Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-12
DEATHOF R,M,bOOKER
Passed Away at 2:15 Yester-
day Afternoon.
SKETCH OF HIS CAREER
Animated Scenes In Judge Lees Court
While Trying to Secure Jurors in
the -Ashby Case. Other
Items of Interest.


Captain Richard NJ Booker. of this
crty, than whom no man in Eliza beth
City county was better known, died at
| his hc1ne on QW- en- street at Is minutes
past O'Clock. yesterday afternoon. after
an illness of eight days. The dying man
was surrounded by the members oc his,
| family, his brothers and sisur ard q
| number of friends. He pasSd away
| conscious of oil that was taking place
around him, and that for him the sun
| light of life was SLOWLY hut s,ra,y ga
ing. He seemed to n ell no fear. Tn,
| end came calmly ami peacefully. With
| gentle words he Spoke to his We ping
wife: and kindred, bidding them dry
their tears, for he had passed the limit
indicated his desire for pencil and pa
per- aniI when they were handed to him
| he wrote Thesis words:
| Hampton, Va. Feb. H. 1895
Il am dying on this day. and it seems
| TO me like an ordinary piece of bust
MSS"
| Yesterday Z wick ago Captai, Booker
| returned from Richmond, where he had
been looking after important busines IS
interests. H. was i'll when he reached
| his home. "A severe chill Followed and
he was compelled to take his bed. Still
| IT was not Thought that he was s. riousiy
sick, and his family believed that few
| days of careful nursing wruld bring a
return of health. On the streets his I'LL
| ness was not known until Thursday ey-
enlng, by which time his condition be-
came alarming The night that followed
was one Of painful anxiety to the family
A consultation of physicians was call.d
and Yesterday morning the last hope of
me doctors fled Typhoid pneumonia mad
fastened its deadly grip upon him anI
human SIKH was unable to break it.
knowing that he could not survive til.
day, Mr. Booker sent for Colonel Thos.
1apo aild' Quietly adjusted his business
affairs.
He had not been Well for year and
seemed TO realize, that he was not only
approaching tne evening of life, but
that its night was not far distant. His
view or existence appeared to be char
acterlZed by Stolcal r-Signation. He did
not long fer the end but yet be did not
rear it. And SO, it was With him yes
terday. when the nlessens' bearing the
flnal Summons stood before him. There
was no dread OF Geath. but he passed
away as oh,-' VINO W-ars the drapery of
peasant dcsams.'
R!chard VI. Booker was born on Feb
ruafy s. 1857, and hence was 81 years of
age. He first saw the light in the ia
nous manson on Back river not far
from I'M waters of Chesa peake Bay,
named by his father. George Booker. the
Sheiwood: On this faEgn1 the finest in
eastern Virginia, he remained until thu
clsl. war broke out: Then. being an
atutiLt ad'2cate OF the principles upon
,ssh, one s.outnsFn star s based their
rlsht 70 Withdraw from the Union he
lett virginia ana went to Macon, Ga,
Where ne became "a member of thu, pro-
H vs. aFlny, Joining thv oglethorpe
re.ilSs as private. mus sixty Gays be
~ lns convention al iAcntnonu passed
t - orultanSe OF secession, MT. Booker
t thu'; s,,a a'!'s ,e sold!sF ready to take
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q aouli IN Miich thers was no war,
a, ~. ne 80 a S1o 10Y p Enisson to Join the
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snt 80 nc .'liie Iortn win al. speeh.
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