The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-19
DEATH OF A PROMINENT CITIZEN


terday Afternoon at Wrightsvflls
Sound.
DuBrutz Guitar, Esq, n Of Will
mington's most prominent and great
ly honored citizens, passed peacefully
away yesterday afternoon at 5:45
home of his son, Mr.. DuBrutz Guitar,
Jr., on Wrightsville Sound. A few years
g Mr.. Guitar suffered a stroke of
paralysis, and has had three or four
attacks since. He has been an invalid
the past three years and while his
friends have sadly looked forward to
his death, the announcement that the
end has come will sadden the hearts
of all who knew the deceased.
Mr.. Guitar was aged sc years and
was was born in Cumberland county.
He was a son of the late DR.. Fred j.
Guitar, an eminent and leading cfti-
zen, of Wilmington, who practiced his
profession here many years. The de-
ceased was one or d family of four
brothers and three sisters, only two
of whom, Mrs. Jennie c. Lee, of this
city, and Mrs. Henry w. Bradley, of
San Francisco, California, survive him.
His last brother, DR.. Roger Guitar, of
San Francisco, died last November.
Mr.. Guitars parents removed from
Wilmington to Fayetteville, and when
he was a boy the family went to Ala
bama. While he was a youth they
returned t Wilmington and he has
since made this city his home. He
received the foundation of his educa-
ton in Wilmington, and graduated at
the State University, at Chapel Hill,
in 1853, being a classmate of Colonel
X. M. Murchison, Hon. A M. Waddell,
Colonel VIM. l.. DeROSset, Colonel
John D.. Taylor, Mr.. Walker Meares,
the late Mr.. D. G.. Worth, and others
whom We do not now recall. He read
law under the late Hon. George Davis
and was admitted to the bar in 1855.
He practiced his profession at the
Wilmington bar and was a successful
practitioner up to a few years ago
when he a incapacitated by the sick
ness that ultimately terminated his
life. He was for a number of years
clerk and master of the court of equity
and several years 6 he was city at
torney, these being the only public
offices he ever held, preferring to fol-
low his official work and allow the
hOnOrs and emolument of office to fall
on others. He was in the secret SER
vice of the Confederate government
during the civil war.
Mr.. Guitar was married February %.
1866, to Miss Mariana Poisson, daugh-
ter of the late DR.. Louis Julian POis-
son and Miss Eliza Davis, sister of the
late Hon. George Davis and Bishop
Thomas Davis of South Carolina.
They had four children, three of whom
survive him-Mr. DuBrutz Guitar, Jr.,
Of this city, Mrs. E. j. Justice, of Mar
ion, N. c., and Mr.. Louis J. P. Guitar, of
the Consolidated Gold Mines, of Mex
leo. In their bereavement a large
circle of friends and acquaintance
will share their sorrow and sincerely
sympathize with them in the loss of
an affectionate n devoted father.
Mr.. Guitar was a man of sterling in
tegrity and a high sense of honor
marked his life professionally and
otherwise. He was a man of fine
ability, was ever genial and courteous,
and there was no more chivalric gen.
tleman that ever lived. He was char
liable, kind hearted and brave, and
was as modest and unassuming as he
was brave. He was truly a Christian
gentleman, and was during his active
life a leading member of st. PauIs
Episcopal church, being senior war
den and treasurer since it's organlZa-
tion.