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FALLEN ASLEEP
DR.. Jas. H. Carlisle Passed Away at
S~yatanburg Thursday Morning
FUNERAL HELD FRIDAY

Full of Years and of Honors' soutn
Cardinals Grand Old Man Lays
Down His Burden and Enters
Upon a Higher Life in the Heaven
ly Land.
DR.. James Henry Carlisle died
at 7:45 o'clock Thursday morning
at his home on Wofford College cam
in the city of spartanburg. Inc
end came quietly after several days
critical illness.
Last Monday morning early he was
taken with a fainting spell. but AFTER
medical attention by the attending
physician, DR.. II. r. Black, he quick
" rallied. Tuesday be took a urn
for the worse and Tuesday night ne
vas not expected to live through the
night. Wednesday morning he snow
ed signs of returning consciousness
and about 9 o'clock Wednesday
morning he was partly conscious.
Early Wednesday afternoon ne De-
came delirious and continued TO gro"
worse. Wednesday night Dr. n. n
Black left DR.. Carlisle's bedside al
3 o'clock, leaving his patient IN
charge of a skilled trained nurse
medicines wets administered 70
soothe the delirious mind and bring
rest. At . O'Clock Thursday morn
ing DR.. Carlisle was reported by the
uure to he resting under the lnhu-
ence of anesthetics. but that he was
growing apparently weaker.
The end came so quietly that no
one could tell just when life was
hreathed out. At 7:45 it was an
nounced that DR.. Carlisle was dead.
The wonderful strong constitution
that had never known abuse either
by dissipation or un~warranted en-
posure had made a stout fight against
death. Several times he had raj
lied from attacks that were tnougn'
to be final, but the harvest of a well
snent life was full with the ripenlng
of the years.
Funeral Was Very Simple.
The funeral. which took place at
4 o'clock Friday afternoon, was Very
simple, and was held in Wofford COL
lege chapel in the presence OF a very
large crowd of people from all over
the State. There was no speech
making or tributes from eminent
ment. The life of the grand old maj
spoke more eloquently than the lips
of any man could have spoken III
his praise. So,
Two members from each OF the
classes in college and two from the
fitting school were chosen as
active p~allbearers, as follows:
Senior Class-R. Leon keaton'
Keaton; w. F. Klugh. Greenwood.
Junior Class-M. S. LiVeley'
Waynesboro, Ca; D. T. Outz, John
ston.
Sophomore Class-G. NJ. Crun'
Orangeburg; C. R. Moseley, Laurens'
Freshman Class-B. NJ. Keller, ).
T. Moore.
Fitting School,. H. Anderson
W. C. Moore.
The honorary ~pallbearers we're E.
r. Hodges. R. A. Child. G. a.. "ooa'
7. l.. Glenn, Marion Dargan. w. r.
Burnett, J. B. Cleveland. IL. ?. WI:
liam, J.. A. Mccullough an. L. II.
Moss.
The services were c~ondtcie@| by
the Rev. r. s. Truesdale. pastor o.
Central Methodist church. where Dr.
Carlisle held bis membership. He
was Inferred at Magnolia cemetery
Spartanburg.
Formal announcement Of the death
Of DR.. Carlisle was made to the stu
dents of Wofford College at Chape'
Thursday morning by President II
n. Snyder. lie was filled with emo
tion when he told the students thai
the former president had finished HI!
work here and had gone to reap nj
reward. Following the announce
ment, DR.. Snyder said there would
he no exercises Thursday and Fri
day. The old College bell. the ring
ing of which had been sweet to the
ears of the deceased educator TO-
more than fifty years. was tolled
AZ taps being given. DR.. Carlisle
is survived by two children. anne
H. Carlisle, Jr., and Miss Sallie Car
Isle. and two brothers and II SIS
ter, Mrs. William Morrison. ant
Thomas Carlisle, Of B.ackstock. 5
c., and Capt. j. W. Carlisle, Of Spar
tanburg.