Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-06-23
DEATHS.

Father, the late General Thomas T. Fauntle-
roy, the then Colonel OF 1st q. 8. Dragons
, He entered the Virginia Military Institute in
August, 1858, and graduated, with distinction,
in 1857. After preliminary course at the Uni
versity of Virginia. he graduated in the Medi-
cal department of the University OF Pennsyl-
vania; and. having passed rigid examination
by the Board of Army Surgeons. he was COM
f missioned an Assistant Surgeon in the U. s.
Army, and stationed at Fort Laramie then
one of the most remote Northwestern frontier
Posts. There, in April 1861. he resigned his
commission in the U. S. Army; and to avoid
| the surveillance and arrest to which resigned
Southern Officers were subjected he made his
way through several thousand miles of Indian
Territory and Texas, and arrived in Richmond
ABOUT June LIST, 1861. He was commissioned by
GOV. Letcher and accepted the invitation of
zen. JOS. 4. Johnston to take the place of Chief
OF his medical staff; as such and as an active
l a'de &c, he served from Manassas 10 Seven
Pines, from which battle field he carried his
wounded commander. He was then ordered to
establish and organize Hospitals at Danville
which he did. and was next ordered to Staun-
ton where he remained till the end of the war;
After The war. he practiced the profession of his
cholce, taking at once that front rank as a
physician and surgeon for which his talents
him. His name had become household word
not only in this city, but for a wide circle
around. upon the death of DR.. Baldwin, he
was elected to fill his place as superintendent
Of the Western Lunatic Asylum.
| HIS administration won new laurels, and
when, at the behest of party, he left that post,
| The sorrow of the inmates was only eoualled
oy The joy of his old patients, into whose
| homes he at once entered, as out of their
hearts he had never gone when the change of
parties brought him again to The fore. The
| fitness of things pointed him out as the natu.
| raj head of the institution he had adorned
| His second administration was as brilliant
as MS first, and when, last spring, he turned
MS BACK upon the Asylum for the second
| time, he left it in such condition as it had
never been before. But he left it changed
man. The manner of his taking Off had
broken the bouyand spirit and paled the hue
of health. he felt that his future was gone,
iyet no word of replning or querulous COM
plant escaped his manly lips. With christian
resignation. he bowed his head, and quietly
| wrapping the drapery OF a useful and honored
lie ana bright christian hope about him. he
lay down to die in his 50th year-little more
than half the space allotted by the Psalmist
to strong man; yet how much had he crowd
| ed into that half century
The loved husband, the adored and honored
father; the fast friend, who had bovnd many
to himself with hooks of steel; tbs beloved
| physician who had carried peace and healing
| with equal step. into the cottage of the poor
and the palace of the rich-au these and more
the good, the gentle. the loving christian who
left no enemy unforgiven, he has gone to that
| rest that remaineth for the peopls of God, and
| his works do follow him.
| :. During Sunday tho rouidonoo ,r,,
with visitors who came 10 take last look at
the features of one so endeared to the entire
| community.
Funeral services were conducted Monday
morning by the Rev. W. O. Hullihen, Rector
OF trinity Episcopal Church, in the presence Of
vast assemblage after which the BODY was
conveyed to the Valley Depot and to Winches-
Ter Ior 1nterment-the Staunton Lodge OF
Masons and large procession forming an
escort to the depot. The pall-bearers were
from the Masons. j. A. Cochran, W. L. Bum
gardner, DR.. Carter Berkeley, T. D. Ransom. F.
T. Stribiing. with W. P. Tams, ]. a. Waddell.
Geo. NJ Harrison. and Hons. w. A. Hudson
and j, W. Stout. E. NJ. Stewart, and O. R. Funs-
ten. Accompanying were E. M. Cushing, wor-
shipful master of Staunton Lodge, ]. M. Lick
liter, $. w; W. B. McChesney. ]. W; G. w,
LYMAN, B. B. Eskridge. e. j. Jones, A. M.
