Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1921-12-28
SOUTH CAROLINA,
DEATH CALLS "AIARSE HENRY"
veteran Editor Of louisville Courier.
journal Died ut jacksonville. -


Henry Watterson, known. to the
American people as the last suryivl
Ing member of the old school Of
journalism, and to his close friends
as "Marse Henry" died early to-day
at hotel here. Death came peace.
fully, the venerable editor retaining
consciousness almost to the end and
conversing during the last half hour
with his'wife and daughter and son.
Col. Wattcrson come to jackson
Vile several weeks ago in accordance
with his annual custom OF spending
the winter in 'FlOrida, usually at Sort
Meyers. soon after he arrived here
he was taken i'll, but for the past
few days an Improvement in his con.
dition seemed noticeable. He con-
tracted a slight cold Tuesday. and
while seated in 4 chair yesterday
morning, soon after breakfast, he
suffered an acute bronchial attack
and was ordered 10 his bed by his
physician. His condition grew worse
during the day and night, and the
end came at G.15 o'clock this morn
ing.
The immediate cause of his death,
his physician said, was heart failure,
superinduced by congestion Of the
lungs. Thus "Marse Henry passed
to that beautiful shore" where he
last October wrote his comrades Of
the Confederacy that he was "su1e
the Bonnie Blue Flag will be flying
at the fore and the bands will be
playing Dixie on parade, and the
pretty girls will be distributing the
Chattanooga Rebel (the newspaper
published by him during the War
Between. the States) to groups of
ragged, red-nosed an gels who have
not forgot SR ebel sYs B,
,sss HJ enpy sters6 6m. one 81 the Geoun-
try's best known Journalists, and for
mer owner and publisher Of the Lou
isv1lle, KY, Courier-Journal, died at
a local hotel in Jacksonville this
morning at G.1J o'clock.
Louisville Grievcd.
Louisville, Ky, Dec. 22.-IIenry
Watterson. who died in Jacksonville,
early to-day. left louisville three
weeks ago for his annual pilgrimage
to the South, where for years he had
A tlty II
in his usual health, which. however,
for several years had not been good.
News Of his death was received with
many evidences of grief in this city.
where for more than fifty years he
had been Il notable figure. Appar-
emily he faced with calmness the end
Of his span of life. Once, before un-
dergoing an operation, he said to the
editor of the Courier-Jour-
nal:
81 am prepared at any time to sur
render my life to God, who gave it.
We do not know about these things,
and face the outcome with serenity,
whatever it may be. 1t is a perilous
thing for man in his 10Th year to
submit to the surgeons knift, but
! am ready for it, and for all that
may follow"
While convalescing from a previous
illness Mr. Watterson consented to
read some advance obituaries of him
self and wrote this:
81 am getting Il fOretaste Of my
own funeral-sitting up in tho grave,
as it were. and reading the obitu-
ari"s-and 'grinning at the boys
but very cheerful and grateful. 1t is
kind O. nice'-heaps better than be-
ing saddled with motives and called
names"
Waucrson's Body at Rest.
Jacksonville, Fla, Dec. 23. -
"Marsc Henry" Watterson, content
with the fulness Of his life, rested
to-day from his labors. With only
the members Of his immediate fam
lily present, and with the hour of tho
service unannounced, the body OF the
venerable Kentucky journalist was
placed in a vault to remain until
spring, when it will be taken homo
to be given a final resting place be-
side his mother and father in Cave
Hill cemetery at Louisville.
Because OF the grief Of his mo-
ther and sister, and for fear many |
persons would attempt to attend the /
brief and simple service at a mortu-
nry chapel, which preceded the lay