The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-05-06
Death Of Lyttleton Waddell.

burial, he having di d in that place or
Friday night. They were met by friend:
of the deceased and conveyed to the Isl
Presbyterian Church, whence. on Sunday
morning at 81 O'Clock, they were taken tf
Thornrose Cemetery and laid beside his
two dead children to await the final SUN
mons at the great judgment day The
services at the church in Charlottesville. on
Saturday, were conducted by the Rev. Dr.
Petrie. pastor of the church OF which MI.
Waddell had been prominent and useful
member. and in the First Presbyterian
Church. of Stanton, on Sunday, by Dr.
Petrie and Rev. DR.. Mcfarland, the pas
tor of the Church A large number of the
relatives, friends and former acqualnt-
ances of Mr.. Waddell, attended to pay the
last tribute of respect to their departed
friend and former associate. The pail
bearers we're c. D. Fishburn, Judge J.
M. White, Pr of. c. S. Venable, Mason Cor
don and Geo. Perkins, of Charlottesville,
and I. C. Morton, j. M. Llckllter, h.
Mauzy. and S. M. Yost. of Stanton.
Lyttleton Waddell was born in Staunton
Jan. "a, 1929. and died in Charlottesville,
April 80, 1886. His education was principal
ly obtained at the Augusta Academy, OF
which his father, Lyttleton Waddell, ST.,
was principal. IL his early youth he man.
| Tested natural fondness for newspaper
| life, much OF his time being spent about
| the printing offices, where he acquired
some practical knowledge of the business
When about 49, years of age. in connection
with several young men OF his own age, he
conceived the idea of publishing a little
paper, and his plan resulted in issuing the
Lilly of the Valley" Its life was very
| brief, however, as its sharp paragraphs
and wtticisms were in advance OF public
sentiment and training. What now would
be considered and tolerated as within the
limits of the liberty of the press" was
| then regarded as an offensive invasion OF
the sacred precincts of conventional society
and the CHARMED circle of exclusive
social privacy. The bare suggestion
that the publication could be objected
| to by even the excessively fastidiouS,
was enough for Mr.. Waddell. His keen
sense of the proprieties of life the ele-
waited tone of his moral constitution. and
the delicate fibre OF his ethical nature
forbid that he should do anything that did
not measure up to an ideal standard of
social requirement. Consequently, he
promptly abandoned his youthful en-
terprise, and sign aliged the demise of his
bantling by laying upon its tomb a pa
thetic poetical tribute to the transient
beauty and fragrance of the ''lly' and the
sweetness of the influence of all things
that die young.
Mr.. Waddell possessed a natural aptness
for editorial work, and it was as much to
indulge that as anything else that his
father. in connection with Jos. A. Wad-
dell, Esq, purchased the St0aaatoF Specta-
tor, in 1S4S or 40. He became one of its
active editors, and continued in that re-
lation for a number of years. His style of
writing was SHARP, crisp, pointed and clear,
and always seasoned by a high sense of
duty to community and a proper compre-
hension of the obligation and mission of the
press. From the sanctum he went into
mercantile business, locating at Church
vile, in this county. But this was not a
congenial pursuit, and after few years Of
active engagement in this line, he re-
sumed his connection with the press, by
purchasing an interest in the Charlottes-
vile Chronicle. which he conducted with
signal ability as its editor, and success in
a business point Of view. Fondness for |
the profession and the fascination it has |
for those who manifest an inclination for |
such duties pressed hard upon naturally |
nervous constit ution. and caused him to
seek relaxation from the exactions of the
editorial chair by again engaging in the (
mercantile pursuit. This was his bust |
ness relation to the community of Char |
lottesyiIe, when disease and death over
took him.
The writer of these lines had known /
Mr. Waddell for over quarter of Il Cen |
fury, and never knew a more honest and |
honorable gentleman. Even iu the exu~
berance and thoughtless impulses OF youth |
he was ever keenly alive to sense of /
moral duty, and as he advanced to the re
sponsibilities of manhood he recognized |
that his influence for good could not be |
fully exerted outside of the pale of the |
church. He early connected himself with |
the church of his fathers and lived out in /
his daily intercourse with men the princi. /
pies and virtues which he thus professed. |
transformations in his tastes, rather re- |
firing in disposition and averse3 to the |
strifes and turmoils of active public life,
he did not gill that place in the public eye |
which his brilliant talents and varied ac- |
quirements would have commanded in a
more aggressive nature. He preferred |
the quiet Of his home, graced as it was |
by the virtues and gentle affections of |
loving and lovely wife and dutiful and de- |
voted children. His example, in all the |
relations of life, was for good, and in a !
consciousness of acting from a sense of
duty in all things. he found more pleasure
than would have come to him in the sharp
encounters and harsh attritions of the
more boisterous circles of action and ambi
ton.
Mr.. Waddell was happily married in
1850 tY Miss Mamie E. Montgomery,
neice of James Nelson, decd. of this coun-
ty, President Of the Valley Bank. and cousin
of w. j. Nelson, ESQ.,, of this place, who is
left t., mourn the absence of a tender hus-
band. There were born to them eight chill
dren, six Of whom survive. One of his sons,
who has just passed the age of manhood,
fingers at the point Of death at his home
in Charlottesville. It was soicitude and
anxiety for him that, it was thought, first
FRUSTRATED Mr.. Waddell, the exhausted
condition of his system inviting pneumo-
mia, and complicated with heart trouble,
fastened his death. And thus has passed
away, in the meridian of life, friend and
companion of early days who had rounded
his years of quiet usefulness with the
rich fruitions of the Christian S faith,
HIGH HONOR 20 A VIRGINIAN.-At
the recent session of the American Sur
gical Association, held in Washington, DR..
Hunter Mcclure, of Richmond, the dis
tinguished physician and surgeon, whose
wife ia tho dauohtar Of Hon TT TT