The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
E. F. BABER IS DEAD
WE'LL KNOWN ALABAMfAN DIES
 IN HOSPITAL.
Was Frenineaf Minister In Baptist Churef, Veteran of the Confed- eraey. and Editor of Various
 Newspapers i'm State.

With the death of Rev. E. T. BaAer at St. Margaret's Hospital at o'clock yesterday afternoon. Alabama loses one of her pioneer citizens. business man of unimpeaehabie character and sterling worth and Christian gentle man.
 As the editor for a number of years of The Alabama Baptist. the ofIcial organ of the Baptist Church in Ala hama. and iafev of The Dothan Home Journal. weekly publication of wide circulation and influence. and as a Baptfat minister of more than local repute, Mir. Baber was known through out the State
 4 veteran of tho war between the states. prominently Identified in many of fhs movements for the betterment of conditions in affairs of church. as minister and of State. as the Editer of Alabama newspapers. he spent long. useful and active life As the Confederate veteran. as editor and as minister. he was equally well known respected and beloved
 Engenius F Baber was born at Gov ington. Newton county. Georgia, March 20. 1s37 When nine years of age he came to Alabama with his parents, settling in Macon county.
 At the outbreak nf the war between the States. he was publishing a news paper at Tuskegee. He joined the Third Alabama Regiment as a member of the Tuskegee Light Infantry. While serv- ing with his regiment he was in the battles of Drurys Bluff, Cold Harbor, Seven Pines and Malvern Hill. During the engaFeent at Malvern Hill, he was struck several times and so severely wounded that he was furloughed home.
 When sufficiently Fecovered to re- sume active service, he was commis- stoned as Captain. raised company and was assigned to the Sixty-First Alabama Regiment. With the sixty first he served in Alabama, Mississip- pi. and Virginia. until the winter of .i864-6s, when on account of i'll health, he was ordered to Alabama and placed In command of the Troy Military Dis trict At the close of the war, ne was stationed at Selma.
 Directly after the war. he entered newspaper work in Montgomery, and later became editor of The Greenville Advocate. In 1873. he was ordained minister in the Baptist church, and until 1893 he was active in the work of the Baptist church in the State.
 In 1893, he accepted the editorship of The Alabama Ba3tist. the official organ of the Baptist church in the State. In 1900. he purchased Ine Dothan Home Journal, which he de- ve1oped into the largest ana most m fuential paper in Southeast Alabama.
 Tn March of this year, he was strick- en with heart trouble and Brights disease. As soon as he was able 10 travel he came to Montgomery. to the hone Of his son. E. F. Baber. Jr', where everything that love and science could suggest was done to make him comfortable and to prolong nis ire
 Twice was MT. Baber married. HIS ars+ wife was a Miss Lanier of Macon county, who died. leaving no children. Tn 1878. he married Miss Mary Rives' of Colirene Lownaea county. Ms. Raber died two years ago. MT. Baoer is survived by three children, two sons, E P Baber. Jr.. City Recorder; and Cleveland Baber. an emplcye or Ine Advertiser. of Montgomery. and one dauehter. Mrs. J w. Grant of Dothan
 The funeral services will be held this afternoon at o'clock at the res. idenee of F. F. Baber, Jr.' 10 Hoieoinoe os street, Interment will be made al na Lxwnad Cemetery.