Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-07
A C HARGROVE SUICIDES By Shooting Himself in the Right Temple. HE HAD BEEN QUITE SICK
  And His Mind Had Become Temporarily
 Unbalanced
PROMINENTLY SPOKEN OF FOR GOVERNOR
He Was Ono of Alabama's s Best Known and Universally Beloved Citizens Positions of Honor and Trust.
 President State Senate.

Tuskaloosa, Dec. 6.-(Special) )-Prob- ably never before in the history of Tus- kaloosa have the people of this city suf- fered so great a shock as when they heard today that Col. Andrew Coleman Hargrove was dead as the result of a pistol shot through the brain, fired by his own hand. It has been known to his friends for several weeks past that Colonel Hargrove has been in failing health, but they were all unprepared for of a temporary mental alteration due to the effects of a mimic ball which he received in the head at Spanish Fort in April, 1865, and which was lodged beyond the reach of probe and knife,
 Colonel Hargrove was alone in his room between 1 and o'clock when the shot was fired, but his family was in an ad- joining room. He never spoke, and death was almost instantaneous.
 Tuskaloosa and all Alabama mourns the loss of a noble man, learned and able statesman and patriotic citizen.
 Andrew Coleman Hargrove was born in Tuskaloosa county December IS, 1S37 and was consequently nearly 58 years old He was graduated from the Uni versity of Alabama in the class of 1856 and from the law school of Harvard uni versity in 1859. He entered the Confeder- ate service in 1861. and was a member of the famous Warrior Guards, commanded by the immortal Rhodes After year S service in the Virginia army he became a lieutenant in Lumkin's battery of light artillery, and he fought in all the great battles of the western army under Bragg Johnston, Hardee and Hood, and was twice desperately wounded.
 He was a member of the const titutonal convention in 1875 which framed the present constitution of Alabama. He was a state senator from the district composed of Tuskaloosa and Bibb coun- ties from 1876 to 1884. In the latter year he was elected member of the lower house of the general assembly. In 1886 he was again elected to the senate and was chosen president of that body. He was repeatedly urged to stand for gov ernor of tine state, but he never permitted the use of his name. Recently he has been strongly urged to become candi- date for governor at the next election. but failing health, as we'll as other causes. prevented him from yielding to the insistance of his friends. At the time of his death he was professor of equity jurisprudence in the University of Ala bama and a trustee of the Alabama Bryce Insane hospital. He had held various other positions of honor and trust. He had been for many years an official mem- Der of the Methodist church.
 In December, 1865, Colonel Hargrove was married to Miss Cherokee Jemison, tho only daughter of the late Col. Robert Jemson, who succeeded Yancey in the Confederate senate. She survives her husband, and they have two children living, MT. Robert Jemison Hargrove, now a student in the University of Ala bama, and Mrs. A. s. Vandergraaf, to all of whom the sympathies of the people of the state will go out in their great bereavement.