Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-09-20

fully toied for more than forty years, Hon.
 William Porter Grace, though having passed
 his allotted three score and ten, with his
 faculties unaffected by time and his mind
 unclouded by age, peacefully passed to that
 great beyond" Engaged in an argument
 wherein his marvellous powers of convincing
 his fellow men were amply displayed, he
 was shortly after found lying in his office in
 the throes of death by a friend who had
 called. Help was speedily summoned, but it
 was too late, and on the 24th day of June,
 1898, all that was mortal Of William Porier
 Grace peacefully passed away,
 William Porter Grace was born in Caldwell
 county Kentucky, November 22d, 1892. His
 early life was uneventful. His father was Il
 bricklayer and young William learned that
 trade and worked at 1t until he was twenty
 two years of age. He was however very
 studions and became student of Princeton
 College in hts 23rd year. After leaving col
 lege he studied law in the office of a skllful
 practitioner. and h 1e47 was admitted to the
 bur- In that year he left his native State
 and went ta Florida, intending to make that
 State his future home. He however. became
 dissatisfied and subsequently, moved to Ar
 kansas and settled al Pine Bluff which WAS
 then an humble hamlet and formed T ee-
 partnership with Hon. Robert D. Waters. h
 1852 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney
 and filled that position with honor and credit
 to himself He was elector on the Whig
 ticket in 1856 and in 1s60 became an elector
 on the Douglas Presidential ticket and made
 speeches throughout the State in the interest
 of his candidate. During the gloomy times
 just proceeding secession, Col Grace was an
 ardent advocate Of State Rights and was Il
 mcmber of the secession convention, and
 made chairman of the Ordinance Committee, which was the most important committee ill the convention at that time. He was, how ever, strenuously opposed to the policy of
 secession and was one of the strongest sup porters for the maintainance of the Union in that body. but when the State Of Arkansas cast it's lot with the Confederacy, col, Grace acquiesced in it's choice, gracefully bowed to the will of the majority ana entered the army of his glorious Southland. He was i'll several battles, but his health failing he WAS compelled to retire from active military duties before the close of the war, but con tinued to lend his talents, industry and for tune to the ConfederacY.
 While never q politician or seeker after l spells, yet the citizens of this State requent- ly honored him with high positions. He was a candiuate for Governor of the State on the Prohibition ticket in 1884, and his name was frequently mentioned in conn ection with other high offices
 While not wealthy man. Col. Grace was we'll and comfortably fixed, and left quite an estate in city and country property. He was brilliant and successful lawyer and attained great distiction as attorney for the defend ants in criminal prosecutions. He died in 1 his 76th year. loved, honored and respected | by his friends and the community at large and was the representative Of the people in l the State Senate.
 THEREFORE BE TT RESOLVED that i'll l his death the bar Of Pine Bluff has lost an able, eloquent, and highly respected member, his relatives a kind. loving and considerate l friend; the poor of this city and community protector whose place will be hard to fill; l the State Senate one of it's most illustrious members and the State citizen whose loss 1 will be severely felt.
 1 BE TT FURTHER RESOLVED that t copy
 of these resolutions be presented to the fami- ly of Mr. Grace; one be spread upon the records of the Jefferson Circuit Court and that anotaor copy be furnished the State l Senate of the State of Arkansas with the re- quest that il set apart memorial page on it's records in memory of the deceased N. T. WHITE, Chairman; 1 w. T. WOODBRIDGE, J. w. CRAwFoRD, T. r. SORRELLS. w. M. HARRISON, SR.