The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-02
Popular Montgomerian
and Prominent
Lawyer.
SORROW IN THE CITY
He Filled Many Places Of
Public Trust.
HAD Bees Mayor Of Capital City and
was Active and Useful in Every
Walk Of Life-Funeral This
Afternoon.

Captain Edward A. Graham died yes
terday morning at 1925 o'clock at his
home 726 South Court Street.
Surrounded by his loved ones the end
came quietly and peacefully. With no
struggle Of pain and suffering the great
heart was stilled and the eyes closed in
eternal rest and sleep. 1t was no sud
den summons of death that came to
him in the noontide OF his strength and
manhood. The shadow of death had
been upon him for weeks, perhaps
months. He knew 1t but the knowl-
edge brought no fear. Courage and
teristics Of Captain Graham and they
remained with him to the end.
The sadness of the call in the me-
ridian Of his life. call he knew TO be
inevitable, did not overwhelm him with
the grief and sorrow that 1t brought
to his friends. His thoughts through
out his last days were for his loved
ones, and there was work for them for
him to do before the night came. And
even when he had set his house in or
der. the strong, gentle spirit fingered.
It was as If this strong spirit came
to the brink and hesitated loath to
leave the loved and loving friends that
peopled the old familiar. affectionate
scenes. II was as If the tender spirit
hesitated to take flight, not in fear of
what was beyond the grave, but in sor-
row that tender. clinging ties were to
he sundered
AS he had lived he went to his death
with an mistaken faith in the Heaven
ly Father. His daily walk in life an
unostentatious effort to emulate the
earthly life of the divine Son. in itself
gave him strength and sustenance for
the last days of sorrow and sadness.
For many years he was a faithful and
consistent member of the First Pres
byterian Church and his aid and coun-
sci will be missed in the life OF the
church as his absence will be felt In so
many other fields of work and en-
deavor.
Great Void in Montgomery.
Just how great void in Montgom-
ery's life came when Edward A. Ora
ham answered the final summons may
not be told now. There has been in
recent years hardly a movement for
progress, hardly an effort for public
betterment that has not felt the i'm
petus of his gifts and talents. The
record of the public Offices that he has
filled does not compass the accomplish
ments OF his active life. nor does such
a record convey an adequate idea OF
the esteem and love in which he was
held by his people. In all his life
Captain Graham was never refused any
thing by the people of the city of
Montgomery nor the people of the
County of Montgomery. He filled many
public Offices. They came to him as
the generous gifts of his people and
that the list is not longer is due to
Captain Graham's love for private life
and not to the unwillingness of his
people to bestow other gifts.
Probably those that were near to
him feel a deeper pride in his private
life than in his public service. as hon
orable and distinguished as 1t was.
It is given to few men to. fill the
place in a city's life that Captain Ora
ham filled in Montgomery. Few men
have welded the influence that came
to HIM as the fruits Of strong and
upright life. How many a man. how
many a family have been deprived of
the counsels OF a trusted adviser may
not be estimated.
Not the least notable OF the many
generous gifts with which nature had
endowed him was his remarkable fac
ulty of drawing people to him. The
memory of how men were brought to
lean upon him and trust him to the end
will endure for many years. OF him II
might be said he loved his fellow men.
His frankness and his strength were
irresistible. without effort he won
confidence and grappled men to his soul
with hooks of steel.
The clean and honorable life he led.
his fairness and his justice are not to
be forgotten. He stopped to no mean
ness and hatred had no part in his ma
ture.
Suffered With Insidious Disease.
Captain Graham was but So years old.
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as bright with promise as the past had
been in accomplishments. The insid-
ious disease of leucamia settled upon
him and he grew slowly but steadily
weaker. Friends on the streets of
Montgomery noticed as he gave them
the CHEEKY, courtly greeting that char
acterized him, that ne grew paler day
by day and that the alert figure moved
with less of it's strength and ease.
His last public appearance was as
delegate from the County of Montgom-
cry to the State Democratic Convention
May 25. 1t was forced home to his
friends then that he was an i'll man.
A short while afterwards II was an
nounced that Captain Graham had gone
to Stafford Springs, Miss, for his
health. The trip was not a beneficial
one. He grew worse upon his arrival
there and was forced to take his bed.
The hope for improvement never came.
He was brought home. 1t was a sad
homecoming. The news was whis-
pered among his friends that he had
come home to die among his loved ones.
The wide circle OF friends that eagerly,
throughout e~~h day, sought some
word of encouragement from the
stricken home were destined to hear
no news of hope and encouragement.
Captain Graham is survived by his
wife. the sharer of his success and
honors for over a quarter of a century.
She was before her marriage to Cap
tain Graham in 1876, Miss g. c. Thorn
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