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f. the jlum-com-sub-AnyitiongstukerightULife’s Fitful Fever O’er, He Sleeps Well.yyinforState* y »»r vote, »f 21r.9ivuitMur*ffiee.u*rulter ?: ionnrc*theieektthewe i ter era Mr Sirof uni Ii* »ii hi.. IOl i'Mwilli 'uiihthlW*»rtin*fMJffTl*tlll■Vi«ild?CAPTAIN WILLIAM ELZY POPE’S LONG, USEFUL LIFEhev | iagi-COMES TO AN END IN COLUMBUS ON FRIDAY AFTERNOONbe• IM r.of liihhvillaMu.Tnete\Me.WallM. I I.O»‘ it* * vvlt;MThe Inexorable Reaper, Fierce Spirit Of The Glass \nd Scvthe, Calls I pon Aped \nd Ksteenu*d n ..1 is :tormiditerCitizen To Pay The Debt All Must Sooner Dr Later Pay.—Mas A Confederate Veteran. And For Seventy Years A Faithful Member Of The First Presbyterian ChurchOf Columbus. — His Passing Drought Sorrow To Our City.OtPMiteMithefortInst• if oit HUMqimliciUnoneourinKPSjuftt ftjid to mo, 'I'apbiitt 1'opo, you are now oh tin? shady Hide of eighty-MaA loved, re*lKstled, familiar figure During the Civil War, Caftan other. But I have nlt; fear* with re* has panned forever from our sight [01K? spfved in the Sixth Miariftrippi srord to the future. God knuwr.* IOne whose nature was perennially Cavalry. He volunteered for wrvhe have many time* * tumbled and fab *jok« Dleawmt; one who*c voice wa# ever th Confad*ffcte Amy an(l ,efl- |cn, hnl llhv,iy.. Ull, t.v#rriull|n|f nnm whirl fraught with kindly greeting* and, _ * thrirwords of wise counsel; one whose Coluabuy with fbhtiwl Ishio.. (,. liar- have bum ben, ath me io Ml m. lo | ( ,presence was welcome any olaiV S'MwW*s nwiwml He was u slcuilfast ,u '•*'*•* «(?•“»■any time, Captain William Elay I’ope. and courageous soldier of the South, , hlt;‘ ''aJ !'V 0,1[has passed into the great beyond, lie ntld bravely defended the tied Cross ' wt' !iU ' ‘the | h«H answered the call of the lion- .darted Stonewall Jackson, and ha* ' a*’ Apassed over the river to rest under Captain Pope was a consecrated five* a ran t you?' 1 told him no; that he shade of the trees.M loyal member of the rri?#byUui«n I was on ti e uuriy -ide, the • i«U m tMan, whose knowledge is finite, Church for seventy years- At th- to the kW world.-the! says he Is dead. W* transition, and for a num- In arm I Service**fOU God, whose knowledge is infinite, her of years previously, lie v.asn trio Funeral - i m. • were held y. der- ,y r, lies says-he yet lives. He thou faitliful tee of the First Presbyterian Chunk day aft.-imam at the First Fiv-bv , |unto death, and I will give thee *11 t,f Columbus. In his church relations, leriaii lt;liuivb, and were c-ondintrd by |im. .crown of life, said One who knows ®* in his dev.tmn to his rountry. \u the Hev. .le,..- c. If,.wan. The r. „ften I all things. family and hi friends, he was noted ninja* wen laid I., rest in pHciidjihi|ian-' Captain Pope bad a long, useful, always for ►' n.-t fidelity. A one of ' eWelrry. Th. honorary pall bear- in , |uen- eventful life. Ho enjoyed his three bis brother Coi 'ederate* said of him were: Mr S B, Street, Sr., Col- ,„|Alainity score and tyi, then another decade when the «ew. ..f his passing beeame «nel « 1. Lincoln; • olorud W. I».tumln-be| was added to his span, and then tin* known, He w;, a man you could at- Humphries General T T. Sykr-. Col- taksm of major part of another ten. He lack- ways count on.'' ouel Janie, f. Harrison, and Mr. !•« !ix Livinumajor pariin ed but a f*?u years of being ninety On .several o l« don*. nglt;* ciept Gunter, The ac tive pall hi ;»rei i* \in- when the voico front on high whisper-,on* Captain Pop* had ex|ire*w'd Ut hi* wt?re: Mi* K. 8. Moore, Mr. Frank brouv. 1 fid• in his ear: “You »ri* tired, now, non the hope that he would go quick- !'