The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1903-01-22
EDITOR GONZALES
HAS PASSED AWAY
'he Entire South Deeply Mourns the
Lamcntable Affair.
A SKETCH OF A USEFUL. LIFE.
Hundreds Of TcIegramS OF Sympathy
Pour In From All Over til. Country
Columbia in Deep Sorrow.

+.
January II. hy James II. Tilnnan,
Lieut. n0nt Governor Of South Caro-.
ma, dird Monday at o'clock u. m.
IN" .\$%cciatc Press account ON Mun
day night said:
~" was unconscious whrn tn" end
rhMi". and ii was painless. Ills wiir.
his 'hr"" brothers. \. IT, and ". j.,
'oltZal'S. "f Thv state. and \. =.
Gonzales. Of IpluluN: his sister, Miss
Harriet K. l.. Cow HuirS. ana mrmiri,
nl the ""it"rinI %lnf Of Tilr State. and
nlS i"N"f"d %n"rpE| We" present.
Inc morning papers had informed III,
public that hop" hnd h"ru abandau".i
\ Few minutes aftpv the end came il
was 'mnWn all over Columbia. TIL,
Whn'H CITY Is deep in SORROW. There j.:
i" Arral"ni anger, no display on indi;s.
nation BAT oven 10 a STRANGER naS,. ms.
thiN'i1n IN" city. fhn unnaiuraI u;;iri
at = tim" when he prCsracn of -.
legislature 2n! ihr naW2,ra, ~ =
huhh'r 0r administration officials
"hnu'H mnN" il more than u,ii,,ualIv
ah'Mau'l. WDUlh r. nuticcablr. on
III" streets The pcuplc tall; in hush-G
l"i''H "i IL" great calanilv ana IL
'h' universal. silent uNpr .;iiun of %or-
row, @ii "ihrr emotions #u"m to yg
lost.
Sketch OF tliS Life.
TN" t"lirWinG sketch Of his life Is
appealed:
NHrc;S;n G"ucI Gonzales was ,jGrn
august :. '$IS. Nu EdiSto island. His
lath"r MAS G,n. AnbrOsiu los" Con
%al"S, Il tHHan patriot. who. in 1850.
hcram" "n "N!!" from his native land
ana settled in Colirton county. 5. c..
where he married Miss Harriet RI
the original landgravcs or harHa% D'
colonial Carolina. and was alSr II de-
Srendant of Governor Smith, the frs;
Governor Of the STATE"
Grn. Gonzales was one of tn" five
members of the original Cuban junta.
VINO declared tho Independence OF the
island. adopted the present Cuban flag
ana organized tbs. first iiibustcring
expedition. Ike Was second in command
under Gen. NarciO Lopez and ranked
as brigadicr general. Gonzales vas
the first Cuban wounded in battle for
the independence OF the island at
Carlcnas in 1880. He WAS cxiled under
sentence Of death. Gen. Gonzales was
Slrikingly like Gen. Bcaurcgard. with
whom he served at chief OF artillery
FOR South Carolina, Georgia and I'l0r-
ida. lic served through the entire war
as colonel OF artillery ever rendering
chat branch OF JohnSton'S army at
Greensboro.
The family being ruined by the war.
y. &. Gonzales received no education
except the careful training OF his
mother. nobl, oman. The St0icism
and fortitudc with which Mrs. GCnZa-
les suffered the shock Of the wound
ANA tn" operation was evidenced when
Il" WAS child four years old. Ills
Il q ~ ~
comfy while Beaufort county was IL
possession Ot the Federal troops. One
day her dress caught fire. The baby
boy in his devotion to the mother
whom he worshipcu, smothcrcd the
flames. saving his mothers life. hut
burning fcarfully his tiny hands. He
save no evidence OF pain until her
needs had been attended to. 1t was
her careful training which developed
in him StudiouS traits which charac-
terizcd his after life and though in
later years regarded by some as a
stern and critical editorial writer. he
would to his friend sometimes repeat
tender bits diverse committed to mem
Ory in childhood.
After the war he began life as a la ,
horcr on farm in Virginia. Aft"re
wards he worked on the family home
stead plantation in ColletOn county. In
1879 he studied telegraphy and VAS
ION rnn,t, V,"n,.;i,n a'""n r., ,oHc ~ ,'"'iip
'',, ~ ~ NV !" '''' he VI
Col!cton county. ana was campaiun
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Wn,,, "',,'n ,I '.'ti''i i!'hs" thc caas" on
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