The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1905-03-10

pie, never defeated for office
unsurpassed with the juries fol
strength and influence, grew
fourished, lived and struggled
hoped and died amid the old.
| Immediately after the war be
tween the states, Col. John A
Blair came to the old from ole
Tishomingo, received all his lega
training in the conflicts and con-
tests of the new, a strong man,
learned in the law, powerful in
presenting facts, devoted to his
profession and to the interests
of his clients; impetnons, but
honorable and upright, giving
hard blows and fearing no foem-
man in the forensic war a hard
worker, a brave and chrivalrous
soldier, he left his impress with
the old. The old gave to Florida
a chief justice in the person of
Harry M. Mabry, to the lone
star state, an attorney General
in Thomas S. Smith, a district
attorney and law Professor to
Arkansas in Sam NJ. Taylor and
Frank NJ. Goar. The old took
from their swadling clothes Ed.
! L. Russell and his brother ADO
nijah j. Russell, and launched
them into broader fields of use
fulness and honor; and the elder,
princely in his cordiality to his
friends and associates, both of
the bar and at the old Verona
home, the old has followed and
watched climb to higher positions
of honor and trust in the Mobile
and Ohio Rail Road company,
and she has ever rejoiced as he
/ held on and gained more, and
now the new is ready to receive
I him into her loving embrace, and
help to speed him on to still high
er honors and loftier positions.
The younger, commonly callep
"Jud," the OLD watched with ir-
terest and loving sympathy in all
his conflicts as he moved toward
the goal; and when ever and anon
he came back to US with that
hearty hand grasp and beaming
countenance which drove trouble
and sorrow away the old felt that
she had a loving son returning
| to the old home to honor and
glorify the parents. The old
saw him advance to positions of
/ honor and trust in the rail road
company, and other positions in
our state, with Joy and gladness
And sir, when the old had decid-
ed and the people of the state
also had it IN their minds and
hearts to crown him with ad-
ditional honors, in the midst of a
flash Of glory and splendid
achievement, at the close of a
magnificent address at Oxford
before the graduating class, he
! literally wrapped the drapery
I of his couch about him and lay
down to pleasant dreams. "Jud
Russell was a magnificent man;
a magnetic fellow, strong in his
affections, strong in his purposes
strong in his hopes and strong IN
the hearts of the people. The
old gave him to the state, but
she hath received back double.
In 1856. | became acquainted
with a young man at old Rich
mond, then in ltawamba county
now in Lee, by the name of John
ID. Williams, and in those golden
DAYS in that splended old town,
sat by his side at the same school
desk for two years while we were
pursuing our studies. When the
war came, he enlisted, and served
with distinction, and was promo
ted to the position of Lient. Col;
of his regiment, was captured
at the battle of Atlanta, and held
in a northern prison till the close
of the war; and then came back
and begun the practice Of law
as a partner with me at old Full
ton. later he moved to Tupelo,
and practiced here in the old, be.
ing a sound lawyer, a man OF
few words, but one of action, cour-
teous and gentlemanly in all his
intercourse with his fellow law
vers, and when the summons
came from the old here to the
new up yonder he was a can
didate for District attorney with
fair prospects of success. He
was really a military man In
in his feelings and proclivitesl
and his mantle has fallen on his
son. who is now a Capt in the
United States army.
! Mai. Harvey C. Medford was
/ another whom the old reared and
cherished and sent home only
a few years ago. He was the
most studious lawyer the old
1 ever reared, examining all the
changes in the different codes
and statues, and noting their con-
structions by the Supreme Court,
a fine scholarly old time gentle
man, being learned in the Latin
Craak and Spanish languages. q