The Tupelo journal., 1905-01-13

soA0~y pAVoOu0 ~ eAV ANAASu
heart. In recognition Of this fact,
the family have entrusted to me
the very sad duty and responsible
ity of paying this final tribute to the
memory Of my deceased brother.in-
law, Samuel Levi Hoyle.
Sam Hoyle, sen Of Andrew Jack
son and Sarah Elizabeth Hoyle,
was born August 31st, 1872 and
died November 9th, 1904. About
8 years ago he was married to Miss
Alice Kingsley. She and four
small children are deprived Of his
love and protecting care. Besides
these Sam Hoyle leves behind him
his mother, a brother, John, q sin
gle sister, Maria, q married sister,
Mrs. I. O. Mabry.
When the subject of this sketch
was about IL years Of age his "a
Their died, leaving five young chill
dren. Thus at the time when
most needed, perhaps this young
boy was deprived Of a fathers
care, protection and direction: and
from about this time he began
largely to make his living. He
developed into an Industrious,
hard working man, who provided
we'll for his family, to which he
was DEVOTED. He was a man
whose very face showed determi-
nation and strength of character.
Loyal at all times to his friends.
Sam Hoyle was naturally popular
with his associates and held by
them in high esteem. He was
a gentleman, of high ideals and
he looked down with scorn and
contempt upon anything mean and
base in principle. High-mlnded
himself he w~as:quick to resent an
insult /; and this characteristic &C.
counts for his having been slain
while yet in early manhood.
He joined the Methodist Church
at Palmetto several years age, and
we hope that he was a christian,
though he was not an active chris
tian worker. He had his faults;
we all have them; but when he
had done wrong no one could have
regetted it more than Sam Hoyle.
He was brave and fearless to a
fault, yet with his family as affec-
tionate as a woman. Only a few
days before his death he was at
Houston and while there atten ded
the burial of a lady; and while
holding up a little child to look at
her deaed mother in the coffin Sam
caied as though his own heart
would break and said that he
hoped his own little children would
never be- left that way, poor boy!
little did he realize that in a few
short days his own fatherless chill
dren would be crying in vain for
"papa", and wanting to know
whether papa is coming tomor'
row",or. whether "we may not 60
homo to papa. What a trial it
must be to his own "Sweet Allie"
to have to tell the little ones "we
have no home we have no papa!
Only two words are known to
have escaped his lips after that
cruel bullet entered his brain about
IL p. m. November 9th. These
were "John", the name.of his only
hroher, and "Allie", tho name of
his wife. Undoubtedly ne realized
that the end was near, and he was
thinking of his own family and of
his mothers family, and wished
to leave some Anal instructions
looking to their comfort. But tho
end came only too soon. l would
not be unjust as to charge God
with the DEVILS work in bringing
this bereavement upon tho Hoyle
families. any more than l would
charge Him with Abel's death
For his untimely end one G. G..
Jolly, a constable and night
watchman at Okolona, Mississippi y
sworn officer Of the law must soon
swer before The Courts If Miss
issippl, and sooner Of later before
the Judgment bar Of God. Let us
not, therefore, PREJUDICE Sam
Royle's slayer. Before the for
ner tribunal we demand Justice,
before the latter let us rather pray
.sE,.La. forc;va him For no kuaw