The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-07-24
DR.. Il. N. sHERRILL.

and medical practitioners III TINS
section of West Tennessee, d12d at
aats home in this city last Saturday
rrrorning of organic heart trouo'e'
Or. Sheriff. would have been, had
de lived till August 7, 90 years OF
.aoe. He was a native of Wilson
county, and reared on farm near
v;llaoe called The Glade. At the
age of q years he moved to Hen
.derson in West Tennessee and
there he was married in 1865 to the
a-omnanion who survives him, Miss
Mary Hardy, daughter OF Col. Jas.
Hardy.
1T was in Henderson he studied
medicine, and from thence to the
University of Nashville, where he
completed his college course in that
famous old institution. There, also,
was the birthplace and boyhood OF
his four sons, now stalwart, sue
.cessful young men. These are
Messrs. Algie Sheriff., Hattles-
burg, Miss; Clarence and Virgil,
Paducah, and DR.. Joe J. Sheriff.
Chicago,
In 1887 the family came to Union
CITY, and it is here that they be-
came thoroughly identified with the
life and progress of our best lnst1-
mutions--church, school, business
enterprises and social welfare.
The Doctor was tor forty years
am intelligent believer of the Chris
pean religion and a member OF the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
NE was also a Royal Arch Mason
and prominent in all the medical
....auucils of the local fraternity.
His service in the cause of the
@-onfederacy would fill an interest
Jug compendium. Some OF these
facts are from a comrade in arms.
DIR. Sheriff. volunteered with the
~oung men of the neighborhood
near Henderson in Company T.
Sixth Tennessee Regiment OF In
fautry w. w. Freeing, Captain
He was elected Orderly Sergeant
IN the organization of the company
and was promoted to Lieutenant
which position he held until the re-
organization after the battle OF
Shiloh. After that time he was
commissioned to raise company OF
scouts. In this capacity he did val
liant service, capturing many prls-
oners in West Tennessee and carry
ing them through the lines South
His record through the war was
characterized with valor and his
friendship as comrade one OF the
marks of his career. He did much
practice as a physician among the
soldiers, and the memory OF his
kindness still fingers with many OF
che old comrades.
DR.. Sheriff. was man IN the
broad sense of the term. His IN
tellect was of the type OF great
minds. His comprehension reached
Gar beyond the limits of a narrow
sect or creed, and, though loyal to
his organizations and all accompa'
xaving enterprises, his views were
advanced along the more liberal
lines of the age. His teacher was
the Giver of Life and Truth anc
alis philosophy sound and prac
cal. Charity predominated in his
nature, and the GROWING virtue o
his life was his devotion to the fire
side of his home and the council o
his friends.
He lived to see the growth an
development of his four sons int
men of strength and character, VIII
strove to make return OF his pa
rental care and kindness in man
pleasant and substantial ways. hi
companion, the joy and comfort
mis- home, the sweet-spiritef
worthy, loving helpmeet an
salnted mother, standing by hil
lovingly and faithfully through a
the vicissitudes of these years, d
only woman can, was at his pi
low as life ebbed peacefully out,
scene witnessing the severing of
tie too sacred for word or sign, pr
sfoundly suggesting the reverend
of bowling heads
Thus again is illustrated the d
vine decree aud the immovable la
of Almighty Power, the seperatio
of the soul and the body. In Il
eternal plans will come the witnes