■ Phillip.-.. Mr, VV. IL Harrington. Mr h„.M1a; so tired. Tto length of your yen*1* b ly when hi* nmmoh« should lomi* ? V\’. Ekon**, Mi . Jiu-.k Morgan and Lad l»many. There's a maimion (i u in H® had a dread of a tottg III • Mr, U^dynrd \ Vaughan. mittjIHoaven. Como honu I r*J*r ^aa ah^wofted IF pab«ed Th*- d -'am ominitt^o was complt;»-iy The eye* that had been «rf,8ed for away without .iti hour'* lUmr arid, c l lt;*f the f«diowing named ladm |f|,.aday4 beeausg of wearinea* brought on without a mon- nt m pain. Hw go Mr*. Frank U Phillip**, Mr*. C. WP,(,f by the irdirmith s of ago* were sealed iW was like falling od.-rp. or a^ a j Kvah.s, Mr* I I! flatchcdl, Sr., nUdiC.I in death. The noble old heart vea^wl rinck running own. Ti^rr v o n • Mr**. L I-. Wdkinson,hath rattle in hi:- At the ctumh atwl nt the cemetery.%’fkkc^l)„u- IIjjk I to beat. The body liecanie rigid in death agony, i |u, the icy grip of dlfteolutinn am! the throat St ba nl spirit winged its flight into the realm oh in moth, an bryond the -tarn. lulls than C*^ William Rlay Pope was horn in th# arm.*- of i n* Florence. Ala., October 2d, l^'it. three score c he hence, had ho livtfl t«» the *20th «»f hin iniHf.. e. October of the present year, he would CapUiij fN.pvr have been eighty-right year* of age unobtmrivc 0j He carne to Cobxmbtia in his 1h» tenor of hi*» wi rr hood, living hen? the rvim»imk*r of hi*, but always \s p4. life, with the exception of th* yeai and ready to • t|l he spent in fighting for the lights of up the fallen the Southern State* it? the* Confed-[ fnthur. he : 1p j crate AlOy. _ * ijlll^priap i au-in In April, JHdO, Captain I’ftfie was soldier of the « [.j; married to Uin Fatmle f*atirr^rmt of her of the chi' [j. thin city. sW died in July, 1901, and iof the South, e. h« remaimat a widower for mote than fritftd, he n twenty yearn. Tlt;i thin union three'that wan ex;« dchildren wtrr Wn, all of whom are ver«*tUm with w j*4411 living. They are: Mf, W. P. linc^, « mhotiJ P*»p«, of f*olumbu«; Mr*. C-. «i. Bar- Caprain Pop* jney, of New York; Mr Annie Tut. bming my *tn wilef*1 of Rork Hill, S. C. *f;hri«tmai*, bu^Mr.ti#p tof Kai eafetth mg HBam*. ■I—I Lantvs itcieaui ra«M»aver fell ap up- n large concourw? of sorrowing rvF breast more peace• and trier,d« /^sembled to honordtt PpJM* frit afirrp In j the memory «»f t nptaut l!ppe. There• God ill whom, for wen* only u few dry eye* in the and ten. hr hfui put I' hureh h? the sers ices wen? rondacrt**d .c,nr his lifcWfc form, and many WB'i Qniet, iioFdest, 1 'i ll at the ei'iuc tcry aa the twdy• pursued “ihe men was romdgned to it« latat rating i without arifi^hneplace. Ami a* the sorrowing thronghands outstretched leaving the earthly tene-p the pecdv and lif* mrnl ot fht* gtiOil nu*ii to r*jt m ..fih uAs a hu*hi*tid and pcan until the rnoming of the n»* Ismy. ypnnially kind, ph a*- 'urr^tion. rfothtng rould Ihj **-en ««f anriaffectKiiiatc- Ai a hi* opulchrV aarc a maoMVe hunk *»f li.tn,*’ Galeracy, a tnewi- t^autiful and fiagfant fhiWtfrH thftt■ of (ii«h ;i* a citizen j h'Vjrg linriN had triuieriy laid Upon -f a* a r.rigfthor and hia grovr; th/wer«i that, in £h«*ir itn\ up fully to all b©auty. Were typical of the rugny •*df of hini^ In con-writer of the** fie before Chiiatma t. nw “I am wtead%■ \h. I may thi»I will Mvcf iw an-irf.mu ~ «uU1 wahe pi‘rforrnfKj whi *eary way* of men, and their « r«ft»antihic the element otMKlt;kbyfaith \n G.rd ih a part of th*fr^m fp and5Jth. Wt of hrt
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Columbus Dispatch
Columbus, Mississippi, US
Sun, Jan 15, 1922
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