The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1900-03-01
Observation-Disclosures
DEATH OF DR.. JOHN II. TUCKER.
Henderson Mourns the Loss of One
of Her Most Useful and Best Beloved
Citizens

of Her Most Useful and Best Beloved
Citizens.
For three years or more friends O
DR.. John Hill Tucker have noticed
with painful interest the rapid giving
| away of his health. Two or tire.
times he has been very near to deaths
door, but he rallied from each attach
and appeared to get better for while
But he knew as did others it was only
| question of time with him, and hus
band his strength as best he should
and seek health wherever he would
that time at best could not be long
And so the weeks and month:
passed by. Although DR.. Tucker was
able to keepup his practice to limited
extent until the rigorous weather O.
winter came on, since that time he
had been confined to his home, his
physical condition gradually growing
weaker. Saturday morning he APP.
peared to be doing as we'll as usuaI
but when he awoke and found it rain.
ing, the atmosphere heavy and OPP
pressive he remarked to a member oil
VIZ family ILLS W III uulSu Ilc.
Throughout the day the sick man
suffered much finding it difficult te
breathe at times. He realized his con-
dition fully and warned those abou,
him that the end was near. AS the
day wore away and night came his
condition remained about the same
Later he began to sink when he called
h IL ,Vifa onH oh 10 CT 40,
Perfectly composed and with his mind
as clear as it ever was the dying man
talked about and gave directions con-
corning the funeral and other matters
as calmly and deliberately as if he had
been arranging for a pleasure trip and
expected to return to home and loved
ones in little while. He declined to
take anything to relieve pain which he
might be suffering saying he prefer
red to endure that rather than to have
his mind clouded so he could not see
and know what was going on about
him. The thoughtful, considerate
gentleman to the last he even refused
to have brother physician called
saying it would do no good, it was
raining and sleeting, the weather was
cold and bitter and he did not want
to make the Doctor go out such a
night as that.
Raising himself upon one elbow and
taking the hand of his faithful and
devoted VIE in the other with his
loving and affectionate children near
he spoke tender and comforting words
to them and without sigh or strug-
gle conscious to the very end he
breathed his last at fifteen minutes
after eleven o'clock, passing away as
gently as little child falls asleep
upon it's mothers bosom.
DR.. Tucker was SO years old last
October He was born in Brunswick
county, Virginia, and came to Hen
derson in 1873. This had been his
home ever since. He soon became
one of the leading physicians of the
State, an eminence which he main
tanned to the day Of his death. He
Carolina Medical Society and had
been its president.
Besides being a fine physician and
successful business man DR.. Tucker
was socially one of the most captiva-
ting and agreeable of gentlemen. He
was a charming conversationalist,
genial warm-Rearted gentleman
and citizen who took an active in
terest in every scheme for the adj
vancement of his profession and in
the material interests of the commun-
ity in which he lived.
DR.. Tucker had for many years been
a faithful communicate of the Episco-
pal church, of which he was long a
useful and honored official. Jealous
of it's welfare and devoted to it's high
est interests to all of it's duties and
deliberations he brought that ripe
wisdom and that calm judgment
which made him SO signally success
full in the world at large.
The medical profession in this State
has been honored and its citizenship
adorned by many men of superior
worth and noble character, but none
has left behind him a higher name
than DR.. John H. Tucker. A Virgin.
ian by birth and loving his native
State with a tilial affection he was
vet true son of North Carolina, loya
to her every interest, proud of hel
institutions and cherishing her name
and traditions as if to the name!
born. He loved his God, his State
and his people, and served them wei
and faithfully.
DR.. Tucker was a perfect type o
the Southern Christian gentleman
Saying this all has been said tina
language can convey. All the eulogie
that were ever written upon STORED
pages; all the epitaphs that were eve
Inscribed in all the ages; all the EN-
blazoned symbols of bronzed shaft o
sculptured marble never contained :
higher tribute.
After the funeral one who knew DR.
Tucker we'll said: They have burie'
the best man in Henderson," An'
the speaker is not given to over nue.
praise, assuredly not to fulsome flat
terv. In this estimation other
shared. Certainly Henderson had n
better citizen. We never knew fine
gentleman. He was man OF clea
heart and pure mind, one whom t
love was bit to know. He was in
! deed a gallant, golden hearted gen
tleman, true man and sincere friend
His life was gentle and his soul sir
cere. Of him it may well be said:
| "He was friend without foe,
+ A man without guile;
He never caused tear to flow,
Save when he died
We count it privilege to plac
upon record this expression of al
| probation and esteem of the manifol
| gifts of heart and head of this goo
man, and the deep sense of loss whic
the community sustains by his deatf
The funeral was held from tn
Church of the Holy Innocents at
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The rec
tor, Rev. Julian f. Ingle, conducte
the services. being assisted by Re-
W. S. Pettigrew. A large concours
of sorrowing relatives and FRIEND