The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-03-13
JUDGE ]. A. ORR
CALLED HIGHER
FORMER HONORED CITIZEN
OF COLUMBUS DIES IN
NEW YORK.
AGE NINETY THREE
Last Surviving Member Of Con-
federate Congress-Natiye
of South Carolina-Prac-
ticed Law Here.

When time surrendered into the
keeping Of eternity the spirit of Judge
Jehu A. Orr last Thursday in New
York City there passed from the
scenes and activities of earth the last
member of the Confederate Congress
Judge Orr had lived longer thar
most men live. He was born April
10, 1928, in Anderson County, South
Carolina, hence had he lived until the
tenth of next month he would have
been ninety-three years of age.
Judge Orr formerly was citizen OF
Columbus, coming here from Hous-
ton, Miss, in 1868. About a year anC
a half ago his health began to fai
and he went to Chattanooga, Tenn.
to live with his daughter, Mrs. Frank
Harris. Last December his other
daughter, Miss Pauline V. Orr, took
him to New York, and it was in the
nations metropolis that final sum
mons came and the book of his life
was closed.
At the outbreak of the Civil War
Judge Orr was appointed as one OF
eight men to go to Montgomery, Ala.
to form the Provisional Confederate
Congress. Afterward he was com.
missioned by Judah P. Benjamin tc
raise regiment for the Confederate
Army. He recruited regiment OF
fourteen hundred men and was un,
animously elected colonel of the regi
ment. He commanded the regiment
during the Mississippi campaigns. Of
1851 and 1862, under the generalshiY
81 van Dorm, f'em6ofton and John.
ston. He resigned the military pos,
In 1884 and took seat in the Per-
manent Confederate Congress, holding
same until the Southern Confederacy
was dissolved.
Judge Orr was a devout and con-
secrated member of the Presbyterian
Church, and for fifty years was rul.
ing elder in that denomination. He
descended from old Revolutionary
stock, was graduate of Princeton
University, and was a Doctor of Laws
of the University of Alabama. Al
one time he was judge of the Sixth
Judicial District of Mississippi, and
for many years was attorney for the
Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company.
When the news reached Columbus
that Judge Orr had passed away, the
members of the Columbus Bar AS.
ISOLATION held a meeting and decided
to attend the funeral in a body. A
committee was appointed to draft
suitabll resolutions. The committee
was composed of Colonel William
Baldwin, General f. T. Sykes, Judge
James T. Harrison and Hon. Jen
nings !. Sturdivant. A committee was
also appointed to obtain suitable
floral tribute, the committee consist
ed of Hon. John F. Frierson and Hon
w. E. Johnson.
The remains of Judge Orr arrived
from New York on the Southern abou
one o'clock yesterday. A large dele
cation of Columbus friends and ad
mirers of the late jurist met thu
train. The remains were accompanies
by his two daughters, Mrs. Franz
Harris Of Chattanooga, Tenn, ant
Miss Pauline " Orr, of New York
Rev. Jerome Harris, of Brooklyn,
grandson of Judge Orr, and Judg,
Vandergraaf, of Tuscaloosa, brothe
Of Judge Orr's second wife. The bod.
was laid TO rest in Friendship Gene
terry, after comforting funeral ser
vice conducted by Rev. Jesse C. Ro
wan. A large concourse of sorrowinj
friends and fellow-churchmen wer
present to pay last tribute of re
spect to one who, like Abou Ben AID
hem, slowed his fellow-men."
Judge Orr needs no eulogy at on
hands. His long and useful life wa
its own eulogy. He has passed fror
amongst us, and the times and place
that knew him once will know hin n
more forever. But his example re
mains to inspire the rising genera
ton with high ideals. Peace to hi
ashes and rest--sweet, eternal rest
to his soul.
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