Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-08
WRAPPED IN PROFOUND SORROW
Is TuskaIoosa Over the Death of Hon. An-
 drew Cole HaIgrnYe.

drew Cole haTgroye.
 Tuskaloosa, Dec 7.--(Special Corre- spondence.)-A pail hangs over this city and sadness reigns in all circles.
 Hon. Andrew Cole Hargrove commit ted suicide at his home at 1 o'clock on the 9th instant. He had been indisposed for several weeks and ended his life by sending a bullet crashing through his brain. The physicians say that he had lost his mind. He received a bullet wound in the late war and the ball was never removed, having penetrated his head, and insanity can be traced to this cause.
 He has been confined to his room for several days, and no one was with him at the time he shot himself, but the fam fly were in the house and hearing the shot hastened into his room to find him a corpse. Thus ends the life of one of the purest, noblest and best men that Alabama has ever produced. First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
 Colonel Hargroye was an exemplary Christian, being a member of the Meth odist Episcopal church and a living ex- ample of truth, sobriety and Christian manhood and leaves behind him pure and unsullied record that has not spot or blemish upon 1t.
 He was a lawyer of ability and stood at the head of the bar in his native state. u close student and an upright, honest man that never stopped to do a wrong, but who knew the right, and knowing dare maintain. No man was more wide ly knwn and universally loved than he. Having served his county in both houses of the legislature and having been president of the senate, he was known throughout the length and breadth of the state. He has frequently been urged to become a~candidate for governor. which he has modestly refused.
 At the time of his death he was prac- ticing law in this city and was member of the law faculty of the University of Alabama. He was born in Tuskaloosa county on December IS, 1889, and has been resident of this county nearly all of his life. He was a man of culture and refinement pure in spirit and noble in nature, ever ready to aid and comfort those in distress and advise and council the young men, whom he loved. No man has done more for the ad- vancement of Tuskaloosa than he. Pa triotic always looking ever to the inter- ests of good government, he could al- ways be found in the front rank fighting for those principles which looked to the upbuildng of society.
 He was the peer of any man, both in church and state. 'Tis sad to think that | in defense of his native land he received the wound that eventually brought on lHSdHfly dHu tuen utdiIl- pul Sucll IS | the record of many noble men, and while | he Is gone. there are many left who will revere his memory and revert to his life | as one worthy of emulation. All of Ala | bama will be pained to hear of the end of | this graud man, whose life was given to | Its interests and who has given his tired | body to mother earth and his noble spirit | has taken its flight to it's Heavenly home, where 1t sill watches with pleasure per | haps the progress of his county and | state. May men look to his life and emulate his example. take up the work 1 where he left it off and press il on to per- | lection.