The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-23

were his devoted wife and a company
of grief STRICKEN relatives and friends
He was in the 65th year of his age.
Captain William Stewart Warrock
was born in Elizabeth City, Pasquo-
tank county. on August 2, 1885. He
was a son of DR.. Louis and Mrs. Mary
NJ. Warrock. who were natives of Vir-
ginia, DR.. Warrock having been a
successful practicing physician.
The deceased was married to Miss
Georgia Anna Harris, daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas NJ. Harris, on No
vember Is. 1859. Their union vas
blessed with one child, a son, William
Louis, who lived scarcely more than
one year., having died August 81. 1862.
At the outbreak of the civil war, Mr..
WarrOck was located in Montgomery,
Ala. where he was engaged in the
printing business, and true to the cause
of his country. ne abandoned his work,
left his home and enlisted his services
in the confederate army as a cavalry
man. He did valiant service under
General Joe Wheeler, ranking as cap
tain in command of a company of the
First Alabama cavalry.
Captain Warrock did active service
IN quite a number Of battles, the most
notable being It Shiloh, He made a
splendid record as a valiant soldier
and a very popular captain. After the
wal lC AtOh " hNCIN III NliC
noble work Of perpetuating the MEM
Dry of the sacrifices made by the
southern soldiery in their struggle for
the maintenance of what they
firmly believed were their rights as a
people, al the same time yielding as a
true man to the d~ispensation Of provi-
dence and according the victorious fed
eral government a patriotic support.
Captain Warrock was a charter
member of the Cape Fear Camp,
United Confederate veterans, n al
ways took a lively interest in the work
of the camp.
At the close of the war, Captain
Warrock and wife came to Whining
ton. He accepted a position late in the
fall Of 1865 with Major William H. Ber-
nard, who at a time published a
paper known as The Dispatch and "a
a job printing office in connection with
the newspaper. Afterwards the name
of the paper was changed to The
Morning Star. and through all these
a Mr.. WarrOck has been in charge
OF h mechanical department of the
office.
He was unusually proficient in the
printing business and during his bus
mess career accumulated considerable
property. much of it being valuable
real estate located in various parts of
the city.
\ captain NarrOck was A deVOut
member of the Presbyterian church..
having connected himself with the
First church in this city on April S,
1881. He was active in the work of
the church and was honored with a
number of the most important and
sacred offices OF the church. He was
elected a ruling elder on June Z. 1886.
and served faithfully up to the time he
was stricken with the fatal malady.
During his painful illness he display
ed wonderful fortitude, bearing his af-
Fiction in the r Christian spirit n
passing through h valley and shadow
Of death as one who was truly sup
| ported by the rod and staff of his Gre
ator and Saviour.
The deceased was an honored Mason.
knight of Pythias and Odd Fellow,
being a Past Master Mason in Will
mington Lodge No. 31e; a past chan
cellor in Stonewan lodge. K. Of P, and
| a past grand in Orion Lodge of Odd
Fellows.
Capt. Warrock leaves a devoted wife
and a brother, Mr.. E. S. Warrock, the
latter of Savannah, Ga. He arrived
here yesterday and was at the bedside
when Captain Warrock passed away.
Mr.. l.. w. Warrock, a nephew of the
deceased, also arrived here from Ham
let Sunday.
The sympathy of the entire commu-
nifty goes out especially to Mrs. War
rock in her a bereavement in that in
addition TO the death of her husband.
her aged mother, Mrs. Mary c, Harris,
In the SSrd year OF her age, is and has
been for several days very critically i'll
and only a few weeks ago, her broth
I er, MI. C. M. Harris. died, she having
! thus lost husband and brother within