The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-15
Tribute Of Respect.

AOoAS VI SpS
The committee appointed by Green
wood Lodge No. 1876, F. & A. NJ, to
draft resolutions on the death of DR..
n. E. Whitehead, submits the follow
ing:
The grim reaper has called from
labor to refreshment our brother
Nathan Elisha Whitehead, a Mason
who had investigated with are the
fundamental principles pom which
the laws, usages and customs Of
Masonry are based. High and lofty ia
his conception of our order and clear
in his convictions as to its destiny and
the mission it has in the world, he
eve held it up as a thing too sacred
for profane and common uses. He had
fathOmed it to its bottom and had
faith and trust in it and that faith and
trust had uncovered to him the good,
the beautiful and the true in it.
Born at his fathers plantation home
in Madison County, Mississippi, Dec.
%, 1910, he grew to manhOOd's estate
under the mellowing influences of the
old regime. When wars alarms were
sounded he heard it il a far away
northern city where he was preparing
himself for that useful profession
which he afterwards for so long a time
adorned, and he Immediately returned
to where he thought his duty called.
To his beloved southland where amidst
the carnage Of battle he ministered to
the wants of the suffering and bound
up the wounds of the injured who
came under his care during that
mighty conflict.
Locating in Lexington Mississippi,
after peace had spread her wings over
our country, he was raised to the
sublime degree of a Master Mason Feb.
1, 1868. In 1871 he was elected Master
and held hat office for two terms.
Exalted to the august degree Of Royal
Arch Mason on July IA, 1870, a select
Master of the Council Dec. 4, 1872, he
was Knighted on March IS, 1871 and
elected Eminent Commander Dec. %,
1878, and held that position for two
terms. He affiliated with this lodge
in 1887. In 1902 with the yea yer
characteristic with him he was mainly
instrumental in having a C~ommandery
organized here and was elected Emf
nent Commander a position he had
held in another COmmandery thirty
Years before. In the same year he took
the Shriners degrees at Meridian.
Thus it is seen that so imbued was he
with the good in Masonry that he had
every degree conferred on him obtain
able.
Our beloved frater had passed
through the s~pringtime and summer Of
life and has fallen with the autumn
leaves to hat repOse which M
from a long and useful life. Life is
made up of little things-Of widows
mites. There is not much that any of
us can do in the brief space allotted to
us to toll in earth's quarries and form
the characters we shall wear forever
in the Paradise of God. But let the
little we can do be for good-be upon
the side of the wronged, the oppressed
and downtrOdden, the weak and help
less. Let us build the temple, beauti-
flying and adjoining it with the rarest
of gems and most precious of metals.
Let the fires upon its alter burn as
bright as the monday sun that when
we part upon the square we may Sc
cure the whit stone with a new name
written which shall ensure us an en-
trance into the heavenly temple of our
God. Let us mingle our tears with
those nearest to Him whose shield and
sword he was and let us mourn the loss
of a brother Mason who always strove
to elevate Masonry.
d. S. HUMPHREYS
J. w. HICKS
w. A. GILLESPIE
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