The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1902-10-09
DEATH OF {. MARVIN HIGHT.
A Bright and Promising Young Man
Cut Off at the Threshold of Life.

Death is sad under any circum-
stances and TO whoever ii may come,
but when it claims for its victim the
Young man or woman in the roseate
morning of life. full of promise and
ambition, it is doubly SO. Seldom
has the sickness and death of any one
occasioned such interest and sorrow
in the community rs that which we
are now called upon to chronicle.
Mr.. Marvin Hight died at the home
of his parents in this place at a quar-
ter to eight o'clock Sunday morning.
His sickness has been noted in these
columns from time to time for the
past six months or more. He was
taken sick at Charleston in April when
he was there with the Vance Guards
as member of he North Carolina
Provisional Regiment. At first it was
thought he was suffering from an
attack of malaria but his lungs be-
came involved and disease rapidly
undermined his constitution.
All that medical skill could devise
or loving ones provide was done for
him but without avail. He was taken
to Shelby in the hope that change
would prove beneficial. For a while
he seemed to improve. Then came a
decline. The anxious parents feared
the worst. After having been away
one month ne was brought back home
reaching here Saturday, Sept. 9Th.
The Monday following he took car
rio ,.iI oh
did not seem to be worse and he was
able to dress himself and &C to the
table aud eat even on the morning he
died
Edgar Marvin Hight was the oldest
child of Mr.. and Mrs. f. f. Hight.
He was nineteen years old on the
twent ;-siNth of last March. No young
man in the community was more
highly thought of than he. He was
we'll nigh q model young man, of eN-
emplary habits and Christian charac
ter, for whom only admiration was
felt, of whom only praise was spoken.
He knew not the small vices and
frivolities Of life, alas! too common
TO many others. He stood for the
right, the good, the pure, aud he
showed it by the correct life that he
led.
Deceased was member of the
Vance Guards and was a sergeant in
the Company. Capt. Sturges speaks
in terms of the highest praise of
him saying he was true soldier,
faithful to every duty and one Of the
best sergeants the Company ever had.
1t was in the line of duty in the
patriotic service of his State and
country that he contracted the sick
ness that caused his death.
The funeral was held at the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, of which the
deceaed was a consistent member, at
1. 80 O'Clock Tuesday afternoon. Rev.
j. D. Bundy conducted the service
his remarks being touching and APP
propriate to the occasion. The church
was full.
The dead Young soldier was bnried
with military honors the Vance Guards
attending in body with furled flag
and mutfied drum. The pail burers
were Sergeant B. F. Payne, Sergeant
N. W. Willis, Corporal Jack Phelps
Privates r. f. Bryan, Ernest Duvall,
| Leslie Prize.
At the cemetery 4 large concourse
of sympathizing friends were gathered
| to pay the last sad tribute of respect
to the dead. When the grave was
filled and the flowers placed by
loving hands, the customary three
volleys were fired by the military
company, Bugler Louis Lehman
sounded the roll call and there in tn,
bosom of the earth the mortal part o
| their friend and comrade was left tt
repose, his spirit in the presence o
the God who gave it.