The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-09-29
MEMORIAL SERVICES.
Tributes OF Respect to q Departed Brother,

this day had. These proceedings were
solemn n sad. His Honor could MOI
fail to have been impressed by the alb
sence OF one accustomed to be with us.
Death had been in our midst and re-
moved one of our brothers, whose loss
Will long cause n vacuum, not MY in
II little circle, but also in our County
State. The place of Rutherford
PRESLEY Todd could not he easily filled.
The speaker then feelingly alluded to
his chivalric patriotism and long con-
tinued sacrifice for the Lost Cause, his
devotion end efficient services TO the
cause of Home Rule and White ST orem-
ncy and his many years of faithiul pub.
lie service In varIou positions of trust,
ana his prominence at the Bar epd ii.
deity to bis clients. He said that tbs
testimony to the memory of our decees-
ell friend and Brother, which had been
unanimously adopted, and which it be.
came his duty to present 10 the Court,
were not words of panegy.;c, but of
simple truth, and concluded briefly by
reading tho following
Rutherford Presley Todd was bornin
the village of Laurens, February 4th,
1854. He graduated at NJ s. G.. College
December 1855, studied law with the late
Col James Fl. IfDy, and was admitted
to practice in 1855. He practiced Mt this
Bar till the beginning Of the way, when
he led a company Of the Sd Regiment S.
4. N~0lunteers. Here he was promoted
respectively to Major and Lieut-Colonel,
having been {our 'jOtCs Scr;o .>ly mouur,cd
al Fredericksburg. Chickamauga, and
in the Shenandoah Campaign. He con
tinued In the field, however, ill The
close OF the war, scorning all appoint
monts to easy places.
In 1865 he was honored with q seat in
tue Legislature. In 1871 he was APP
pointed Assistant Solicitor for Laurcns
County. In 1915, in ;e"o.niiion of his
services in behalf of "Homo Rule and
"White Supremacy" he was nominated
without opposition, and elected Senator
from Laurens, which office, ia conse-
quence OF declining health, he felt it his
duty to the County, rs sell as to him
self, TO resign. Another Office of ,Ieo:
importance to the County he held, AID
the duties of which he faithfully dis
charged, was that of Nice-President o.
the Greenwood, Laurens d Spar; anbury
Railroad Company, and TREASURER TO-.
the same, for Laurens County. In this
capacity he received and Gisbursed, for
the County and Railroad Company, over
Too'ooo, without ever charging OF re-
ceiving N compensation the co.
sui, with all these varied demands
upon his timo attention, and with deli
cate health, caused by his numerous SC
we're wounds, he maintained his posi-
ton ut this Bar, as one of the endipy
ana foremost practitioners of his p.o-
iessior. Wherefore, and consideration
lnrther OF his private virtues, and as a
citizen and II friend. as well as n mn. BIC
scrVan and an attorney, we the MEM
ner3 OF the I.aurenS Bar and the mem
brrs of the Bar Of the 9Th Circuit, IN
~"ttehdanre upon the Sep,embcr Tenn
or This Court, do adopt he following
Preamble and Resolutions, viz:
WHEREAS, Providence has secn fit 10
remove from our midst ono with whom
we have been long associated and ono
whose virtue we had les ncd 20 respect
and admire. he it Therefore
h,S"'r""t, lSt. That in the dca:h o:
rutherford Presslcv Todd this Bar has
h""n deprived of one OF its leading and
i,lo>t loii"rcu nemhcra, whose virtues
ucSrrNc II place in our affect ionl;e 70
hicmDrnn"e II will ever De cherished
us worthy OF our imitation.
"a. That the State and County have
Dccn deprived ola citizen who in patrto-
'iSni ana pubic spirit had no SUPERIOR
ana few equals.
30. ihat we sincerely SvmputhiHo
with the afflicted family and friends of
our deceased Brother, and we extend to
thcm the assurance of our sincerost svIt.-
pnthy.
4th. That in respect to our deceased
brother, a page In the Minutes of this
court DC Dedicated to his by
having inscribed thereon,
RUTHERFORD FRESHLY TODD,
Born February 4th, 1884;
Died August 18TH 1896.
5th. That n copy or these resolutions
bc forwarded by the Secretary of this
meeting to tine family of the deceased.
9th. That the Secretary he also re.
qucstod to furnish to the papers of O, 9.
town, copies OF thcse Resolutions. 81; u
n request that they publish the same.
JAMES HARROW.
JOHN w. FERGUSON,
b. w. BALL.
col. BALL,
~Sevondin9 Tho preamble and rcsolu-
ton said: May II please your Honor
AS having known our dcccYscd friend
.on3cr than probably any of my breth-
re III will como appropriately from mo
to Aecond the Resolutions. We wero
schoolboys together forty years ngo, and
1t was my privilege to know him through
his more than eventful litc. Its ances-
try was OF that sturdy race coming from
the North OF Ireland, whose descend
ants have illustrated here the highes,
typoof m?nhood, intellectual force and
patriotism. He received n liberal edu-
cation, graduating at the South ca DINA
College,, and In duo time being called to
the Bar, Immediately gave promise of
that success which rapidly crowned de.
Votion, ability, skill and grent zeal in
MS chosen profession. The higbesc
quality or an auvocate-devot;on to hJs