Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-04

IL for candy, etc. he went to his uncle
and hired ii out to him." OF course his
uncle couldn't say no-that he had mon
ey to loan-but he told him all about the
business, and encouraged him to get all
he could honestly and do likewise with
it.. This spirit of ambition, industry, fru-
gality and sobriety was his anchor sheet.
For this reason he had saved up when
he was ~ ytars old $3.50.
He had also studied by the pine-knot
light all these evenings and thus ac-
qulred a good foundation for an educa-
ton.
He then taught school, keeping up his
studies with view to the medical pro-
fession. He married Miss Elizabeth
Graves of Georgia December 8. 1S41,
beautiful and devoted Christian woman,
to whom We're born four sons and three
daughters, of whom one daughter, Laura
Frances, now Mrs. Thompson, and one
son, Henry Holcomb, both now live at
Brandon. Miss. DIR. FEEDERS first wife
died in December, 1872.
DR. Fielder graduated in medicine with
honor from Grafenbury Medical insti-
tute, and was for a time ASSOCIATED with
DrgJ Marion Sims, of worlG-reriowned
fame of Union Springs in eastern Ala
bama and, as DR.. Sims said: DIR. Field
er is my equal-in some things my supe-
rior."
DR. Fielder had made a fortune on his
plantation and also in his practice of
medicine These he lost on account OF
the civil war. However. his ambition
was his, and he started anew to build
him a home and was rewarded.
He was twice sent to the state legisla-
ture from his old homestead. near Desc
toville, Choctaw county. Leaving Choc-
taw county after the war, he moved 10
Morehouse parish. Louisiana, where ne
lived one year. and thence TO Gariands-
VILE. Miss. where he lived eight years;
thence to Cuba, Sumpter county, Ala,
where he bought a large tract or land'
Tn to this time he had been leading,
devoted Christian in the Baptist church.
Thence he removed to Akron. on the Ala
bama Great Southern railroad, Tor
short stay; thence to Birmingham. thlr-
teen years ago, where he purchased lot
and built a house upon 1t.
DIR. Fielder married his second wife,
Miss Matte A. Wright of Choctaw couh-
ty, Alabama. at Cuba station IN July,
1879 To this union was one issue, dying
in infancy, The widow is left to sorrow
for ona who possessed the qualities of M
tellect and heart that belong to the truly
great. Multiplied throughout MS me
were deeds of charity, the works or love,
the words of cheer. His stuff Sings were
inexnressible. but DR. Fielder was phil
osopher. he never lost sight OF the maj
and first great cause He called up th9
early years of Christian JOY, and con-
SIGNING his future to his Infinite father,
day by day awaited ana prayed u al.,.,
cod said. Enough; come up higher
uben Or Fielder replied by stepping IN
to the chariot of encircling glory, and,
with gentle wave of "Adieu for time,
he passed into the realm of endless Gay
Another great soul hath taken its flight
His wife. sister and son, from Bran
| don. Miss. and a few personal tilehus'
| including the writer, We're at MS ped
| side. ~, 49,;
| fer pastor of Peoples Temple, at tine
| family residence, in the presence Vi
| large number of friends who had gath
| tired TO nav their last respects to the EN-
| inent musician. affectionate husband
and father and kind neighbor, whose
brightest wreath is that woven OF the
most brilliant stars in kind deeds
Interment in Woodlawn cemetery.
Calm on the bosom of thy God,
Zen while with us thy footsteps trod
His seal was on thy proW'
Dus+ to its narrow house beneath;
Soul to it's place on high!
They that have seen thy look IN ueatn
| No more may fear to die.
| r.ono are the maths and sad the bowers
| Whence thy meek smile is gone.
| But o, a brighter home than ours
| In heaven is now thine own.
| To his devottd Christian wife, who so
| faithfully provided every possible com
| fort for him and so gently nursed him
| during his awful pain and languishns
| illness and to the affectionate daughter
| and son. whose last ministrations cheer
ed him, we extend the condolences of all
who knew him. Heaven shine into thy
heart its purest light in this darkest
| night. The morning of eternal day dawn
| eth Fraternally, C. l.. MANN.
Catarrh is q constitutional disease.
| Hoods Sarsaparilla is the remedy. 1t
| cures catarrh.