Lodge. Drs. E. G. Fisher. of the W. L. Asylum,
Capt. 7. S. Doyle, DR.. B. NJ. Atkinson, H. M.
McIlhany and W. l.. Olivier, H. St. George
Tucker and M. P. Funkhouser
l. The largest funeral concourse we have ever
seen attended the departure for Winchester OF
the remains OF the man they SO loved and re-
spected, and among that Vast throng of tender
women and oronzed and bearded men, there
were few dry eyes when the hymns he loved
SO well were sung around his coffin buried in
| in flowers. In the escort of the remains to
the depot every physician in the city was
present.
AT Winchester Hiram Lodge of Masons, G.
w. Bushnell, worshipful master and Rev Mr.
HUBBARD, Rector of the Episcopal Church, join
ed The funeral cortege, Mr.. Hubbard conduct
ing the religious services.
Judge Fauntleroy reached the city Sunday
night from Wytheville, and accompanied the
members OF his brothers family to Winchester.
He returned Wednesday to Wytheville where
the Supreme Court is in session.
Following are the tributes of respect to The
deceased
STAUNToN LIFE ASSOCIATION
at meeting of the Directors of the.Staur
ton Life Association, held at their ONCE in |
the city of stanton, on Monday lima 1,st |
1856, the death of DR.. A. Nj. Fauntleroy. Medi,
y,
announced as having taken place on the |
evening of the 18th inst, whereupon the fol-
lowing minute was ordered to he entered nnor
the records of the Board
Th1s Board has heard, with great regret nd |
pain. Inc announcement of the death of DR. |
A: M. Fauntleroy, who since the Organization
of this company, has been its Chief Medical
officer, and whose services, in conseouence of
ms devotion TO the best interests of the COM
pany, and the intelligent discharge of his |
duties, have been weilnigh inyaIuable DR. |
Fauntleroy had long been an eminent m en- |
Der of the Medical Profession, his reputation |
as a physician and surgeon, being firmly as |
tablished and widely extended. TO great
learning IN ms profession, and remarkable |
skill in diagnosis, and in the treatment of |
disease, there were added in him all those per-
| sonal characteristics that combined to make
him the attractive gentleman, the eyer.Wel- |
come private practitioner and tn q tender and
sympathetic friend and adviser in the sick
| room, or In the home where death and distress |
To others hereafter must be entrusted the |
task of preparing suitable memorial OF his |
Board now only has the time and opnortnnitv |
to give expression to their sense of the loss
which this company has sustained in the |
death OF this faithful and distinguished off, |
| Ger. and the individual members to give utter |
ance to their sense of the personal bereave- |
ment that they have experienced in the loss of |
their valued friend and associate
1t is therefore unanimously Resolved
LIST. That this Board have heard with |
feelings of the profoundest sorrow of the
death OF Dr. A. nj. Fauntleroy. and feel that it |
is one of the greotest misfortunes that could
nave come 10 GnelF INSTITUTION.
End. That we tender to the widow and chill
dren of our late distinguished officer and
friend, our most profound sympathy, com
mending them tenderly and earnestly to the |
mercy aud care OF the great Physician above
who looks with pity upon the widow and
fatherless.
3rd. That we will attend the funeral of our |
deceased friend in q body and wear the usual
badge Of mourning for thirty days
4th. That a committee of this board con- |
sisting Of Messrs. Funkhouser, Hudson, Tams |
and Mcllhany be appointed to accompany the |
remains OF DIR. FauntieIoy to the City of Win
ment.
| 5th. That these proceedings be published in
| the papers OF this city, and that q certified
copy OF same be forwarded to the widow and
| family of the deceased.
| JOHN ECHoLs. Pres.
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
At called meeting of the members of The
Medical Profession of the City of Staunton,
held Goth June, 1885, touching the death of DR.,
A. Nj. Fauntleroy. DR.. B. M. Atkinson was
called to the chair, and DR.. John W. Harris
appointed secretary.
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