Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-15
FUNERAL RITES.
Meeting of the GAINESVILLE Bar
This Morning.
The Exercises At the Methodist
Church Over the Remains.
The March to Greenwood Where the
Body was Consigned to the Tomb
In the Presence of Friends.


The March to Greenwood Where the
Body was Consigned to the Tomb
In the Presence of Friends.
There is deep gloom manifested on
every hand to-day, caused by the
death of Judge Smith. No man in
GAINESVILLE stood higher as citizen
than the one who was buried in
Greenwood cemetery this morning.
No man was more universally loved.
BAR MEETING.
At the appointed hour, $3.50 this
morning, the members of the Clarks-
vile bar began filing into the Chan
Gerry court room to pay fitting
tribute to the memory of one of their
number.
Ats o'clock Gen. Quarles, chair
man of the meeting, called it to or
der and read the report OF the COM
mittee on resolutions. 1t was as fol-
lows: ..,y a-
Charles Gholson Smith died at his
residence in this city at $3.50 o'clock
a. M, the 14th of April, 1890. He
was in his fifty-seventh year, and
was born in Haywood county, Tenn.
on the 18th of January, 1884.
He came to GAINESVILLE a mere boy,
in his eighteenth (18) year and here
he has lived and made that life
struggle many Of us have witnessed
and all of us have admired. We
believe there will not be dissenting
voice when we claim for his career
no outside aids-a triumphant vic
tory.
In the eighteenth year of his life
he entered the Office of his relative,
Gen. Hornberger, and then began the
study of the law.
Having no fortune whereby he
was enabled to devote the whole of
his time to his studies, it became
necessary for him to take hold OF
such positions as would enable him
to earn the means of continuing his
studies.
He had lived here but short time
when his earnest energy of manner
sOftened by a never-c easing flow OF
genuine humor-won for him the at
tentiOn and the good will Of our best
people. From that day to the hour
of his death there was not voice OF
a hand in our whole community that
was not raised to elevate and
sustain him in every effort
of his life. From the humble posi-.
ton of Recorder of our city he was
placed upon one of the highest judi
cial positions in the State, voluntari-
ly resigning this position, which he
had held long enough to so impress
himself upon the popular heart as tC
cause his name to be freely mentioned
as one fitted to hold the highest posi-
ton the State could bestow. He
came back to the bar, and, first as the
partner of Senator Bailey, and Sec
ondly as the partner of Judge Lur-
ton, and finally Of A. r. Gholson
practiced law with great success till
the cold hand of the Destroyer
touched his stalwart and manly
form, and with the quiet, uncom.
planning courage of IA Christian gen.
tleman he yielded up his body to the
foe and his spirit to the God he had
learned to love and implicitly tC
trust.
Judge G. G. Smith was the archi.
tect OF his own fortune. Nature had
given him all those qualities by
which men make their own career
but no man ever used them more
honestly or more unselfishly, and
though he passed in the race of life
many of those upon whom fortune
had lavished her gifts, no one enVied
his success or felt jealousy at his pro
motion. There was so much OF the
genial good humor in all he said and
did that, though he sometimes WELD
ed that most powerful, and so often
unpopular weapon-ridicule-it was
always so tempered with the over
flowing good humor of his big, warm
heart, that it left no sting behind,
and the object of it would join in the
laugh. Yet, in all his never-fa failing
flow of goOd-humOr he never forgot
the manly dignity of the courteous
gentleman.
Although not a student in the
sense of a reader of books, he had a
memory so ready and so retentive
that his information was fully equal,
and often superior to that of the
closest and most industrious student,
and the quickness with which he
could draw upon and apply his in
formation, excited both the surprise
and admiration of those of us who
knew him so well. Though he was
ever ready with the witticism and
the anecdote he was never clownish
or undignified, but was mphatically
an earnest and profoundly religious
man.
While he was ever ready to yield
in matters of mere taste, form, or
indeed we may say policy, when it
got to the point, or assembled to the
plan of principle, he was as stern and
as unflinching as the rock. Influ-
ences from without or within could
not swerve or change him, and as
God gave him to see and believe, he
would live or die.
He as man of the purest mind,
and his life was as pure as his
thoughts. AS husband, father or
friend, he was above reproach. He
was eminently kind and charitable
man, and loved fair play in all
things-in a word his character was
so poised, fashioned and formed,
and with his own strong right arm
he so fought the fight that he had
many friends and not single enemy,
and as his body passes along the way
to its grave, there will not be hand
of all those who knew him so well