The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-26
EDITOR GOLSON DEAD
WELL KNOWN SELMA NEWS
PAPER MAN PASSES AWAY.
Lived in Central City Many Years
and Was at Head Of Selma
Nmes-Bayne's Res
taurant Robbed.
Advertiser Bureau,

Advertiser bureau,
Selma, Nov. rs.
At LIS o'clock this morning James e.
Golson, editor of The Morning Times.
breathed his last at his residence on Sell
ma Street. He had been in failing health
for q year past, but so accomplishing
was he that his intimate friends and
family had no idea that he was so near
the end.
Ten days ago he took to his bed and
had been in an unconscious condition
most Of the time Last Monday after
noon he rallied a little and recognized
one Of his grandchildren and made an
effort to take the little one in his arms,
but 1t was only for a few moments that
he seemed to be conscious. He gradually
grew weaker and at the hour named his
heart ceased to beat and he was dead.
Mr.. Golson was born In Autauga County
sixty-four years ago. He was a son OF
Rev. L. p. Golson, a Methodist minister,
and moved about from circuit to circuit
with his father until he was old enough
to take care of himself. He learned to
be a printer and was publishing a paper
in Clayton at the outbreak of the war.
He was exempt from the active duties
of a soldier on account of his connection
with a newspaper, but along toward the
close of the war, when men became
scarce, he laid aside his stick and pen
and shouldered a musket and saw active
service in Southeast Alabama during the
closing days of the Confederacy.
He moved to Selma in 1866 at the close
of the war and for several years was
the managing editor of The Daily Mes
senger. and was with 1t till 1t was merged
with another daily. He then embarked
in the cotton business and was one of the
finest cotton classers who ever lived In
this city. but was forced to retire from
that business on account of impaired
eyesight. He went back into the news
paper business and for the past ten or fif-
teen years had been connected with Sell
ma journalism in some capacity or an
other.
For a good many years he was connect
ed with The Selma Weekly Mirror. which
welded a wide influence. After he sold
that paper he had been connected with
The Selma Morning Times, having been
its editor for the past two and a half
years.
Mr.. Golson was a strong writer. He did
not follow, but tried to mould public
sentiment. He had ideas Of his own and
little did he care whether the rest of
the world thought as he did or not, so
he felt that he whs right He was
a man of strong likes and dislikes. He
had opinions on State and national poll
tics and never failed to express his opin-
ion. Men differed with him, but no one
doubted his honesty Those who Diff
fered with him always respected his
views He worked as an editor up to ten
days ago.
He leaves a wife and eight children.
They are: Mrs. L. ]. Colburn of Spar
tanburg. s. c.; Mrs. G ". Williamson of
Haynevilie, Ala; Mrs. D. C. Rogers and
Mrs. Albert Urquhart of Selma, and
Messrs. Lewis D. Golson of Beaumont
Tex; ]. w. Golson of Clarandon, Ark,
and G. T.k Golson and Dixon H. Golson
of Selma Besides these he leaves three
sisters. Mrs P. T. Vaughan and Mrs. T.
NJ Callen of Selma and Mrs. w. o. De
Vann of Arlington, Ala.
The funeral will take place tomorrow
| morning at II o'clock from the family
| residence on Selma Street: He affiliated
| with Central City Masonic Lodge, No
3O5, in 1866 when he came to Selma, an6
it was his desire that he be buried with
| Masonic honors.
The following Masons have been select.
| ed to act as pail bearers: Nessrs. ]. C
| Hayward. T. P. Whitby. ]. H. Nunnelee
Louis Bamberger. B. F. Toler. Nat Wal
Ter. e. s. Starr. j. C. Adler and H. L
| Shelley.
The following will be honorary pail
bearers: F. s. Kincey, r. e. L. Mel
Mayor A. L Mcleod, Daniel Partridge
Sr, w. L. Thompson, H. H. Stewart
D. A. Vaughan. C. A. McKinnon and
Horace Hood of Montgomery.