The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-19
Death Comes Suddenly
to Great Private
Citizen.
ANGELS SUMMONS WAS
WITHOUT WARNING
News Of His Demise Received with
Great Sorrow.
was Feeling Better Than Usual When
He Retired Friday Night, But
Fell Back Suffering From
Heart Disease as He
Started To Arise.

Jefferson Manly Faulkner died at q
o'clock yesterday morning.
In the preesnce of mis- wife and near
kinsmen, and within sight OF that mag
nificent monument, the soldiers Home
that he had been instrumental in build
Ing as an eternal memorial of his name
and his works, he arose to enter into
his days work, and suddenly was
stricken down by a malady that almost
without moments premonition, hurtl-
ed his mortal body into everlasting
sleep and swept his soul into everlast-
ing wakefulness.
Captain Falkner's death was a sur
prise to his family. as 1t was to his
friends and acquaintances. Though he
had been ill for two years, and though
his close associates had constantly fear
ed that the end of his wonderful career
might be close, the wonderful glow of
health and spirits he had exhibited in
the past week had created the most
sanguine expectations. and when the in
teillgence of his death was received in
Montgomery yesterday morning, the en-
tire population was shocked and griev-
ed.
Only last Wednesday Captain Falkner
had been in Montgomery. He was here
to preside over a directors meeting of
the South and North Railway, of which
company he was vice president, and
his physical appearance led all his
friends to remark the Improvement Of
his general health. Captain Falkner
himself was responsive to the express
Bions of his friends upon his appearance,
and he stated that he was feeling much
better and expected to regain the fine
health that had gradually been lost to
him in the past 1.-TWO years.
OF the hours Immediately preceding
his death. there is almost nothing to
be recorded Friday night at the usual
hour ne went to bed. Just before 6
o'clock yesterday morning, he awoke,
and, saying to Mrs. Falkner that he
was going to arise, and attend to the
ordinary businesses that lay before
him, as planter. he arose to sitting
posture.
Almost Immediately he was stricken
with an attack of heart disease, a NAL
ady that had alarmed him and his
friends for many months. and he sank
down upon his bed.
Mrs. Falkner at once called other
members of the family and had a ply
stefan summoned, but within few
minutes the great man, who, without
by the gift of the people of Alabama,
yet stood pre-eminently admirable as
one who believed in and gave his life
to the people, was dead.
Sorrow I'm Montgomery.
In Montgomery the news of Captain
FaIkner's death caused universal sor-
row. The first intelligence of the fatal
sti oke was not had In Montgomery un~
til $3.50 yesterday morning, when
George w. Jones, District Attorney of
the louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company, and for years an attache of
the legal STAFF of the louisville and
Nashville as Assistant District Attorney
under Captain Falkner. received a tele-
gram from Capt. ]. w. Simpson, Com
mandant of the Soldiers Home at Noun.
tain Creek. that Captain Falkner had
founded and helped to maintain. The
first news was simply to the effect that
Captain Falkner had died suddenly.
Later 1t was learned that on Friday,
the day before his DEATH, Captain Falk-
ner had been In his garden superintend-
ing the worlR&of his laborers. and that
he seemed and said that he was in bet
ter health than he had. enjoyed for
many months. His retirement to bed
had been made in the same spirit. and
none of his household had felt any anx-
iety, until when Mrs. Falkner, alarmed
by his weakness and gasping, had call
Gu MS hiuSHen ana klnSWomen and
had ordered that a physician be sum-
moned.
But before the physician, who was
half a mile distant, arrived, Captain
Falkner without saying, anything intel
1igible. was dead.
Immediately upon receipt of news of
the death of Captain Falkner, the
matter was made known throughout
the State and the country Private
kilograms, dispatches to afternoon
newspapers and the Associated Press
announced that the great private citi-
zen, the soldier. patriot and benefactor
of all those to whom he could extend
benefits had departed life.
And in the immediate response mes
saGes of sympathy with his kinsmen
and his friends came to Montgomery
and to Mountain Creek. George w.
Jones. successor to Captain Falkner
was the recipient of a hundred or more
messages from the high officials of the
Louisville and Nashville and from at
'torneys and prominent citizens of the
South and of Alabama.
When friends in Montgomery had
communicated with members of the
family in Mountain Creek, 1t was de-
termined that the funeral would take
place at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The
services will be conducted from the
family residence at Mountain Creek.
The interment will be made at Mar
bury, where is the family buryine
ground.
Fast Train VIII be Stopped.
To attend the funeral, members OF
all the Confederate organizations will
go. 1t was proposed that the Louis
VILE and Nashville Railroad Company
should furnish special train with
free transportation to carry to Noun
tain Creek those who wished, by pay
ing formal tribute to the dead, to ex-
press their admiration and affection
for the man who in his life had done
his all towards the amelioration of the
Confederate soldiers; but in obedience
to legislation which outlawed the dona-
ton of transportation, @. w. JONES' Dis
trict Attorney for the Louisville and
Nashville said that his company was
now, an in the past. forced to stand