropriate in commemoration Of the
worthy honored and lately deceased member
of the Dallas bar. Colonel b. Warren Stone
Colonel w, w. Leake, president cf the
association, called the meeting to order and
stated he object Of the nesting G. Il.
Plowman was requested to act as secretary.
On motion the chair was requested to
appoint committee of FIVE members Of the
Dallas bar TO draft suitable resolutions COM
memorative Of the chsIacter and virtues of
our deceased brother, B. w. Stone.
The chair Therefore appointed IS such
committee Colonel j. @. Mccoy, Judge Nat
NJ. Bruford, Judge John q. Good, Judge
z. e. Ooombes and Colonel e. 9. Mcclure.
On motion the meeting adjourned till 2
o'clock, D. M, to give the committee on
resolutions time to make a report.
The association met al 2 p. m, pursuant
to adjournment, and Colonel j. @. Mccoy as
chairman and in behalf of the committee on
resolutions, read and submitted the follow
ing resolutions:
Whereas, We have heard with deep
sorrow of the death Of our brother, b.
Warren Stone, which took place at his
late residence in Dallas, Texas, on Saturday,
the 18th Of February, 1881, at 1890 p. m,
and feeling that it is proper and right that
We his associates, members of the Dallas
bar, should join his many friends in on ex-s
preston of sorrow for his DEATH and respect
for his memoryj therefore,
Resolved, That in the death of Col. j.
Warren stone, stricken down as he was, SO
suddenly and in the apparent enjoyment OF
good health and robust manhood, We Gre
more forcibly than ever before, 1t possible,
reminded of the uncertainty of human life,
and the positive certainty of death, %s.and CANS
to our minds the admonitions in the holy
writings that this world is not our hcme, that
we are rapidly Fastening TO that bourn from
whence no traveller returns, and that 20
know not the day nor the hour in which we
NAV be called from time 10 eternity.
Resolved, That in the death of Col. Stone
the bsr has lost an able, courteous and elo-
queut advocate; the state an upright, useful
citizen and patriot; society one of lis bright
est ornaments; his bereaved family a loving
husband and a kind and indulgent parent,
and humanity champion and true friend.
| Resolved, That we extend TO the surviving
wife and children of our deceased brother
our heartfelt coincidence and sympathy in
THE, their hour OK affection, and
| Resolved, That the secretary of this bar
association present to the family of the de.
ceased copy Of these resolutions.
Resolved, Ihata copy Of these resolutions
be presedted to the federal court, district
and county courts, at Dallas, on future day,
and Request that the same be spread upon
the records of sid courts as an enduring
memorial of tho high esteem in which
Colonel Stone was and is held by both bench
and bar at Dnllis.
Resolved, That copy OF these resolutions
be furnished the Dallas HERALD and Dali
Times, with the request that the same 0
published.