The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-05-05
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le Judge Roane established himse.
J. thoroughly enough in the law I
'e prompt Gov. Robert Lowry, in 1873:
d to name him circuit Judge of this di.
trict as then constituted. He serve
d as Judge six years. After his a.
e Pittsboro to Grenada in 1883.
Before he was named as circui
v judge, he served three terms in tn
d lower house of the legislature fror
Calhoun County and also one tern
i in the senate from Calhoun and Yalo
n busha counties. He also served il
The Senate, after moving to Grenada
e from this and Yalobusha county, hav
t ing been elected in 1891.
The Judge was first married il
t 1865 to Miss Mary Morrison, of Mar
s ,On, Ala, who died in Grenada Jun,
/, "a, 1884. He vas married the secont
' time to Miss Kate Winter, by whom
| he is survived, in January 1886. Tc
his first marriage, seven children were
born, five of whom survive. They are
j. A, A. G. and S. S. Roane, all of
Grenada, and Mrs. w. r. Roundtree,
of Philadelphia, Pa, and Mrs. w. E,
Callen, of Selma, Ala. There is one
daughter by his last marriage, Miss
Anna Elise.
Judge Roane will be known as one
of the distinctive characters who left
his imprint upon this section of the
State. Born in the interior away
from the maddening crowds and
where Natures song, her flowers, her
trees, her running brooks, her rugged
hills and sloping hillsides, her low
lands and her rivers each and all
taught a lesson; he had time to think
and early realized the value of con-
temptation and of reasoning from
cause to effect. He was reared where
neighbor got to really know neighbor
and where the joys and the sorrows
of each n were the joys and the
sorrows to some degree of all. He
grew up where the home was the nest
and where God was honored. His
childhood and young manhood got it's
experience where the home, the
church and the school held their
rightful place as God designed them.
He got the benefit of the neighbor-
hood gatherings, the ~picnics, the
home weddings where the most sacred
relations Of life were entered into.
And while being enriched in charac-
ter and mind by all these delightful
and ennObling e~xperiences, the tender
and sympathetic elements in, his life
were touched by the toliing of the
country church bells in the silence of
the forests when one of the communi-
ty was called to the world beyond.
Having grown up and having been
nurtured in such surroundings, is it
any wonder that Judge Roane was
stalwart in character, stable III his
convictions, earnest in his advocacy,
tender in his sympathasies and that
his heart was easily reached by the
sorrows and the distresses of his fell
bowman? OF such was he. and yea
even more.
~ Tce ROa IL enGeavoret to think
we'll IF his feliowE.an. The struggles
and viscitudes that necessarily come
to every man who has fixed convic-
ton and aggressive ideas were soon
passed up by him as one of the Incl
dents of the day. He loved to face !
every day with a clean slate. He
tread life's pathway realizing at ali
iiiO iO NO4iIlCSIlllS HIN DSlWCSu Lie
other side of Jordan and temporal
affairs. He was charitable in thought, |
generous in deed, resolute in purpose,
noble IN ambition and gentle in dis
position. There was no one so
humble or unfortunate that he could
not get his ear; the plea of the down
and out and disheartened always
found a ready listener and a counsel
or in him.
AS a soldier, he was courageous and
trustworthy. AS a legislator, he was
vigilant and alert for what he be-
lieved to be the general welfare. AS /
a Judge, he was fair and in all his
deliberations endeavored to further
the ends of justice. AS a citizen. he
his part and courageously stood
for those policies and those principles !
that strengthened the home, foster
ed the church and lent aid and in
spiration to all that was best and en-
during. AS a father and husband,
he was thoughtful, affectionate and
ne was eve more contented
IN his last days than when talking of
what he hoped for for his children
and the problems that he hoped to
have solved for them. And thus in
thinking over the life of this good
man, n must conclude that to such
one,
Death is the crown of life:
We're death denied, poor men would
live in vain
We're death denied, to live would not
be life" t
Indeed it may be said in the langu-
lge of Webster, that che died as a
man,"
Judge Roane fought a good fight.
lie kept the faith. He will be genu-
nelly missed by a large circle of adj
hiring friends in Grenada and. Gre
ada County.
To the devoted wife and six chill
rem as well as the brother whose
cart bleeds, The Sentinel tenders the
lncerest sympathy.