The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-04
HALE OF QUOTA
Daughter of Famed Southern
 Family Dies; Fashioned Flag Of Silk Frock For Soldiers

Courtland February 3.-(Special.) )-Mrs ter of Col Samuel D. Morgan of ante bellum and Civil war fame, and the widow of Col. w c. Sherrod, Alabamian. who, was one of the most prominent statesmen of the war and reconstruction era, died early Monday morning at her home, 1006 Broad stret, Wichita Falls. Tex. Death resulted from an illness fol lowing her collapse on receiving news of the death of her grandson, William Sher- rod Toney, slain September 30, while as s:sting officers in raid on a Kemp City gambling house.
 The funeral services were held Monday afternoon at o'clock. The homo was filled with friends, the majority of them of quarter of a century's standing, who paid at this time their last respects to the deceased. Here and there in the com pany appeared Confederate veteran in the uniform in which the father, brothers and husband of Mrs. Sherrod served in the COS.
 Rev. N. F. Grafton, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, conducted the serv- ices. members of the choir singing songs which were favorites of Mrs. Sherrod.
 Honorary pallbearers were John Wood house, H. c. Young, Wiley Robertson. J. J. Lory, T. B. Noble, Judge Edgar Scurry and Judge A. H. Carrigan.
 ACTIVE PALLBEARERS
 Active pallbearers were Joe Henson Elbert Childers, R. E. Strange, J. N Prothro, J. L. Mears and T. T. T. Reese Burial was in Riverside cemetery on the Sherrod lot. where the bodies of her hus- band and grandson are resting.
 The five sons and two daughters ol Mrs. Sherrod were at her bedside for sev' eral days before the end came, and de' spite her suffering and periods of uncon- sciousness, all were recognized by her in a farewell before the end came.
 C. H. Sherrod of Courtland, St. Ciah Sherrod of Buena Park, Cal, and Ben jamin Sherrod of Fl Paso arrived last
 The four other children, Miss Luclis Sherrod and Mrs. c. E. Toney and ". C and Eugene Sherrod, reside in Wichits
 Falls. Mrs. Sherrod had called for 'n' young widow of her grandson, who IS III
 Elk City, and Mrs. Toney also arriVee in time for the dying recognition.
 DAUGHTER OF STATESMAN
 Mrs Sherrod's death marks the passinl of a xentlewoman of the southern type
 Born in Nashville, Tenn. on January II 184. she was the daughter of Samue
 Dold Morgan, celebrated as stAtesmsi and as . leader in the commercial worie
 in the ante-bellum days, as well as
 warrior and a father of warriors or tn'
 Confederacy.
 Tennessee. in which he was leade
 living. paid his remains the htghes honor possible, his body being buried II state in the capitol building at Nasn vile. One of his sons. St. Clair Morgan slain in Chickamauga, was west ronil ar and was said by many to have fires the first gun at Fort Sumter. Anotne brother. Samuel Dold Mortan, 'Jr., va Killed in 1862 ip Kentucky. General Jonl H. Morgan of Mexican and CIVIL wA fame, was her cousin. anu there wer' other close relatives, who all playe' nrominent parts in the history of tn south. both the old and new.
 EXTENSIVELY EDUCATED Mrs. Sherrod.s education was un psnal :. for the girl of that day. he father, who was noted as scholar. a we'll as for, his attainments in othe lines. paying particular atention to he traininr in all lines. She was espe ciaifv talented as an artist. her nat ural gift for this being cultivated UT der the direction of the best instruc tors of the day.
 Art critics of the modern school. al well as the critics of her younge days, have pronounced her canvase' l tho work of Gentue. It is true in I.dication of the spirit of the old souti l that she never commercialiSed her art ] painting always for the pleasure Q | he- family and friends. Many homel | in Wichita Falls number among thei prised treasures canvas from he l brush.
 | She WAS veritable storehouse Q 1 wonderful "reminiscences of the days Q 1.-the Golden South, of the gay days Q | the southern capis,is, and the nationa capital as we'll. before the Civil wa ' tore the land. and the old papers. maga
 zines and books which she treasure'