The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-07

Orion Hotel built at a large cost.
Later he organized -th -Murehisen
Banking Company, for which a char
ter was later secured as a national
bank He was president Of the firm
OF J. W. Murchison and Company
and was connected with the Coal,
Cement and Supply Company.
Colonel Murchison's life was one OF
purity and simplicity, and he had no
liberation for anything low or debas-
ing One of his striking character
istics was his mate modesty. He
eve put himself forward, but was
always OF a retiring disposition. He
was a man of the simplest habits OF
life, always temperate, to almost to-
tai abstinence in the use Of liquor
a gentleman who knew Colonel MUIR
Gibson we'll said he would never listen
TO any story of immortality or i'm
purity, and in this particular he was
as sensitive as m He "a
always very conservative in his opin-
ion. @+&
He is survived by his wife and five
children. His children are, Mrs. James
Sprunt. of Wilmington. Mrs. Franz s.
Ellis, of Atlanta; Mrs. Shirley Carter.
of Baltimore; Mr. Kenneth NJ. Murchi-
son, Jr, of New York and Mrs. Charles
H. Hurkent, OF Fredericksburg. Va. He
also leaves a brother Mr.. ]. A. Muir
~ " II ~ IliG, anu three sister
Mrs Jackson, Of Texas; Mrs. Margaret
Mckay, OF, Harnett county, and Miss
l. g. Murchison, of Manchester. -
Colonel MurchIson. in recent years.
has spent mueh of his time with Mr..
and Mrs. James Sprunt and his pres
ence in that home will be sadly missed.
Mrs. Spunt has been i'll for several
days n up to last night she did not
know OF her fathers death. -
e Tho raVa ms uyilt laaxxn % 49, xI-f.
afternoon II wiH reach wilmington.
.onathe 10sa. m. train Monday morning.
Mr.. J. W. Murchison, the nephew of
the deceased, will leave for Richmond
this morning and will accompany the
remains from that city to Wilmington.
The; funeral will be conducted on Nom
day afternoon from the residence of
Mr.. James Sprunt. The hour at which
the funeral will be held, will be an
noupced from the pulpits of the differ
ent CHURCHES this morning. Interment
will be in the family mausoleum in
Oakdale.
RESOLUTIONS.
At a specialmeeting of the Board of
of the Murchison NATIONAL,
Bank held June 4th, 1904, the following
resolutions were adopted, and the Sec
rotary instructed to spread same upon
the minutes and furnish a copy to the
family:
The members Of this board are PAIN
ed and shocked to learn of the sudden
death of our most prominent member.
in Baltimore his morning.
We bow with. reverence to the infalli-
bic wisdom of the Almighty, yet TO
our limited human. vision. it seems an
untimely ~yisitationa
Apparently in the vigor of manhood,
intensely interested in all the affairs
pertaining to his varied and large inter-
ests, his summons comes in an hour
Of undated usefulness.
Colonel Kenneth NJ. Murchison,
whether regarded from the standpoint
of a soldier, business man, husband,
father, citizen or friend, has ever been
true and faithful to every trust.
AS a director of this bank, and one
of it's most prominent originators, in
honor of whom it was named, his name
has eve been regarded as a bulwark
of safety. and a reasonable assurance
of success, 80
AS a Colonel in the Confederate
army, he had the confidence of his SUI
periors and was always in M right
place at the right time.
AS a husband, father, and friend, he
carried his heart in his han and it re-
sponded promptly AMI literally to every
appeal.
While residing the greater part OF
the past forty years in the State OF
New York, he has been ever true and
loyal to his native state. He loved
North Carolina with the devotion of u
true son.
This immediate section and the state
of North Carolina will mourn with Us,
the loss of his truly good man and
invaluable citizen
T. v. GRANGER,
..H -r-. Secretary