The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-08-21
SENATOR GEORGE DEAD.
MlSSISSIPPI'S SENIOR SENATOR PASSES
r t-tsPE PEACEFULLY AWAY.
BE Had Been Ill for Q Long Time.-Taken
to the Gulf Coast Two Weeks Aeb,.Thsr.
Death of His Wife Was a Fatal shocks.
Mourned by the Whole South = n, .:

.AeA'AA VI Ills WAC WAS I:tts+A~ SAOcA'.
Monrned by the Whole South. :
Hon. ]. z. George, senior United
States Senator Of Mississippi, died in
Mississippi City, Miss, Saturday at
$3.50 o'clock from heart failure, after
an illness that had lasted to- a greater
or less extent for several years.
Senator George went to Mississippi
||te16ity about HE weeks ago, shortly after
! thu death Of kWae, which event oc.
ot,tel. at Gkfrollton, Miss, July 20.
The death. - his good wife was great
shock to Gen. George, and doubtless
.hastened his. end Mrs. George had
been to him helpmeatt in the true
sense of.the word fronassthe time when
he was poor and struggling young
man, driving team Of oxen for liv.
ipg, until he ,Aads: Hsen successfully
from position to p9htiqn, until for six
teen years be occupied the highest gift
within WITHIN tie pofer :! ef the people of Mis-
For two years more or less Gen.
George hadaspent his time at his old
country home, Cotesworth, about two
miles from Carrollton, where be had
been resting peacefully in contempla-
ton of q well-spent life. IIl-health
compelled him to seek refuge there as
often as he could from the arduous
duties of Lis life as United States Sen.
ator, and he was never really happy
until he got home.under the grand old
trees that surround his place, and
there, in companionship with his
friends and loved ones, spent the time
IN social converse and reading. When
Gen. George WIS last winter lowering
between lie and death at Washington
his wife was at their home in Carroll
ton, too i'll to attend him, and it was
his constant wish then to get homo to
her as quickly as possible.
After the death of his wife it was
seen by those who were with the sens-
tor that Il removal from the cid home
place, so lately saddened, was necessary
to his life, rs there were evidences that
he was fai'ing fast. Accordingly he
was at once taken to Mississippi City
by his son and every arrangement DOS.
sible made for his comfort. He lived
there quietly and in the company of
his own immediate family and relatives,
most OF whom We're at various times
during his illness present at his bed
side. The heart disease with which
Senator George was troubled increased
in intensity, notwithstanding the best
efforts of skilled physicians, and Sat.
urday about 2 o'clock he rclapsed into
an unconscious state, from which he
never revived, and in one aud half
hour was dead
The death of Senator George will be
received with the profoundest regret
all throu 3hout this State, where he has
been for SO many years honored and
respected. Coming as he did from the
humblest walks Of life and rising to
the highest position in the State, he
embodied the type Of Mississippi's
most sterling manhood-a type for
young men to emulate and for all to
admire. In his earliest youth he was
hard worker, characteristic that.
marked his career from trst to last.
He was ever painstaking and earnest,
with pertinacity and fxedness Of
purpose that compelled the preferment
that resulted eventually in his large sue
cess in political life. He was in his
young manhood one of the deepest and
most thorough students of constitu.
tional law, aud it was the possession of
a peculiarly analytical and reasoning
mind that brought him prominently
before the public, and which later had
him called to the Supremaa euchS 81
Mississippi as Chief JUST Ia that