The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-23
TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI FRIDAY FEBRUARY %. 1906
pEN.plCTUREs OF THE OLDEN Time
1Y COL w [. CLAYTON.

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Office. and whatever else office
would enable them to get. But
few counties in the state were
blessed If that's the proper
word with as harmless Repub-
lican leaders as old Itawamba in
the days of carpetbagism.
know less Of DR.. C. Hnssey
than eff DR.. Elliott, that is was
not as much about his home, and
saw less Of his home life than of
DR.. Elliott. He was as fine look
ing young man, as ever remem-
Der to have seen, and was forg-
ing rapidly to the front in his
profession, when he married a
Miss Marsh, who was considered
rich, and who owned a fine plan
tation on Bogefalah, well stocked
with negroes, and so the doctor
quit the practice of medicine and
devoted his whole time to his
farming interests. He not only
conserved what his wife had,
but by economy and intelligent
management added much to it,
so that when the war came he
was considered the wealthiest
man in Itawamba county. But
when the war closed he was the
owner only of his lands and
stock. But he was a man of in
domitable energy and push, and
so he again started out as though
beginning anew. But the system
of farming and advancing to ten
ants and croppers was such that
within a few years after the war
he was in debt to a greater
amount than his property was
worth, lands having declined so
that there was little market for
them, and especially in large
bodies like that owned by DR..
Hussey. He had been compelled
to call on his merchants for ad-
vancements, being without the
means to do it himself, and fall
ling behind from year to year,
and his tenants and share work
ers not only falling behind with
him, but moving off his place and
never paying, nothing less than
a gold mine would have paid it if
he had not called a halt. DR..
Hussey became very much dis
couraged over the matter, and at
one time was inclined to surren-
der everything to his creditors
and begin anew, and made that
proposition to Col. Clark, but the
colonel was very fond Of the doc
tor and persuaded him to hold on
and pay it out and retain his
property. This was in the early
seventies, and the doctor took
Col. Clark's advice, and in a Sc
ries of years paid everything, ad-
ded other tracts Of land to the
old home until he possessed one
of the finest bodies of land in the
county. DR.. Hussey was a busi-
ness man strictly. When he came
to town it was not for pleasure,
but business. He often came in
my office on business, as | did
all his legal business, and could
never induce him to remain a
moment after his business was
transacted, and another thug !
can say for him, you never had
to repeat anything to him to get
him to understand it, but when
you got through with the expla-
nation of the legal proposition,
he had it in his mind and ready
to go. Think that he was the
smoothest man to do business
with that I have ever known. He
was a perfect Chesterfield in his
manners, without any show or eff
fort. Always self possessed, very
intelligent, ever attentive, no
man could deal with anyone more
pleasantly. He was as straight
as an arrow, and in his young
days as 1.-THE as an athlete. He
was a figure that will be long
remembered on old Bogefalah.
The doctor also had a brother
named Josiah, but whom we al