The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-18
IN MENIORIAM.
N MEMORY OF MAJOR LUCIUS COFFEE
BRYAN,

N MEMORY OF MAJOR LUCIUS COFFEE
BRYAN,
Who died on the Isl of April, easter morning.,
O'Clock 1888, in the seth year of his age, being
born on the 18th of August 1892, in Thomas
vile, Ca, and the son of the late Joseph Bryan,
OF Newberne, N. G.
When the great die, it is asked who will take
their place! And soon, very soon, their place is
filled. But when the good. the useful, the Just
man dies. who can take his place around the
family reside within the circle of his influence
and the impressions Of a life made sweet with
pleasant remembranceS?
The death of Maj. LUCIUs COFFEE BRYAN has
left void not only around the domestic hearth
stone, but void among those who knew of his
many noble qualities of heart and head. He
now sleeps the sleep of the just, the good man,
the Christian
The life of Maj. BRYAN was a useful one, and
the world has been made the better for his
having lived In it. He was man of thought. a
man OF education, man of original thinking
lie studied law under the late James L. Seward,
ana was admitted to the bar His mind being
active, he established the Townsville Enter
Dr1Se in 1905 and was editor and proprietor of
that paper for twenty-one years. He conducted
the Thomasville Post in the interest of Gov.
CoIqmtt when candidate for Governor.
During the civil war of 1868 he raised com
pany Tor State service and was stationed at Sa-
vannah
After its disarmament he raised another COM
pasny 1.-THE Dixie boys, and was elected Captain
OF the same. In time he made Major of the
Flfty-seventh Georgia Regiment and served
with the regiment until the close of the war.
After the close of the war he began the re-
puolcatlon OF the ThomaSville ENTERPRISE. His
mind had decided turn for agriculture, and he
established the experimental farm known as
Baybrook farm, near Townsville.
he came to Savannah in 1881 and took charge
of the agricultural department of the Savannah
WEEKLY NEWS; at the same time he conducted
the Southern Farmers Monthly, which in time
emerged into the Southern CultiUGtor, and pub
llShed at Atlanta.
Mai. BRYAN filed for time the poSition of
assistant editor of the Savannah MORNING NEWS.
Since then he has done great deal of agricul-
tural writing for other papers and much writing
of q miscellaneous character 10 NAV not be
amiss to state that the pamphlet on the Re
sources Of Georgia, " published by the MORNING
NEWS, and which took the first premium at the
Louisville Cotton Exposition several years ago,
was from his pen That article did much to at
tract attention TO Georgia's numerous esources
and was the means of bringing in much capital
to the State.
Maj. BRYAN's merits were only equaled by his
mOdeSty of character. There was nothing of
the aggressive in his nature, yet he was a man
of firm convictions, sterling integrity of charac-
ter. He loved honor for honor's sake and truth
Tor truths sake. He had nothing narrow or
bigoted in his mental makeup.
he was a member of the st. Thomas Lodge
of MasOns of Townsville, was a Royal Arch
Mason. and for years Secretary of the lodge.
lie was member of the Christian church and
died in the belief of blessed immortality be-
yond the grave, and in his dying hours, know
ing and feeling that the end was near, he said
to those arouad him and to her whom he loved
the best on earth, Happiness ever more"
He leaves a widow and five children two
grown. To sum up the character of Maj,
LUCIUs c. BRYAN, he was domestic in his feel
ings, warm in his attachments, social and pleas
ant IN his intercourse, and unselfiSh in his
nature. good man has gone to his reward.
THE sweet remembrance of the just
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust"
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