The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1903-04-30

LAST Friday night, al an unknown
hour, Death, with silent coming. claimed
and took away nan who will be long
mourr-d by the living W
This was Mr.. wilMurdoch, who was
fJuad, 10 the eAtiy uio,n, dead In his
bed Al his home in Madison Parish, La
Mr. Murdoch had been for some months
in poor health; but the sudden fatal
termination Of his sickness was so unex
pecied that it proved great shock to
the members OF his family and his
fr'rnls. t. heir heavy sorrow the poor
CONSOLATION remains that his silent pass
;ng avn, In The hours Of the night WAS
probably wiihout suffering. II was as II
one over weary had fallen quietly a.
sleep aud fonnd welcome rest.
Mr.. William Bristol Murdoch was born
al Cane Mouni" in Claiborne county.
Miss, shout the year I845. His father
was Mr.. John Murdoch oi Mississippi,
aud his mother was formerly Miss Bris
tol OF New Haven, Connecticut. His
early hoyhood va passed At "cane-
Mount" one of the old Mississippi
homes famed for the culture aud refine
meni Of rs inmates, its Injurious sur
rouudings and its unlimited hospitality.
After course at Yale College he was
taken theuce by his father directly to
Europe where he remained in almost
constant companionshiD With that par
ent until the commencement Of our Civ
"a War.
Young Murdoch Joined the confeder-
ate Army two or three years before at
tanning his majority, and there served
with distinction on the staff Of Gen.
Hebert Of Louisiana, in the Trans
Mississippi department. After the W ',
aud up TO the time Of his death
he ives engaged IN planting in Louis
lana, and quite largely Ia the melcan.
tile business in Mississippi.
He leaves a widow TO mourn his
death, aud an equally well and iavora-
bly, known brother, MT. John Murdoch
Of s.Cane. Mount" while among his
nearest relatives are members OF the
Perkins family, now residing 10 Eng
land, and formerly prominent in Mis-.
sissippi and Louisiana, and the Buffers
Of sGleusade' in this county.
As an object lesson TO that large fa-
uaiical element In the North whose
hearts are ever fred over alleged South
ern racial wrongs the life and death Of
this scion Of the old slave-holding aris-
tocracy Of this section Hiight prove of
benefit For years, the hundreds Of ne
groes Who have been beneficiaries Of his
charity, Of his kindly counsel. aud more
often Of bis firm guidance, have held
for him friendship amounting to devo-
iional faith and numbers of them fol-
lowed him afar from the old plantation
to see him laid in bis last resting place
beneath the cedars Of our beautiful Port
Gibson Cemetery.
Desth, in taking him, has broken one
more OF the bright links connecting the
South with that splendid epoch in lie
social history which it hopelessly be-
holds drifting off into the irrevocable
Past. 1t has siilled the hand and de-
stroyed the mind which was helping
and leading his fellowmen to follow all
the duties and requirements Of the prsc-
tical Present. Il has taken from his
people a friend it has called to his
forefalhers as fine a gentleman as any
of their old line; and, just as, down 10
our great Southern City, the hearts Of
our people are about TO lhrob with the
drum-bests that will marshal in 6Dal
grand review the surviving veterans OF
our Southern Army, it has summoned TO
its own silent bivouac agsllant cOnfed
crate Soldier. -.