The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-01-12
MILTON s. EDWARDS.


Milton Samuel Edwards, elder child of
the three children and the elder of
the two sons of Thompsie and Mrs.
Bette Edwards, Lexington suffered
the loss of a young man whose life
was full of promise until he was
stricken with that dread disease, tn-
berculosis, about eighteen months
ago.
Milton was born in Lexington, Mar.
9th, 1891, and after disability Extend
ing over about eighteen months, cnl-
minating in confinement to bis home
the last two and half months, his
death occurred at the hour of 1876 p.
m, Friday, January 5, 1917.
His whole life was apent in Lexing-
ton. Here he was born, spent his
happy boyhood days, obtained his
education, and when stricken by the
malady which caused his death, was
making an efficient salesman in the
Stewart Drug Company, of which his
uncle, John w. Stewart, is the head.
In 1915 his health began to fail and
on the 7th of March, 1916, he went,
accompanied by his devoted mother,
to Deming, New Mexico, in the hope
that the peculiar climate of that To-
cality might stay the ravages of the
disease which had marked him for
its victim. At Deming he remained
about four months, after which he
! went to Tucson, Arizona, and spent a
month with the Rev. Virgil Pafford,
who had also gone West in the hope
of restoring his failing health, but
who continued to decline and few
months ago came home to Lexington
to die.
Milton came home on the 10th OF
last July, and for while seemed to
hold his own, but toward the last of
October was confined to his-home and
did not go out any more. During the
last two and a half months of his life
he was still hopeful and built many
plans for the future. but with those
who loved him, that time was but a
period of watchful, loving, yet sor-
rowful waiting for the end, by the
devoted parents, and sister, his only
b. other, Richard, coming home at
Christmas from the University of
Tennessee in Knoxville. During his
confinement he was the recipient of
all possible attention from the family
and host of friends and his appreci-
alton was marked, just as 1t was for
any favor or kindness when he was In
full possession of health.
In addition to his natural inclina-
tion to morality and leading clean
life, Milton had taken the higher step
of openly processing his faith in that
which is required to constitute the
Christian religion, in the summer OF
1913, and Immediately united with the
Baptist church; SO, when the end
came, the often dread summons found
him not at all disturbed and he simply
drifted from this life into the life
Eternal.
In writing of Milton Edwards, his
character and his comparatively short
life, we know whereof we speak. On
that life and character was left no
blot or blemish. BY nature and by
cultivation he was clean--clean Of
hand and clean of heart. One of his
boyhood and young manhood friends,
one who had been with him as much
as any otner, says if Milton had a
fault his closest friends did not know
it. Quiet and reserved to his elders,
modest by intuition, courteous to all
| in business and out, he was always
friendly to and loved by children. His
conduct, followed without variation
all hio life, won him place in the
hearts and esteem of the people,
which was attested during his illness
and by the tributes paid him in words
Of sympathy for the family and the
superb floral offerings which made his
funeral marked one.
What a pity it is that the world,
the church, the family, business and
society should be deprived of such a
man as Milton Edwards was making.
His death carried him to reward far
surprising in its glory our ability to
understand, and by and by that
knowledge will come, as sweet con-
ISOLATION, to the grieved hearts that
mourn him. His devotion to his pa
rents, his only sister, Miss Eva, and
his only brother, Richard, was re-
markable, as was their love for him,
and his taking away just in the prime
of his young manhood is indeed blow
to them which only the healing balm
OF time can alleviate.
The funeral service was held In the
home last Saturday afternoon, Revs.
Fleetwood Ball and Fred H. Peoples
and Elder j. O. Brown officiating, all
paying deserved tribute to the char.