The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-12-10
CAPT. EGGLESTON
GOES TO REWARD
COUNTY'S POPULAR EX-SHERIFF
PASSED AWAY At HIS HOME
NEAR COLUMBUS LAST
TUESDAY NIGHT.
Had Been Ill for Some Time. and
Pneumonia Finally Developed,
Funeral Took Place on
Thursday Afternoon.

News OF the death of Capt Theo-
dore A. Eggleston, which occurred at
his country home. two miles east of
this city, at seven o'clock last Tues
out the county with feelings of gen
uine sorrow and sincere regret. Cap
tain Eggleston was a man who made
| friends readily, his genial nature and
noble heart having drawn men to
him, and there are in Columbus and
Lowndes county hundreds of citizens
who feel personal loss in his death.
realizing that a friend who could
always be relied upon for aid and
sympathy in time of distress is now
beyond their call.
! For nearly year past Capt. Eg-
gleston had been in feeble health.
When he retired from the sheriffs
Office in January last he was by no
but when he relinquished the Office
and retired to his coy country home
his friends hoped that the active life
of the farm would prove beneficial
and his accustomed vigor would re-
turn. This hope, however, proved
vain one, for, instead of improving
Capt. Eggleston's health grew worse,
and the best care and attention failed
TO check his steady decline. He suf-
fered from a complication of diseases,
1. ~.
causing pneumonia to develop. This
was the beginning of the end. He
grew gradually worse, and Tuesday
night he passed over the silent river
TO the happy land beyond, where
there is no sorrow and where pain
and suffering are unknown.
Capt Eggleston was a native of
Lowndes county, having been born
on a plantation near this city sixty
six years ago. He was nothing but
boy at the outbreak of the civil
war, having been attending school at
the time, but fired with patriotism
and a desire to defend his country
he went TO the front, and fought gall
AeAIAy ~AC D4AACA
gle Most of Capt Eggleston's life
was spent in Lowndes county, and
her citizens have several times hon
ored him with Official positions OF
honor and trust He was for several
years chief of the Columbus police
force, was later deputy sheriff and
then sheriff, having completed a four
year term in the latter Office last
January.
Deceased is survived by widow.
one SON, Mr. T. A Eggleston, Jr.,
manager of the City Furniture Com
pany; two daughters, Mrs. Q. c.
Jones, of Kansas City, who came
here for the funeral, and a little girl
only few years old, who resides
with the family at their home near
this city. The Dispatch joins the
numerous friends of the bereaved
family in extending sympathy and
coincidence in the profound grief
which Capt. Eggleston's death has
entailed.
Capt. Eggleston was a member of
Columbus Lodge No. 5, A. F. and A.
NJ, and the funeral, which occurred
at the First Methodist church at two
o'clock Thursday afternoon, was con-
Quoted with Masonic honors. Rev.
W. A. Hewitt, pastor of the First
Baptist church, conducted the obse-
quies, and the honorary pail bearers
were Col. w. D. Humphreys, Sheriff
w. d. Prowell. Col. c. L. Lincoln,
Messrs. r. T. Williams, J. S. Robert
son. D. r. Clary, r. ]. Gunter and
=. M. Street, while Hon. Battle Bell,
Col. Walter Weaver, Hon. B. a. Wea-
yer, Capt. E. S. Donnell, Messrs. II.
C. vandiver, j. r. Childers, James
Newly and D. D. Richards oficiated
as active pail bearers.