The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-09-03

Fabius H. Busbee Dead.
End Came in Seattle, Wash
ington, Where He was At
tending Meeting Of Amer
can Bar Association, Friday
Night After a Weeks Illness

can Bar Association, IlOdy
Night After Weeks Illness
Seattle, Wash, Aug 2S.-After an
illness OF six days, Fabius Haywood
Busbee, a prominent lawyer, OF Raj
eich. n. G.. who was in Seattle to at
tend the convention OF the American
Bar Association, of which he was a
member of the general council, died
of Bright's disease at the Minor Hos
pital tonight Mr.. Busbee was 90
years old. He was admitted to the
bar of North Carolina in 1869. Dur
ing the civil war he was II lieutenant
in the Seventy-first North Carolina
Infantry.
For wears Mr. Busbee had attend
ed the conventions OF the American
Bar Association and he was one OF
the best known and most popular
members of the association.
Mr.. Busbee arrived i'll Seattle last
Sunday after a stop OF several days
in Yellowstone Park, where he took
cold. Every possible attention was
niven him, but his wearisOme trip
and the cold had weakened his vitality
and he succumbed to the ravages OF
the disease from which he had been a
sufferer fora number OF years.
Mr.. Fabius Haywood Busbee was
born in Raleigh March 4. 1S4S. He
was a son of Mr.. Perrin Busbee. His
mother, before her marriage, was
Miss Anne Taylor. He was educated
at Lovejoy's Academy, the Univer-
sity of North Carolina, Princeton
University and Trinity College.
Mr.. Busbee was married twice. His
first wife was a Miss Annie Mckes-
son of MorgantOn. whom he married
in 1870. She lived but a few years,
and in 1877, he was married to Miss
Sallia H. Smith, of Scotland Neck,
who survives him.
Beside his wife Mr.. Busbee is also
survived by five children, two by his
first wife, Mrs. Margaret Busbee
Shipp, the widow of the late Lieuten-
ant Shipp, who was killed during the
Spanish American war in Cuba, and
Mrs Robert Thompson, OF Spray.
By his second union three children
survive. Mr.. Richard s. Busbee, of
| Charlotte: Mrs. 4. $. PendletOn, OF
Henderson, and Mr. Phillip II. Bus
bee, who was associated with his
father in the practice Oflaw. He also
leaves one brother, Hon. Charles
Manley Busbee, of the Raleigh bar.
! Mr.. Busbee was one of the leading
ATTORNEYS of the State He was adj
mitted to the bar in 1889.
During the civil war he was lieu
tenant in the Seventy-tirst North
Carolina troops, enlisting in 1860.
In 1877 he was presidential electOr-
at-large; from 1885 to 1889. district
attorney, and several times delegate
to national Democratic conventions.
For more than twenty-five years he
was a trustee Ofathe University OF
| North Carolina. He was a member
of the American Bar AssOcia ton,
the North Carolina Bar Association,
and a delegate to the Universal Con-
gress of Lawyers and Jurists, at st.
| Louis, in 1904. He was grand mas
ter of the Masons of North Carolina.
He was the author of Il Well-knOwn
law book, "Busbee's Criminal Di-
gest.'
Mr. Busbee was a man of fine sense,
affability and popularity. The news
of his death will come as a shock to
his host of friends in the State.
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