The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-02
COL. CHARLTON H. WAY DEAD.
PASSED AWAY AT BEAULIEU AFTER
TWO DAYS ILLNESS.

Had Been in Failing Health for Some
Time, but Until n Few Hours BE-
fore His Death His Condition Was
Not Regarded as CriticaI-Breathed
His Last as MRS. Way Left His Bed
side to Meet DR.. EIIiott-End Came
PeacefuIIy-Wns Col. of the Fifty
fourth Georgia During the Civil
war-ConsuI General at 81. Peters
burg Under Cleveland.
Col Charlton H. Way, one If the best
known citizens of Savannah, died at
his home az Beauleu at 4 o'clock yes
terday afternoon. Stomach trouble was
the immediate cause of his death.
For some time Col Ways friends have
noticed that his accustomed good health
seemed TO have left him. and that he
seemed 40 be rapidly failing. His con-
dition, however, was not thought at all
serious, and when he became worse and
took TO his bed. two days ago, Mrs. Way
oid not even feel it necessary to call in
the services of a physician.
Yesterday afternoon she noticed that he
was growing weaker and apparently was
suffering more than had previously been
the case and a note was dispatched 20 the
city for DR.. W II. Elliott about o'clock.
DR.. Elliott went out to Beaulieu on the
next car, reaching the house just about
4. AS he went up the steps of Col.
Ways home, Mrs. Way, who had been
at the bedside of her husband left him
aud came out on the veranda to meet DR..
Elliott When she left the bedside Col.
Way was breathing quietly, and though
by this time it was seen that his condi-
ton was critical II was not expected that
his dissolution was so nearly at hand.
She returned with DR.. Elliott to the SICK
room. In the interim death had come
quietly, and Col Way had breathed his
last 1t was evident that he had passed
away without a struggle.
The arrangements for the funeral had
not been completed up to a late hour
last night. but it was then understood
that 1t would take place this afternoon.
Whether il will be from the residence al
Beaulieu or whether the body will first
he brought into the city and the services
be conducted at one of the city churches
has not yet been determined.
Col. Way was about 65 years old and a
life long resident of Savannah, of which
his father was also a citizen. He was
enc of large family, but his brothers
and sisters have all left Savannah or are
dead. No one of them lives here to-day
Col WAY was one of the organizers of
the Oglethorpe Light Infantry and was
chosen a subaltern of that command when
1t became part of the state forces in 1856.
During the Civil War he commanded the
Fifty-fourth Regiment of Georgia Infan-
try. The regiment formed part of Mer-
GERS brigade, consisting of the First.
Fifty-fourth. Fifty-seventh and Sixty
third Georgia Regiments. The brigade
saw service in Johnston and Hoods
armies, taking part with the latter gen
ersl in the campaign in Tennessee. After
the war Col. Way returned to Savannah
where he has since resided.
During the first administration of Pres
tdent Cleveland, Col. Way was appointed
consul general to st. Petersburg, succeed
ing there Gen. Pierce NJ. B. Young. He
filled this position with dignity and credit,
the suavity and courtesy of his manners
and the polish and elegance of his bear
ing enabling him 10 discharge its quasi
diplomatic duties with much success.
During the Worlds Columbian Expo
sition, in Chicago. in 1898, Col. Way was
I commissioner from Georgia. During his
life he held other positions and offices OF
the like character for which his tastes
and attachments peculiarly qualified him
In the course of his residence abroad, al
various times he had accumulated a valu-
able and interesting collection of articles
iof vertu, bric-a-brac books. statuary and
paintings most of which was destroyed in
the fire which consumed his residence at
Beauleu several years ago
Col. Way was one of the most brilliant
conversationalists and reconteurs in Sa-
tvannah. With a mind naturally brilliant
and assiduously cultivated, stored with
strange bits of information, amusing anec-
dotes and personal "reminiscences, gather
ed In every quarter of the globe, he was a
delightful companion
Col. Way married Miss Frances Will
1iams, of Milledgeville, who survives him.
There are no children. His death removes
one of the few remaining Savennahians of
Ghe old ante-bellum school
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