The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-12-10
All Sumter Sorrows Over The Loss--
Sketch of His Life---Business sus-
pended as a Mark of Respect.

Gen. Edwin Warren Noise died at,
MS home on Warren Street shorty
after Z O'Clock last Monday night
in the seventy-frst year of his age,
after an illness of more than a
month The end was not unexpected,
his condition for several days past
having been SO critical that it was
apparent to all that he had passed
into the shadow of death and
would soon cross to that other shore
to rejoin his comrades who wore the
II is given to few men of the promi
nence attained by Gen. Noise to be
so generally beloved, to have so many
sincere friends and so few enemies.
And the enemies he had were made IN
the service Of mis- State and country,
and it was the principles that he re-
presented and not his personality that
made enemies, for he was one OF those
rare men who made friends easily by
his spontaneous geniality and bound
them to himself by hooks Of steel by
his sterling worth To the poor and
needy he was q friend in deed, an
ever present help in time Of trouble,
and he has no more sincere mourners
today than are to be found among the
poor and improyident-whites and
negroes alike-who, when all others
refused them, never appealed in vain
to him who now sleeps his last sleep.
His was charity that was so broad
that it covered multitude Of sins and
he extended it to the unworthy as gen.
erously and freely as to the worthy,
for he recognized the world-old truth
that it is the unworthy who are most
often in the direst need. Yet he ex-
tended helping hand to many
worthy ones who were sinking beneath
the billows of adversely and assisted
them to gain foothold on the rock
of self-support and prosperity. His
good deeds live after him and many
are here to rise up and bless him.
Generous to fault, his benefactions
we're made while he lived and he died
a Door man, as far as this worlds
goods go, but rich beyond compare
in good deeds bestowed and kindnesses
done in the name of humanity.
His fame as an advocate and orator
Will live after him and his success at
the bar was commensurate with his
abilities. For years he was the lad-
nlitted leader of the Sumter bar as an
orator, and his reputation extended
beyond the borders of the State.
When the true sons Of South
Carolina rose in their might
to redeem the State from the
hands of aliens, renegades and ne
groes he was called TO the front, and he
did his part like man and patriot
The red shirt Democrats of '76 still
remember how be rode with Hamp-
ton from the mountains to the sea,
and how his eloquence, his zeal and
courage inspired them to stand stead
fast for white supremacy and an honest
government. To do this he abandoned
a most lucrative law practice, and,
being elected Adjutant and Inspector
General in 1876, he served for four
years, and declined reelection III 1880.
Not satisfied with the pecuniary sacri-
fees he had already made, the deplor-
able condition of the schools of the
State appealing to his sympathies, he
gave all of his salary to the public
schools the second year. he held Office.
It is but natural that such man
should be missed in a community and
that his death causes universal sor-
row, and today there are many sad
hearts in Sumter. But death came to
him in the fullness of time, after long,
well spent and useful life; and the sor-
row that is felt is tempered with glad
ness that he was spared so long to do
good and to set a worthy example.
| SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Edwin ". Noise was born in Char
lesion, S. c., Nay 81, 1882, and at
tended in early life the schools of the
| county and the academies taught by
John S. Grips and Sachtleben and
Miles, of Charleston. At the age Of
Is he was obliged to leave school to
do something for himself, owing to
his fathers lack of means. He work
ed for while in a wholesale grocery
| in Charleston, and then went into the
registry Office, where be remained
about two years. studying law. He
1 then, in 1856, removed to Columbus,
Ca, opening law Office at that place.
/ When the war between the States
broke ont he was among the first to
respond to the call to arms and in
July, 1861, he organized company OF
| 120 men, 50 of whom he mounted al
his own expense, costing him $4,000
all of his little fortune. The com
pany was named for him, and after
ward became company a, of the Sew.
enth Confederate calvary, Col. W. G.
Claiborne commanding, Of which com
pany Mr.. Noise was made captain. II
1868 he was made major of the Seventh
. regiment, and near the close Of the
uar was appointed commander OF tho
regiment, though he never received
bis commission as colonel.
lie was in the army Of NortherI
: Virginia. under Gen. Robert E. Lee
and partici pated in the battles Of Vel
) low Tavern. Brandy Station, Gettys
burg, Five Forks, Averysboro, il th
5 trenches at Petersburg, in the battl
) of the Mine, and at Bentonville
With 200 men be built the dams i,
) Hetch's Run, in Virginia, near Peters
: burg, to protect Lees left flank agains
Grant. he was also in the fight at tn