The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-19

anu VIII 5EGdLAy ODllSGu JU NUu lOl the outlines of your fathers life. The plan I intend to pursue will be simi- lar to that mentioned of Oglethorpe, which you will see in the first volume. These will form a pamphlet separate from the history of Georgia.
 Obituary.
 "EIe had kept the whitcness of his soul And thus men OCT him wept."
 Departed this life on October 12th, 1892, at his residence on St. Andrews Bay (West Florida) in the 9th year of his age, General John Clark. formerly of Georgia. On the 30th of September, while engaged In the duties of the Live oak agency he was attacked with bilious fever on St. Vincent's Island and was carried thence in a small sloop to his residence on St. Andrews Bay, where he fingered until the evening of the 18th of October, when he breathed his last. Few men have lived the life he lived. At an early period of his existence he se- lected the best of principles as his rules of action, in all the various relations of life--up to the day of his death he adhered to them with a pertinacity CO., existing with life itself During the struggles of the revolution he usually attended his father, the gallant Col. IAAlJehAA N~Aeli ACs anu peAA IlCi PsANpo NtAC many skirmishes and battles in which that active partisan engaged. At the age of 14 the subject of this notice was sent to school in Wake County. North Carolina, where he did not long remain. before a scouting party being raised to go against the Tories and Brit ish he joined them and after his return from that expedition, finding an oppor- tunity of company to the place where he left his father, he abandoned his school. He again joined his father in the ranks of his countrymen and fought under him at the first siege of Au- gusta- At tho age of Is he was ap- poitned q Major and in that capacity he commanded in 1887 under his father in the battle fought with the Indians at Jacks Creek. Those who are now in life and remember the events of that period will recognize in the name of the departed one who in the bloom of youth was the moving spirit and rallying point, at a time little less disastrous than the troubles of the revolution. He rose in rapid succession to the differ ent grades of military command, until he was elected by the Legislature of Georgia, Brigadier. and then Major General. Nor were his fellow citizens less willing to Contide to him in civil capacity those rights and privileges which he had so much and so success fully contributed to support and protect in the camp. As sheriff, and Represent ative, first in the House and then in the Senate of the State Legislature of the respectable county of Wilkes, it was his good fortune, after years of service, to give complete satisfaction to his constituents. Near the conclusion of the late war at most critical and dan ferrous time the command of all the forces destined for the protection of the State of Georgia was given to him by Governor Early. In 1S16 he was elected by the Legislature elector of President and Vice-President of the United States and was twice honored with the office of Governor of the State. Besides the foregoing he received sev- eral other appointments and commis- sions from the Legislature and Cover nor of Georgia. In 1927 he moved to Florida and sought a retreat from the cares and turmols of busy life on the secluded borders of St. Andrews Bay, where he hoped to spend the evening of a not uneventful life in the enjoy ment of domestic quiet and repose. The expenses incident to a new country soon rendered 1t necessary for him to engage in active business and the ap-
 
 Live Oak having been rendered him he accepted it and notwithstanding it's duties were arduous and attended with constant exposure, being urged to bring the business to a close, he at the most unwholesome season of the year expos ed himself to the inelemencies of the most unhealthy portion of the district. and fell a victim to the untimely hand of death and in that stroke his family has sustained a loss which no time. no circumstances can repair. As a man, citizen, and politician, honor and in- tegrity are the pillars of his fame; 1t Is as imperishable as the pillars that support it. As a husband, father and master the deep anguish of those to whom he stood in those relations be- speak his worth and their loss. As friend he was the friend of friends As a Christian, when asked if he believed in the eternal efficacy of the religion of Christ, his last audible words were, T believe" He breathed his last with out q struggle and his countenance in death bore the imprint of peace and content.
 "No further seek his merits to disclose,
 Nor draw his frailties from their
 dread abode.
 There they alike in trembling hope
 The bosom of his Father and his
 God.