The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1922-02-22
DEATH CLAIMS
GEN. E. 7. SYKES
MUCH LOVED CITIZEN PASS
ES AWAY LAST SAT-
URDAY NIGHT
END WAS PEACEFUL
Without Suffering And Without
Warning Aged Confederate
Enters Into The Rest Pre-
pared For The Saints.

General Z. T. Sykes is not with us
any more. This announcement is
written with profound sorrow, because
we had known General Sykes for six
teen years and loved him we'll.
Like lightning flash out of a sky
of blue came the sad tidings that a
message had come from the other
world, had whispered something in
the ear of General Sykes, and that
the old warrior had fallen into the
dreamless slumber that wakes only
at the trumpet's sound.
All day Saturday, the General was
at work in his law office. He went
about his labors in his accustomed
way, giving no sign of a weakening
of his vitality or let-up in his
activity. About sundown, the writer
met him near the Columbus National
Bank building and talked with him a
few minutes about the weather. Gen
eral Sykes was a close observer of
the weather for many years, and his
predictions, based on experience, were
nearly always true. He seemed as
well as usual and spoke cheerfully.
A few hours later his spirit was in
another realm, and his body was rigid
in the cold grip of dissolution.
AS in the case of Colonel w. d.
Humphries, the passing of Captain
Pope had depressing effect upon
General Sykes. When he heard that
toin hnI op4arn1 iY,fn
the tears fell like rain from the eyes
of General Sykes. The three men,
General Sykes, Colonel Humphries
and CAPTAIN Pope were very close to
each other. Fighting the battles of
the South together in the Confederate
Army, and dwelling together during
the years that have elapsed since Ap-
pomattox, an indissoluble bond existed
between them. What you said of one,
you said of all. What you did to one,
you did to all. When the inexorable !
messenger came for Captain Pope,
the hearts of General Sykes and~Col- |
onel Humphries were broken. They !
are all together again, on the other
side.
Edward Turner Sykes was born in
Morgan County, Ala, March Is, 1888.
In another month he would have been
eighty-four years of age. He was a
son of Richard and Martha Sykes,
who came from Virginia to Alabama
at an early day, and who, when their
son was baby, moved to Columbus.
Here Edward Turner Sykes grew to
boyhood and manhood, and here, Nov
ember 16, 1863, he was married to
Miss Caroline Harrison, native CO.
lumbian, who survives him. Nine
years ago this splendid old couple
celebrated their golden wedding. To
this union there were born four
children Harrison, Mrs. w. B. Ham
ilton, Edward, and Miss Augusta
Sykes. The two daughters survive.
There are also a number of grand
children, and four great-grand-child-
ren.
In April, lS43, Edward Turner
Sykes united with the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He remained
faithful and cOnsecrated member un-
til the day of his departure. He was
also an active Sunday School worker,
having, at the time of his passing,
class of Bible students (men and
women) in the Methodist Sunday
School. He was a close, careful, pain
stalking student Of the Bible, and gave
helpful instruction to the members,
of his class.
Edward Turner Sykes was brave, 7
chivalric, courageous Confederate sol
dier. He went into the army a cap .
tain and was paroled a major. The [
title of General" was honorary, he {
having been appointed a brigadier- q
general on the staff of one Of the {
commanders of the United Confed-
crate Veterans several years after
the close of the war. He left Colum- J
bus at the outbreak of hostilities be- g
tween the South and the rorth to Z
join the Tenth Mississippi, the COM
mand of General Edward Carey Wal {
thall. He was afterward in the COM
mand Of General w. H. Jackson. The !
brave sons of the South who fought
at his side speak with pride of his
services to the South in that memor- Y
able struggle. He fought for his con-
victions in the sixties, and he remain
ed true to his convictions until the Z
hour in which he was summoned to 2
cross the river.
A remark General Sykes made last a
Saturday, while making a call upon G
Colonel W, d. Humphries. has a c
peculiar pathos now. Sitting by the a
side Of his loved comrade, General {
Sykes said Hell soon be gone, and G
] shall miss him So" But General {
Sykes was the first 10 90. Ii
Funeral services were held az ten J
O'Clock on Monday morning at the {