The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-12
SMILES AT DEATH
S. l.. CAMPBELL WAS CALM TO THE
 END.
Montgomerian Passes Away Surrounded by Family and Friends After Short Illness-FuneraI Takes
 Place Today i'm Oakw0Od.

Surrounded by those whom he loved best, calm and smiling in spite of the most intense and agonizlng suffering, Charles L. Campbell died at hIs home on South McDonough Street yesterday morning at o'clock.
 Throughout the last hours of his life, while in the throes of a death agony, he made no sign. no complaint, but with a calmness almost divine, with smiles that made radiant his face, he talked to those about him.
 Naturally one of the most modest and retiring of men. almost womanly in his sensitiveness, when he realized the hand of death was lad upon him, 1t was then the bravery of the man shone out. It was then he showed to those about him that Tt Is not all of death to die" In his every word to the heartbrcken wife, to the little boys and to the friends and dear ones gath cred about him, in the brave fight which he made for his life. he proved the glory of the death of him who dies in the Lord"
 | Conscious to the last moment, and never free for a second from excru- ciating agony. he talked quietly and calmly He set his house in order. He begged his wife not to worry. He spoke to her words of counsel, words of encoura cement. words that will cheer her through the dark hours which | he realized in his going would be her 1 part.
 Several times during those hours. when life hung on a slender thread, and when those about him knew the | end was near. when some little light broke through the dark wave of suf- fering ns it passed over him, no doubt mistaken by him for hope of respite he looked up smiling into the face of his wife. and said:
 Don't worry: perhaps I may yet be spared to you few years more" " No man ever fought a braVer fight. and no man ever went to his reward with a more beautiful resignation.
 Just eleven years ago today, with his bride Miss Myrtle Booth. leaning on his arm. Charles L. Campbell walked proudly up the aisle of the First Pres byterian Church, and there before the altar, where today will be placed the casket holding all that Is mortal oe bim, he stood and took the marriage vow. Eleven years of life and love and happiness have passed: eleven years in which he lived for the wife and the two little sons with which their union had been blessed discharging his duty to his fellow man. And even as he lived, SO did he die.
 Charles Lawton Campbell was born in New Orleans, January 25, 1869. He was the son of Charles Lawton Camp bell and Annie Mitchell Campbell. He numbered among his connections some of the most prominent people of both the North and the South. His mother died about seven years ago.
 For fifteen years he held responsi- ble position in the office of the Unltet States Engineer. and about year agc went into business for himself, He wa A member of the local lodge Order of Elks and of the local branch of the Beavers. He was one Of the leading spirits in the life of the orders te which he belonged. So active and so interested was he in all that made for the best of these orders, that when 1t became known that he was dead, 1t was said by those who knew him best, 'he will be sorely missed"
 MT. Campbell was sick only a few days He was taken i'll last Friday with acute indigestion. which rapidly developed into peritonitis.
 He is survived by his wife and two little sons. Charles L and Henry Booth. and by his father, Charles L. Camp
 bell
 The funeral will take place this af
 ternoon at 5:30 o'clock at the First
 Presbyterian Church, of which he wa
 a member. and will be conducted by
 Dr. Neal L. Anderson, pastor of the l Central Presbyterian Church. A large