The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-11
FAMOUS JURIST
DIED YESTERDAY
IN AS EVILLE
Federal Judge Pritchard Dead
Following Illness of Sew
eral Months.
tsy The Associated Hres.l

ASHEFILLE, n. c., April 10.-rhe
body OF Federal Judge Jeter Conlev
Prttchard, senior judge of the United
States circuit court Of appeals Cor the
fourth district, who died here this
morning at O'Clock OF pneumonia in
his siXty-iourth year, will lie in state
at the First Baptist church Tuesday
between the hours OF II and . o'clock.
With fellow jurists of the federal
bench, other prominent national fig
ures and leading citizens Of the com
monWeaIth and civic and fraternal or
CARNATIONS of this city will in a BODY
attend the funeral services to be held
tuesday afternoon at 8 O'Clock, con-
Quoted by Rev. Dr. w. T. Powell. his
pastor. at which time Congressman
James J. Britt will deliver the me-
mortal address.
Mayor Gallatin Roberts tonight is
sued a proclamation requesting the
suspension of all business for a period
of 10 minutes, beginning a the funeral
hour
Among the great number of messages
of coincidence received by Mrs. Pritch-
ard was one from President Harding
which read as follows:
II have learned with deep regret of
the death of Judge Pritchard, whom
held in great respect and high regard.
Please accept assurance of very genuine
sympathy and know that many of his
feel a share in the great
loss his death brings to his state and
country.
WARREN G. HARDING"
Other messages of sympathy were re-
ceived from Circuit Judges NJ. A.
Knapp of Washington and Charles A.
Wood, Marion, S. c., associates on the
bench with the dead jurist; Judge Ed
mund Waddiu, Richmond, Va; Judge
James E. Boyd, Greensboro, n. c.;
Judge John c. Rose Baltimore; Judge
+. Yates Webb. Shelby, n. c.; Frank
A. Linney, chairman state republican
executive committee: Congressman
John w. Langley, and a large number
of other congressman and senator's in
Guiding prominent officials in Wash
ington from North Carolina and other
states.
For more than 48 hours previous to
his death he had been unconscious and
while medical experts exerted every
effort to save his life the disease con-
ttnued to fasten its grip. While his
death was not unexpected this morn
ing, it was a great shock to members
of the family who had kept constant
vigil at his bedside.
Judge Pritchard son of William II.
Pritchard was born in Jonesboro.
Tenn, April II, 1857, his father being
Of Irish and Welsh ancestry. and his
mother, Elizabeth Browne Of Irish pa !
Facing the problem of obtaining an
education during the trying days of
reconstruction iQ the southland, and .
following the death Of his father at
Mobile Ala. his mother instiIIed into
his mind and heart those stern precepts !
Of morality by which he has ever been
governed. Judge Pritchard. yet in his .
teens walked 35 miles across the .
mountains of eastern Tennessee and /
western North Carolina to Bakersvflle |
where he arrived with 10 cents and .
nothing more save the clothes ne wore
Eking out his subsistence there
through toll in the print shop by day.
1 desire to achieve fame prompted him
% by night search such text books a :
we're obtainable.
It was then that he received the at
entiOn Of statesmen in North Caro-
ina and identifying himself with the
republican party, began a career the
prominence and limitations Of which
we're only estopped by his calling to
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