The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-04
DEATH CLAIMED HIM.
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--,onra at the meeting and their
telionce on the trip to Augusta. Forty
p,bars of the camp certainly, possi-
plt" ,.erv much larger number, will
make the trip
+ing. of the camp last night. When
n.retarv McIntire called the name of
Slsident Falligant there was no re-
ose. and in calling the meeting to
Isr Vice President Young said:
".5-o,orad es: our president, whom We
nected to answer the roll call here To-
eALpSt has gone to answer another roll
MI vi in the realms beyond the sky. On
a. tuture occasion we shall appoint
'V5av to pay tribute to his memory
- EXPRESS our respect for his quail
az as man and comrade and our
'iaf at his loss. We are here tonight
carry out, as nearly as we may, his
of-Axpressed wishes, remembering
sot he has said with Tennyson that
u I.Sen his bark put out from shore, he
roold have no mourning in the port
ord that he hoped to meet his Pilot
lace to face.
sympathy and Respect.
The city was plunged in mourning
..ben The news of Judge Falligant's
OscteA. spread rapidly from one Sec
ian to the other. The expressions of
rfief were not confined to any one
slass of the population, but every race,
zoe sex and degree united in paying
ibute TO the virtues and the loving
and lovable qualities of the gentle
spirit.
confederate Veterans Association will
~ ,fv,o, n
rreath of laurel, framing Confederate
hattle flag of red and white immor-
teles.
The laurel wreath of the Daughters
If the Confederacy. which these loyal
women of the South place upon the
casket of every Southern soldier, was
cent to Judge Falligants home. Ac-
companying it was the banner of the
chapter, with the request that it be
used to drape the casket until it was
consigned to earth. To the members
of the chapter Judge Falligants low
able traits of character had always
been made especially evident, and they
felt for him an affection that will en-
1ure beyond the grave.
II is expected that the members of
the chapter shall attend the funeral
services at Christ Church and though
nc formal order has been issued there
is little doubt that every. one of them
who can do so will be present. 1t is
lust a little portion of their love and
respect they hope in this manner to
evince.
From all parts of the state and the
South kilograms of coincidence came to
the family yesterday and last night.
The death had been so long expected
\ that the news had carried little shock,
but this had not served to lessen the
. grief it occasioned everywhere Judge
Faligant was known and loved.
The announcement of his death was
received by few. with more sorrow than
his old colleagues when he was in the
Legislature. Col. j H. Estill received
telegram during the day from Mr..
/ H. M. Mcintosh, editor of the Albany
Herald. who was a member of the Leg
slature with Judge Falligant, request
ing that his sympathies be extended to
the family.
Native Snvannahian.
Judge Falligant was born in Savan-
nah July IL, 1889, and at the time of
his death, therefore was nearing his six
ty-third year. He was the son of Louis
n and Eliza Raiford Falligant, his
father being then one of the leading
| merchants of the city. He came of a
distinguished ancestry. his immediate
forefathers having played q prominent
/ and romantic part in the history of the
country in which they lived. His pa
ternal grandfather, Louis Painboeuf
Falligant, was an officer in the army of
the great Napoleon, under whom he
served in many notable campaigns and
with whom he saw much active and
/ arduousf service. He was captured at
the battle of Waterloo and spent six
years, prisoner of war, in England.
His health had been undermined by
long confinement and the rigorS of
prison discipline and when he received
discharge he sailed for the coast of
Africa.
The adventurous spirit of the fam
lily was dominant in the young Of
fcer, and while making an exploration
Of that portion of the African coast
near where the vessel landed he was
captured by a band of cannibals. His
captors tied him to a tree, the fires
were lighted and the dance was begun.
| Finally he was released and was bar
tered to the captain of passing yes
sell
Louis Painboeuf Falligant came sub
sequently to this country, marrying
Miss Sarah Benedict, of Danbury,
Conn, and establishing in this city the
family of which Judge Falligant was
On his maternal side Judge Falligant
| was descended from equally gallant
stock. One of his mothers ancestors,
John Raiford, was an officer of the
Second North Carolina Regiment in the
Continental Army, and fought with
Gen. Nathaniel Greene at Guilford
Court House and in other battles of
the war in the South. Another was an
officer in the war of 1912.
From College to the Army.
Judge Falligant received his early
education in the schools of his native
city and at the Cherokee Baptist Col
iege and was student at the Uniyer-
SIty of Virginia, the most famous of
southern institutions of learning, when
the fires Of war were lighted and the
clash of arms resounded through its
academic shades. Books and the lecture
room were deserted, professors and
Students left the field of learning for
the field of strife, the martial spirit
neat fercely in every loyal breast-in
no breast more fiercely or more gal
lanlly than in that of young Falligant.
The Southern Guards, a company of
Students was organized and Bob
falligant was one of the first to step
INTO the ranks. The flower of the young
manhood of the South followed him.
with this command he participated in
.ne capture of Harpers Ferry, that
,ocok place just after the secession of
virginia. He remained with this band
gallant students until Gov. Letcher
oruered it back to the university.
NOT Tor one moment was young Fal-
nsant willing to forego the danger and
VAcltement and the possible glory of