The leader., 1898-01-05
IN MEMORIAM.

DIED.-At his home, eight miles
southwest of Brookhaven, Miss, ON
December 9th, 1897, X. Z. CLARK,
aged 63 years.
The deceased was born in the south
ern part of Lincoln, then part
Of Amite county, in the year 1884.
Most of his life was spent within the
present limits of Lincoln county.
During the war he was member of
the Seventeenth Regiment of Missis-
sippi Volunteers, serving as Cavalry
man under Forrest and S. d. Lee.
After the war he engaged in teaching
for some time. By industry and econ
omy he was enabled to purchase, near
the head of Big Creek, a good farm,
where he resided for nearly thirty
years previous to the time of his death.
He was tax assessor of Lincoln county,
for one term, and later a member of
the Board of Supervisors of the same
county for two years. He always took
an active part in any movement which
he believed to be for the public good.
His sympathy for others led him to pro-
vide for the wants of any stranger who
approached his gate in need of food or
shelter. No fellow being, however des-
titute of friends or money, was ever
turned by him away unprovided
for. AS a neighbor, he was ever
ready to render to one less for
tunate than himself, all the assist
ance in his power. But it was in
mis- devotion to his family that he man
ifested most fully that kindness of soul
which was so characteristic Of him.
His entire life was devoted to the
welfare of his children. He never
spent his earnings for those things
which were suited merely to the salts
faction of his own appetites, but on the
other hand, he often denied himself
the necessaries of life that he might
provide for the wants of those he loved
with an affection stronger than life
itself. A few years ago, having be-
come involved in debt, he applied him
self so diligently to hard labor on the
farm that ere he was aware of the fear
full consequences, he was fast held IN
the clutches of chronic rheumatism
and disease of the kidneys. The physi-
clans to whom he applied for treatment
did all in their power to relieve his
condition but without avail. He went
| from one stage of disease to another,
till finally all the vital organs were in
volved in the physical wreck. About
eighteen months ago he was struck by
paralysis of the left side. This made
| hAl a
| however, partially recovered from the
effects of paralysis and became able,
with a little assistance, to walk about
the house. But the fountain of physi-
cal strength had been forever checked
by disease. His blood, the great vital
izer of the body, had become impover-
ished, and his constitution broken
down. About week before his death
he fell into a stupor from which he
only partially recovered q few times.
For twenty -four hours before the
dread summons came he had slept
soundly. And when the stern message
of Death called him away, he merely
fell into q deeper sleep. Without a
groan, without struggle, he yielded
up the ghost.
The only change perceptible in his
pale countenance was rest from the
iabored breathing Of dying humanity.
| We laid him to sleep at the feet OF
his honored parents, both Of whom had
preceded him by several years to the
land Of the spirits.
He leaves wife and ten children to
share in the bereavement occasionep
by his death. How fieeting all our
earthly joysi How transient the
domestic ties that bind our hearts
about the common hearthstonet
.How strange II seems, with so much gone
| OF life and love, to still 1--we on
/ Yet Love will dream aud Faith Will trust
4 Since He who knows .ur needs h Jus
That somehow. somewhere meet We mlist9'
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