Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-23
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.


| Major Eakle was a typical Virginian
and was devoted to the State and her
| history and interests. He was a culti-
waited and courtly gentleman, gallant
| soldier, and a man of fine business quail
| ties. While he was best known In con-
nection with hotel and springs life, he had
| also achieved success in the mercantile
world.
Major Eakle was a native Of Augusta
county, Va, where the early part OF his
| life was spent, and was 73 years of age.
He moved to Greenbrier county, w. Va,
about 1856, and engaged in the mercantile
business at Lewisburg for several years.
He then accepted a position as chief clerk
at the Greenbrier White Sulphur, with
which in after years his name became
so closely linked. He remained at the
hotel until the war broke out, when he
entered the Confederate service, enlisting
in the Greenbrier Cavalry, a company
formed near the springs, and was elected
lieutenant. He served with great gall
lantry and distinction, and was gradually
promoted through the grades until he held
the rank of major in the Fourteenth Cav
airy Regiment. He was conspicuous for his
gallantry and bravery on the field, and
was four times wounded-during the bat
tie of the wilderness quite seriously, the
ball penetrating his hip and passing al
most entirely through his body. From
this wound he never entirely recovered,
and he suffered considerably from It in
his older days. He was in the thick of the
fight at Gettysburg, and in that memora-
BILE battle had several horses shot under
him. He was also present at Chambers
burg when that town was burned by the
Confederates.
CONNECTED WITH THE EXCHANGE.
After the war Major Eakle returned to
Virginia and accepted the position of chief
clerk at the Exchange and Ballard hotels,
in this city, spending his winter months
here and his summer months at the White
Sulphur. He continued serving at both
places until in 1884 he was made superin-
tendent OF the White Sulphur, and as
suming entire charge Of the popular re-
sort, remained there until 1894, when he
retired from active business and went TO
Lewisburg, where ne passed his reclining
years on his handsome stock farm about
two miles from the town.
Major Eakle was a man of the truest |
and noblest type. He was exceedingly |
popular, and though a great student, he |
pursued his studies only with a view to |
obtaining information which would make |
him more entertaining to his friends, and |
in this he was eminently successful. as no |
man was more highly esteemed by the |
people generally than Maj. Eakle. He was |
a thoroughly moral man, though he never |
connected himself with any church, and |
had high regard for the religious be- |
liefs of others.
Deceased never married. In later years /
his niece, Miss Annie Eakle. whom he had |
practically adopted. lived with him. Be-
sides her, he Is survived by several nieces
daughters of his deceased sister, Mrs |
Ben. Patterson, and two nephews-Mr. b.
f. Eakle Jr. manager of the Sweet Cha |
lybeate Springs and DR.. j. L. Eakle, of |
New Hope, Augusta county.
The remains will be inferred in Augusta
and the funeral will probably
take place some time tomorrow after
noon. Mr.. p NJ. Fry, OF the Jefferson,
who was closely associated with the de-
ceased for . number of years. and other
will probably go from Richmond
TO attend the funeral.