The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-07-08

The following memorials, in re-
gard to the death Of three members
of the Court, presented by Chair
man Carruthers, were adopted and
ordered spread upon the minutes:
To the Quarterly Court in session assem-
bled, July Term, 1892:
1t becomes the painful duty of your
Chairman to announce that since our last
quarterly session, death has called from
our midst three of our most worthy men,
bers, G. III. Anderson, w. j. Blair and
George M. Nolen; and it is deemed prop
err that some suitable notice of their de-
mise and some memorial of their life and
public services should be made by our
body sitting to-day in regular quarterly
session.
We are reminded by these sad dispen-
satIons of Providence of our own mortal
ity. Truly, our life is but span. We
pass away as the leaves of the forest, and
the places which know us now will soon
know us no more forever. We hasten on
to that home from whence no traveller
returns, and soon we also shall join. the
silent majority who have gone before.
Chamberlain I'll. Anderson was born in
Virginia in 1920. In early manhood he
came to Tennessee and settled on a farm
about nine miles south of Bolivar, on
Spring Creek, where he engaged in plant
ing and milling until the close of the late
war, when he moved to Bolivar. For
nearly half century he was In public
life in some capacity, and for more than
a decade he was chairman OF this court.
How well he performed his duties we all
know. His heart was tender and relent-
ing. A man of immense brain power, OF
strong will, of quick temper, it was but
natural he should be impatient and COM
bative. His rigid honesty, his careful
guardianship of the County's pecuniary
interest, and his adaptability 10 the place
designated him as the man for Chairman
of the Court; and from time to time he
was elected, sometimes without oppOsi-
ton, at other times In the face of fierce
odds against him and over competitors
whose abilities we'll fitted them for the
place, and whose popularity seemed to
insure success.
During the incum bency of our deceas-
ed brother as Chairman. our finance was
most economically managed. While in
public station, dispe nsing law and justice
and sitting in judgment upon the rights
of others, he would in commendable
course not exceed the limits of law, and
his stamp of disapproval was placed up
on every act or measure which would
take without full legal authority one
penny from the public treasury. Such
was his construction of law and duty.
An implacable foe of everything that ga
vored of iobbery, or encouraged raids
upon the public treasury, ne saved the
County thousands, and taught us as his
successors lessons of prudence and econ
omy, which must inure to our own eff
cheney as officers and to the veal of our
country.
Our beloved associate, w. j. Blair, was
born in South Carolina, in 1886, and had
resided in the County many years. He
was for four years follower of the lost
cause, and when the surrender came he
returned to his home to find all he had
swept away by the war, and the sad al
tentative was presented of beginning TO
build up again that which had been so
ruthlessly destroyed by hostile foe. Yet
undaunted, he undertook the task, and
by teaching and daily labor in the field
he soon rehabitated his home, and sur
rounded himself with the comforts OF life.
Called by his people to accept the place
of magistrate, he filled the position acoep-
tably. honorably, serving as member OF
the Quorum Court of this County for sew
eral years, and when death came sudden
ly to summon him away, he was found
still on duty as a representative of the
district whom his neighbors delighted to
honor, and In whose hands their interests
were always safe. He was good conn
selor, prudent, careful, always at ais post
of duty and his place cannot be easily
filed.
George M. Nolen was born in the year
lS3- and resided in and near Pocahon-
tas for many years. He was compare
lively a junior magistrate. Elected 10
fill the vacancy caused by the removal
of Thomas Shea, to McNairy County, he
soon rose to n degree of efficiency an a
magistrate seldom attained by even long
experience. An unusually quiet man,