The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-16
Demise Great Shock to
Friends.
END CAME UNEXPECTEDLY
Twice Mayor Of Montgomery
and Alderman Ten Years.
He Was a Native of This City and
Had Been Prominent in Its
Business Life Nearly Half
q Century-Funeral
Saturday Morn


The news of the death Of Captain John
H. Clisby. which occurred at $3.50 o'clock
Yesterday afternoon, was a great shock
to the people of Montgomery. While
his health had been impaired several
years. he was down town Wednesday and
failure of his heart during an acute at
tack of indigestion. accompanied by
nausea, was wholly unexpected by his
friends and his family.
Captain Clisby had been prominent in
the public life of Montgomery for nearly
half century. He served the city as
an Alderman from the Second Ward ten
years, was twice Mayor Of Montgomery,
was intimately associated with the bust
ness life of the community throughout his
life, took an active interest in the well
fare of the city and its people and was
largely responsible for the splendid mate
rial improvement Of Montgomery during
the past fifteen years. Naturally the
whole people of the city were interested
in such a man. He knew them and
they knew him. While some of them
differed with him on public questions.
Captain Clisby counted every citizen OF
Montgomery his friend and the news of
his death caused great sorrow as 1t spread
throughout the city yesterday afternoon.
When death entered the chamber Of his
residence at S04 South Perry Street just
before o'clock yesterday afternoon
several members Of the family of Captain
Clisby were at his bedside No one
1 = aSd he
family physician had not long since de-
parted from the residence feeling sure
that Captain Clisby was not in immediate
danger
About 3 o'clock yesterday morning
Captain Clisby was seized with chill.
He awakened his adopted son, John
Clisby, Jr., who was sleeping with him
and the little fellow. seeing that his
father was very ill, aroused the house
| hold. Captain Clisby suffered violent at
tacks of nausea throughout the morning
and the family physician visited him AT
| 7 o'clock, at 10 o'clock and again about
Q o'clock. He was entirely conscious
and expressed the hope that the nauseat-
| ing spells would soon pass away.
End Came Suddenly.
| A few minutes before o'clock and
| while young John Clisby and George C.
L d
| other relatives were in the room. a
servant raised Captain Clisby to admin
| lister medicine. He reclined on the side
| of the bed and slowly rested himself or
| the pillows again. His brother quickly
| glanced into his face and discovered that
| life had left the body. Captain Clisby
| had passed into the Great Beyond
| without a last message.
| For ten years Captain Clisby had been
| sufferer from sciatica which became sc
acute that he retired from active busi-
ness life about three years ago, after
| the expiration Of his last term as Mayor
| Of Montgomery He had been living
| quietly at his semi-suburban home on
South Perry Street to which he removed
| on January 7th of this year after having
| sold his former residence on Moulton
Street to the Standard Club for club
house. Captain Clisby manifested a
deep interest in the improvements of the
| Perry Street residence and grounds and
under his direction a force of workmen
were engaged in improving the grounds
yesterday when death came into his life.
John Hughes Clisby was native of
| Montgomery. He was born in this city
October 9Th. 1870. His father was John
Ciisby. a native of Medford. Mass. who
was one of the pioneers of this section
of Alabama having settled at Washing
ton on the Alabama River about 1926 His
mother was Emily Hughes. the daughter
| of well known and highly esteemed
Montgomery County family.
| About 1892 the father of Captain Clisby
located in Montgomery and he received
| his first impressions in this city. He
received his education in the schools of
Montgomery and at Nardisvilie. near Tai