The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-08-25
DEATH OF SAMUEL A. HAWKINS.
Bright Young Man Of Much Promise
PeritonitiS Set In After an Oper-
alton for Appendicitis.

Samuel Allen Hawkins died Sunday
morning at $50 o'clock in the Columbia
hospital. The immediate cause of his
death was peritonitis, which set il
! after an operation for appendicitis per
on Friday by Dr.J. G. Blood
sdsd, of John Hopkins University.
s The death was peculiarly sad and has
y cast gloom over the town of Prosper.
1sity, which was his home, and over New,
berry, where he. attended. college.
oung Mr.. Hawkins was the son of
Mr.. A. H. Hawkins, of Prosperity. He
twas an only son and an only grandson,
making the bereavement of the family
asall the harder to bear.
sN Mr.. Hawkins was a student of New
berry college and member of next
sessions senior class. He was a young
man of splendid and powerful physique,
handsome, and engaging in manners, and
was very popular among his college as
sociates and liked and esteemed by his
professors. Both at college and at
home he was admired for his splendid
qualities and loved for his sympathetic
nature and his bright and sunny dispo-
stion. He was devoted to his college,
and just before his death he requested
that his books be given to the college
library.
Mr.. Hawkins was nineteen years of
age on the 18th day of August. A
young man of splendid physique he
was in the best Of health and spirits
until taken with appendicitis on the 9th
day of this month. He attended the
college reunion at Little Mountain this
month, where he renewed the warn
friendships which existed between him
and all the students and many of the
alumni and hosts of people throughout
the county and State. Returning
home, few days later he was attacked
by appendicitis. Loving attention and
the best medical skill which the coun-
try affords were all to no avail. Drs.
j. S. Wheeler, G. Y. Hunter and j. S.
Dominick, of Prosperity, and DR..
James H. Mcintosh, of Columbia, were
given the case in charge, and DR..
Perry Nicholson, an eminent specialists
of Atlanta, was called in for consulta-
tion. On Wednesday night the physic-
ians decided that the only hope lay in
an operation, and on Thursday Mr..
Hawkins was carried to the Columbia
hospital, where he was met by DR..
Bloodgood, one Of the leading surgeons
of Johns Hopkins and of the medical
profession of America, assisted by Drs.
Mcintosh, Query and Hunter. The
operation was performed on Friday.
Peritonitis resulted and on Sunday at
$50 o'clock the end came.
The remains were brought to Pros
perity on special train over the Co.
lumbia, Newberly and Laurens road
Sunday evening, and were laid to rest
In the Prosperity cemetery yesterday
afternoon. The funeral services were
conducted at the grave by Rev. Prof.
w. K. Sigh.
The active pall-bearers we're: Geo.
w. Harmon, of Epworth; j. v. E.
Wiles, of Lone Star; E. w. Werts, C.
M. Harmon, w. w. Wheeler, and A.
Birge Wise, of Prosperity.
The bereaved parents have the deep
and heartfelt sympathy of the people
of Prosperity and Newberry and of the
whole county, and of hundreds of stu
dents and former students of Ncwberry
college throughout the State and in
other States, whose friend Mr.. Haw-
kins was, and who loved him well be-
cause they knew him we'll