The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-01-31
COL s. A. CUNNINGHAM
Tribute to the Editor and Founder
of the Confederate Veteran of
Nashville

/ IN common vita every other diTiS-
ion Of Daughters OF the Eonfederacy.
Florida suffers an irreparable. loss in
the death OF Col Cunningham.
founder owner and editor of the
! Confederate Veteran, and IN behalf
OF every member OF the division. the
state president offers our inadequate
/ tribute 10 his worth, from the depths
/ OF genuine grief
Not merely have We lost friend
but the work so dear 10 US, has lost
| its best friend
/ GOD grant him eternal peace, and
give him the full measure OF the re-
/ ward for those who are faithful TO
| the uttermost
Ante1ating our organization by a
| year or more, the COME ierate Vet
| eran has always been our reliance.
/ and never has il failed us, for near
| y twenty-one years has it stood as
| the defender of the memories OF our
| fathers, o. the unsulliei purity of
/ their motives ami their names; as
/ the tireless searcher after true and
/ accurate records Of these great years
/ OF struggle. Its very name was an
! inspiration to US whose fathers were
| Confederate soldiers.
Courteous 10 friend and opponent
alike, it yet never .hesitated to speak
the truth for the South and her
children; and beside other papers in
valuable to history, which it always
contained month by month and year
by year; it called each month for us
the last roll of our heroes, as they
passed into the glory of the sunlight
across the mist yelled stream. and
gathered up for US the record OF
each brave life. leaving in its files a
biography of Southern men, which is
priceless.
Back of all this Accomplishment
stood the real Confederate veteran
Mr.. Cunningham: his loyal heart the
inspiration of it all: his tireless brain
the motive power; his great soul the
| iAiC I'll iii II al.
Quiet, unassuming, passionately
devoted to the South and her history
he never faltered in the work he had
set for himself: never questioned is
value, Or the need for it; bearing
| encouragement often, sometimes
loss, with patience and dignity; ap-
preciative of all kindliness and en-
couragement; forgetful of all that
was the reverse; putting his time
his money, his influence, himself. in
to the steady work of this great
monthly history OF his comrades and
their deeds: there is no man who can
fill the place he has left vacant, who
can do for US what he has done: but
1 still his work must go on, AMI every
/ living Confederate veteran, every son
Of Confederate veteran, every
Daughter of the Confeieracy, must
feel a personal responsibility to see
that it does go on successfully, as he
would have it.
His last thought. his last effor1
for it; for the South for US; the
great messenger who brought his
summons to the greatest of all re
unions; the messenger whose yelled
face We call Death. found him where
he would have wished TO be found
at his post Of duty.
No failing of his powers; no lay.
ing down of his work from age OF
feebleness; alert TO the last; pass
ing swiftly from the thought Of hi:
. comra les gone before, to their i'm
mediate presence; We strain oul
spirit ears to almost catch the GLAD
welcome from those whose story he
has told so truly and so we'll.
Many tributes will he paid to him
many monuments perchance be rear
ed to his memory; but the grandes
one OF all, the one he would rather
have, let us unite to give him
, that one which he reared with hi
own hand. his own heart, the one h
builded in his own lifetime, the one
which must not faiI-the COME Ter
ate Veteran.
Sister Esther Carlctta. S. r.
President Fla Div. L. D. c.