The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-02-24
GRAYs0N COUNTY LOSES
IT'S FIRST CITIZEN

The heart OF Sherman is sad to
day. Our first citizen is no more Il
the prime of life, with list o
achievements to his credit that would
do honor to one much older in years
and with tasks undertaken for ths
benefit of the community in which
he lived yet unfinished, he responded
to the call of his Maker.
Strong, active. well educated. pa
triotic. devoted to his home city and
county, benevolent, charitable and
intensely human, is there any wonder
that so many have come within his
influence and that practically every
man, woman and child within Gray
son County to-day is mourning the
loss of a personal friend? AS mat
ter of fact, this magic circle of
friendship included every walk OF
life, since the activities of this splen-
did young man had not been confined
to the law, in which he had been
specially educated, and in which he
had become distinguished, but -thrd
his banking connections he had an
extended acquaintance with the lead
erS in commercial lines throughout
the Southwest; as the moving spirit
in the building of homes for many
of his fellow townsmen, his benevo-
lent and paternal instincts had been
broadeneI; as an employer of labor
in tho telephone and other large cor
porations he had learned to take al
active interest in and sympathize
with their problems; as farmer and
breeder Of pure bred livestock his
genius lowered since more than all
he was lover of nature; in his home
he was still the affectionate sweet
heart of halcyon days.
Grayson County is poorer because
of Hayden Heads death but it is
richer for the heritage of the SPLEEN
did example that he has left behind
him for the emulation of his fellow
man. In an intensely practical way
he has demonstrated that it is posi-
BILE to be a well rounded man, with
time for business, for recreation, for
the home; that under the most OK
acting demands Of ones career, time
always may be found to study aud
solve those pressing community prob
lens that are never entirely absent;
that the practice Of the true princi-
rIes of Christianity is really insep- |
arabic from successful and honorable
pursuits.
Why shouldn'. such rare charac-
ter attract to him even the stranger; |
that those who first only admired |
him should have learned to trust him
and that this trust should have been
into love? No one will |
deny that as lawyer, banker, largo |
employer of labor and as community
builder he has earned the right to |
be forever known as our first citizen. |
If we were called upon to write the |
cpitaph OF this benefactor of Sher-
man. and Grayson County, with JU-
illus Caesar we would say:
His life was gentle and the elements |
So mixed in him that Nature might |
stanl Up
And say 10 all the world, This was
man!
To the wife of his bosom and to |
those lovely little children, two of
whom are of such tender years that
they cannot yet sense their loss, as
we'll as to the sorrowing father, sis
ter and brother, The Democrat ex-
tends it's coincidence, reminding them |
that their bereavement is communi-
ty sorrow and that Hayden Head has
not lived in vain While it is not |
given us to. peer beyond the veil of
the Unsuitable Providence, we must |
bow in humble submission to the will |
Of the all-wise Creator, believing that |
in the END all things work together |
for the glory of God and the welfare
IF umanity.-Sherman (Tex.) Dem |
Dcrat.