The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-11-23
Peculiar Feeling Of Attachment
for the Noted MOntgOnerian
DIED OF CANCER OF TONGUE
He Was the Pride and SoIace of His
Mother and His Tender Care of
Her Endeared Him
to All.

| Inc ueaIn OF no man IN montgomery
could have so touched the sympathies
and the sentiment of this community as
that of Tennent Lomax who passed
away at las this morning No one who
has not lived here can appreciate the
peculiar feeling of attachment which ami
mated the minds of the people. His
father was a prominent and well beloved
man who went out at the first call for
troops and laid down his life at Seven
Pines, lamented and praised as no other
Montgomery soldier and as few other
Alabamians. The boy, then a mere
child of three years, inherited his name.
and all the pride and tenderness that
went with 1t. He was bright known to
everybody, and grew up in a sense the
pet and pride of the community. AS he
developed he more than justified this
feeling in the popular mind, and walked
always in the daylight which shines on
a youth Of such promise. He was never
above labor, and at one time in his boy
hood earned honest money as 8 messen-
ger boy for the Western Union Telegraph
| company. He was also a page in the
house, and there had his first introduce
ton to public life His mother, wealthy
woman before the war, shared the fate
of others, and his youth knew what self
| denial meant.
Entered University In 1879.
When he entered the University of Ala
| bama in 1876 he had just enough in sight
to get through on, and no boy there lived
simpler, spent less or more conscientious
| ly and made the most Of it. His career
| at the university, where he won the
oratOrical medal and was the honor man
| of the law class, intensified the pride of
this community in his talents, and to the
| day of his death this feeling grew
| stronger. Honors were pressed on him.
| and he was an active factor In all the
towns activities. He asked for nothing
the people of this county were not ready
to give, and all of them looked forward
to the time when they would rally around
| him and cheer him on to some high and
higher place than any to which he had
aspired. Even the United States senator
ship was believed by thinking men here
to be sure honor which the future held
for him.
Another thing about Tennent Lomax
appealed strongly to the tenderness of all
men. and especially all women-his devo-
ton to his mother. He was the prime, the
| solace, the darling of her heart, and he
gave her affection back with devotion
and tender duty that was marked and
appreciated by even the general public.
He was ambitious to go to congress, and
| years ago the way seemed at least invit-
ing. He put 1t aside because duty called
him to stay with her. He guarded her
j interests and adapted his life to hers, and
| as his two half brothers died one after
the other only a few short years ago,
| he became her all, and now at the age OF
| IA she weeps around his bier, chldless,
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| reward, lonely figure of grief that
touches every heart and brings tears to
many eyes all unused to weeping.
Court House In Mourning.
The courthouse where he so long
served with such consummate ability as
solicitor, is draped in mourning and
courts are suspended. Little else is talked
| on the streets. The funeral will take
place from the Court Street Methodist
| church at II o'clock tomorrow, and 1t
| takes no prophetic vision to know that
the coming Sabbath will see in Montgom-
! cry such a tribute to his memory as has
been paid to few of her illustrious sons.
Camp Lomax Confederate Veterans,
named for his father. will follow his re-
mains in q body to their last resting
| place. The Sons of Veterans the bar,
| the knights of Pythias and other bodies
| - 'uhich he was member, will turn
|
| will be conducted by Or. A. J. Lamar,
pastor of the church of which his mother
has been for nearly fifty years a leading
| member.
Only a few days ago letter was re-
ceived from the national grand chancel-
lor of the Knights of Pythias. notifying
| him that he had been appointed chair
man of the Judiciary committee. This
was a high honor from the order TO
which he had devoted much of his time,
| and toward which he seemed to entertain
| a peculiar fondness.
Cancer of the Tongue.
| The facts concerning the long illness
| which brought him to the grave have
been given before. 1t was late in Decem-
| Der or early in January when he noted a
small soreness on the tongue, to which he
| applied some simple household remedies.
! In March he consulted his friend and
physician, Dr.. Glenn Andrews, who told
him 1t was growth that must be at
| once cut out. This was his first notice of
| the fact that malady had him in its
| grasp. He went to Hot Springs for a
| course of treatment to rid his system of
| the effects of tobacco which he smoked
to excess. and then went to New Orleans
| for operation. Skill did what 1t could,
| but the malady returned. He was taken
| to New York, not hopefully, but more for
| occupation for his mind and hopes, and
| there the x ray could do MIN no good
and his stricken mother returned home
to bear her inevitable sorrow as best she
might. The cancer did its work none the
less surely that 1t was slow, and tomor-
row he will be laid beside his fathers
broken shaft in lakewood cemetery.
| He bore it all bravely as became his
| race and lineage; was face to face with
| death and knew it, and surrendered to
the grim conqueror of all men with no
| tremor of his stout heart. He was con-
scious as long as strength lasted, and
| died at the last easily and peacefully