Mrs. Grundy of Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 190?-1903, 1903-06-25

America. This meeting ripened into
friendship and then into love, and this
German girl, is now, and has been for
more than forty years, his devoted wife.
They were married In Mobile, Ala. and
moved to Nashville in 1888, when Mr..
Nathurst accepted employment as book
keeper for George Gregg, and was con-
tinuously In his employ until 1865, when
he moved to the mountain and located
at what is known as the Summers Place,
on the Monteagle road, fosr. miles from
Tracy City. When the Tenn. Coal Co.
took charge Of It's mines here in 1866, and
began to rebuild the property that had
been worn out and destroyed by the rava.
ges of the civil war, Mr.. Nathurst secured
a contract to supply practically all the
crossties that were used in relaying the
track from Tracy to Cowan. Before the
contract was completed he accepted ser
vice with the Tenn. Coal Co. first, us a
NitEh StoIN anu ECUtTdt boph-
keeper, which position he filed from
1868 to 1882, when he became the Super
intendent of the Tracy City Division for
the Tenn. Coal Co., and has filled this
for twenty-one years, with credit and
honor to himsslf and profit to his EN-
ployer. He can point with pride to the
fact that he has served one corporation
for more than thirty years, and at
the end of that servrce enjoys the conf
dence, respect and esteem, not only of
his employer but, also of his co-employ-
ees. His reputation for justice, fair deal
ing and intelligence is not confined to
the Tenn. Coal Co. and its EMPLOYEES.
He has always been an active leading
worker in his church, the schools, lodges
and everything else that tends to help
and advance the interests OF the people of
Tracy City and Grundy County. He has
managed with signal ability the Building
Association from its inception, and its
history shows that it has built more
homes in Tracy than all the other influ-
ences combined. 1t is but simple Justice
to say that he has done more for his fell
bowman in building and developing all
the laudable interests and enterprises in
Grundy county than any other citizen we
have. In addition to his onerous duties
as Superintendent Of this division of the
Tenn. Coal Co.'S property; he was for
years President of the only Bank in
Grundy county, at the head of the Build
ing Association, the leading member of
the Board of Trustees of the Shook
| School, the mainstay of the Masonic
Lodge, and the support of the Royal Ar
canum of which he is charter member.
Notwithstanding his various and arduous
duties OF public character, his crowning
virtue is his home and his home life. His
beautiful home has been greatly admired
for the last quarter of a century, not only
by his friends and fellow citizens, but
also by the strangers as we'll. His highly
cultivated taste for flowers has been artis-
tically displayed and h made his home
one of ideal lovliness and beauty. And
this is not his greatest attribute in home
| hfe-as a father and husband he has rore
| nearly reached the goal for which we all
aspire, than in anything else
On the first of July Mr.. Nathurst will
sever his official connection with the
company that he has served SO long, SO
faithfully and so we'll: having the proud
satisfaction of knowing that he does so
with the confidence, friendship and es.
TEEN of all the officers with whom he has
served, and also of all the men and CO.
employees with whom he has been asso.
ciated and who have served under him.