The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-08-13
THE PASSING OF JUDGE MCCALL.

rate Ut. henry MCNall, was Dorm at or
near ClarRsburg, Carroll county,
Tenn, August 14th, 1859, and as
Judge of the Federal court, with resi-
dence in Memphis, died suddenly from
acute gastritls, Sunday night, August
9Th, 1920, at 9:25 o'clock, while visit
ing in the home of his daughter, Ed
die, wife of Marshall F. Priest, at
Huntingdon, Tenn, his wife and
daughter, Mrs. Priest, being the only
members of his family present. Judge
Mccall was taking a short vacation
and was said to be in apparently good
health until about 900 o'clock of the
night of his demise, when h was at
tackled by acute gasrtites, which was a
few moments later complicated with
an attack of angina pectoris, a suffo-
eating contraction Of the chest, pre-
sumably caused by action of the heart
vessels. Until 5 o'clock on Sunday af-
%ternoon, his younger daughter, Mrs.
Lamar Heiskell, ruth was with him
and when she reached her home in
Memphis, at II o'clock that night, the
news of her fathers death awaited
her.
| am indebted to Memphis papers
for a chronological statement Of the
life and activities Of Judge Mccall,
which are represented in the follow
ing dates:
Born, Aug Ia, 1859.
Education completed in 1881, when
he graduated from the University Of
Tennessee, with A. B. degree. Ad-
mitted to State bar in 1882.
In 1882 he was editor of the Ten
nessee Republican at Huntingdon.
Was elected to the Legislature as
Direct Representative from Hender-
son county in 1887 and served three
years.
In 1890 he became assistant dis
trict attorney for the Western dis
Ptrict Of Tennessee.
1895-97 he represented the Eighth
Congressional District in Congress,
having been given the then Populite
vote and carrying considerable Demo-
cratic vote against Hon. B. A. Enloe.
Was married October 14th, 1885 to
Miss Addie, daughter of the late Hon.
E. J. Timberlage.
In 1890 made the race for Governor
of Tennessee as the Republican NOM
inee.
In 1892 he was appointed collector
of Internal Revenue, with office at
Nashville.
In January, 1905, President Roose-
welt appointed his Judge of the Unit
ed States Court for the Western Dis
Ntrict Of Tennessee, which position he
was filling with honor at the time of
his death.
On my own memory | can state
that Judge Mccall came to Lexing-
ton from Huntingdon in the Autumn
of 1883 and when l came here in
March, 1884, | found him in law par
nership with Mr.. Newton H. Lassiter,
now said to be an eminent and veal
thy lawyer in the city Of Fort Worth,
Texas.
To this union with Miss Addie TIM
berlake were born four c~hildren-Ed-
die, Grace Ruth and John f., Junior,
all of whom survive except Grace,
the flower of his flock" who died at
Undertake, tho home of her maternal
grandfather, in the winter of 1894-5,
and in her fourth year, and when the
family lived at the present J. II. Moi
fit place on North Main Street, in
Lexington. / can never forget that
beautiful and sweet child, whom /
loved and who loved me-and the fact
that went to her funeral from the
Undertake home and assisted in lay
ing her little body in the warm bosom
of mother Earth, when the ground
was covered with a coat of ice.
The most marked characteristic in
the makeup Of Judge Mccall was his
persistence-his determination to do.
which characteristic accounted in the
greatest degree for his success in life.
When he was appointed to the respon-
sible position in which he died and in
which he had made a good name, win
ming the confidence of the people and
the respect Of the legal fraternity, he
bent his every energy to so perform
his duties that he would be regarded
by the people as a good and just
judge and at the same time prove
satisfactory to the great government,
whose Department Of Justice he rep
resented.
His loss is to be deplored from all
viewpoints-his family, his govern
ment, his friends and the city of
which he had become a fixed and val
ued resident. We sympathize with