Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-11-26
]. SANDERS GILLESPIE.

off man die, shall he live again 2"
Every man of every cline and age
has asked himself that question and
tho answers have been many, rang
ing from the undoubting "yes' of the
great majority of human kind to the
absolute negation of the abnormal
minority. Upon one thing, however,
there is absolute unanimity-when a
man dies, he lives on in the memories
and hearts of those who loved him
until they, too. pass on.
1t it as little as we can do, in this
restless, hurrying time, to pause for
moment to pay tribute to the
life and character of friend when
he departs on the long Journey, for
it is certain, as we believe, that he
has only "gone before" We follow
Nearly all the men in Tazewell
County knew Sanders Gillespie. He
was not an old man, having been
born during the rising of the storm
of civil war, April 81, 1861, and dy
ing November l, 1920. but, by reason
of wide relationship with leading
families and diverse business inter-
csts, he had come in contact with the
majority of the citizens of his coun-
ty.
His opinions were always positive
and his advocacy of them clear cut
ana forceful. He was no compromiser.
lie was always "for" or against"
essentially partisan in temper
ament- His judgment of men was as
definite as it was of measures. He
made mistakes, rs all men do. and
aroused the same hostility all posi-
1--WE men arouse. but no man oues-
tioned his honesty of opinion or his
sincerity. Consequently, his friends
were very close to him and all others
respected him. No man ever con-
uerhhed the very appearance of crook
euhess or sharp business" more in
toierantly than did he, and when he
agreed to do thing he meant that
very thing to the utmost farthinp.
lie was not money grabber. but
pursued conservative, sensible. sue
cessIul business course, leaving n
comfortable estate to his wife and
two daughters.
intellectually, he belonged to no
ordinary order. His memory was tho
wonder of. all who knew him. He had
read much and of the best. and had
heard eminent speakers. It was al
Iilosc startling. sometimes, in ordi-
nary conversation, to hear him ouoto
seroatlm from some standard his
Tory or noted speaker. Apparently
ne mad never forgotten anvtb;rn
Il Importance that he ever read nr
neard. And yet. he ranked as one Of
cne pest Judges of cattle in n COUNTY
of cattle men. " -" county
With his characteristic decisive
ness, when he made up his mini -
JON the church. he notified the n,;'' ="
lister of his desire. and beno M m''ii- !
nIelnper OF the Lutheran church. the
t,utch I'LL Oh his wife, and died in that
His greatest regret seemed to he
rnat n1at; ne could not five to see the com
pi pie'l9n Of the college education Of
nis aaughters. in whom he took tbo
.rSltest pride. but he did see tbnm @
%e' started on the path that loada %
:" nooie womanhood, with tho ,,o,'
maze smooth for them. way
Gut of a large family. onlv t,,o
man; nam; a brother and sister. Dr 7
-, gillespie. Lawrenceville Jll;nois o.
nna Mrs. W. B. Greear. W;lmors'
nentucky. o,"a His father, who died vea =,
;n' C;,, was brother of the late 7 q
s.llespie and A. P. Gillesnio fon o.
,y ,isnny years leaders in all publ;c oud &
BUSINESS =; affairs in this section a,,I, a,a
a,s m: mother, before her marriara ,nno "mo
%,Ss ~ns, Elizabeth Sanders, of Smwth fh
county, member of n fam;,,, my nS IN
prominent in Southwest Viroi1;o 'o''f'
more mo-, ,s ,.I great need this day for
who liner, men like Sanders Gillespie. mon
and and n,ho Nov what they believe and WIN
thu tbe ,sna, VINO dare stand unflinchinglv for for
'"e good of the country. -o'
A FRIEND.