SHUFORD MEMORIAL NUMBER THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT

Established 1899 HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY. MAY 9, 1912 Democrat and Press, Consolidated 1905

streamed through, itself lessened; ces. Still another was his readi- by the clouds outside, for Nature ness to help people, especially'-JOHN M. SHUFORD. herself was in a mournful mood, young men and start them in bus- and mingled her tears with those iness. 'Here is a letter thatjtjSplendid Citizen Passes Quietly DIES of not gives say. A. he SHUFORD human friends. Had it me comfort', would Away to His Rest. been a rainy day the congrega- It would be from some young tion outside would have been lar- whom he had helped to getst Mr. John M. Shuford died ger than the 200 or so who could a start in life. He believed inni May Ist at the Richard Baker not, as it was, get into the young men and has always toldd Hospital, which was built within SUDDENLY AT HIS HOME church. me that they yielded him the bestst che past year by his gifted son, ; Shuford, Grief bowed its head behind investments he ever made. He£ Or. J. H. He bad lin- When Mr. Chase went to Alaba- its black crape but Hope, the loved best to helpHhe old veter-r- *ered for long months with a negro assumed a sanctified; Dobson ma, the business was closed outj anchor in leif's storms, ans, and always sent a substi- i_ wasting disease, which pitiously Hickory's Giant Figure and one of the State's' look when he took the parson's horse. every tapped his strength. Nothing With the failure of the old throbbed and thrilled in tute to the reunion when he couldd Farewell to the old farm. It has sentence of the pastor's mes- not go himself. cheered him more h* his last days now passed into the hands of others. Schuler bank, Mr. Shuford asso- j. Greatest Captains of Industry Passes sage, and the fragrant flowers, Another ornament was his de- ' than visits from his brother May it be to them a pleasant home, j ciating with himself K. C. Men- massed in variegated glory, for sire for peace, and he lived thee Abel. to His Well Earned Rest?City He wa3 a powerful youth phys- zies, 0. M. Royster and others, three tiers high in front of the the beatitude that makes one a Mr. Shuford's pure kindly ically when he first came to Hick- organized the Citizens' bank, chancel, themselves the herald- child of God. face under a shock of snow- the forgot- Terribly Shocked Over ory in an unsuccessful effort t( vvhich was later merged into the ing archangels of Year's res- His CHURCH LIFE. white hair will never be trade. Therf urrection from the death of win- ton by those who knew him as learn the tanner's present First National bank. ter, in letters of beauty answered "In his church was where thee neighbor and citizen. He was an News of His Death. ire traditions afloat of his great) This was in 1890, and Mr. -Shu- "Yes" to life's greatest ques- beauty of his character was most)t industrious and successful busi- power to lift. ford remained its president until tion: "If a man die, shall he live strongly manifested. This churchh ness man and a modest but earn- again?" organized years ago privilege HIS WAR RECORD. lis death, Today it is one of was 43 andd est Christian. The rare Messers. he Hee enjoyed by few 2 DAYS AFTER HIS BROTHER JOHNi the strongest institutions in Rev. Harte of the was a charter member. men m this life FOLLOWS As no new boy was needed at Baptist and Garth of the Presby- never would consent to beingg was his of having his entire un- the tannery, he secured a position western North Carolina. terian churches were it the pul- made an elder, insisting that hee broken family grow up and ; neighbor An Immense Congregation Attended the Funeral Sunday Mornin; 48 clerk in the store of Lev Mr. Shuford was connected pit with Dr. Murphy and with could serve best as a deacon. Hee live to him till his most Rev. Messers, Peeler, of Lenoir always taught a Sunday school>1 death. Church, Many Coming Elias, father of the late Kopt vvith of the business in- at the Reformed from a Distance. terests of the city. He was and Rowe of Newton. The Re- class, and for the 22 years thatit The Reformed church was Elias. When the war came on. formed ministers, after the sing- been pastor he r filled to overflowing on president Hickory - I have never last he volunteered at the age of 19 of the ing of Nearer my God, to Thee, missed a service except whenn Thursday afternoon when the greatly enjoyed facturing Co.; Hickory Electric A CHRISTIAN SOLDIERJ Mr. Shuford in Co. F., 23rd N. C. Regiment, read Scripture lessons, when Dr. indisposed or absent from theeßfuneral was preached by his Bank, the recent Laymen's Missionary tie was quickly promoted to cor Co., and Shuford National Murphy offered the following city, and then he always made ittlpastor, Dr. Murphy, who had prayer: to Convention in Hickory and die )oral then ser- Newton; secretary and treas- a point give me his reason. l.fjbeen summoned from Classis at a Farm and by His and to second was always in on to perform He Came off In-j not miss a meeting. battle, urer the Ivey Mill Co., and "Oh, God, our Father, and the He chutvh thee|3t. Matthews church geant. In his first of coldest or the hottest day or theellthis last sad honor, as he was dustry and Ability Made a Great; While Mr. Shuford had Granite Falls Mfg. Co.; God and Father of our Lord and accum- Williamsburg:, he carried thf treasurer Savior Jesus Christ, we look to darkest night. summoned again a few days lat- Which was Invested >{ Co., Fortune inj ulated a splendid fortune by hi? 30 ors of the regiment. Tbrougf the A. A. Shuford Mill Thee, rejoicing in the great love "The other day he became e ar to do. Nearly all the Chief Industries of business ability, his greatest in- Pines, the Seven Days md director of the Piedmont thou hast manifested toward us tired and went to sleep, wakingg The following is a biography Seven up presence Onlyy 3f Mr. prepared by his vestment, he always declared, campaignto Cold he went >Vagon and Mfg. Co.; Dudley in providing redemption through in the of God. Shuford This City and Section?His Great- Harbor a few days before he had said too brother, Rev. Julius H, Shuford, was in young men. A score of Shoals Mills, the blood of Christ. We thank est Investment was in Young Men Sere he was wounded. He re- Cotton First Nat- for manifesting Thy father- his brother, 'John, cheer up. Youu }fKing's Creek, in his book "A these, at least, Thee he started into turned in time for Fredericks- lional Bank, of Morganton; Jef- ly care for us, and that Thou will get better and we will gcc Historical Sketch of the Shuford Beautiful and Just Tribute Paid by among careers of usefulness, burg and Chancellorsville. At ferson Standard Life Insurance hast revealed to us that there over into Alexander county to0 Family." Dr. Murphy. them such men as the Chases, Gettysburg was one of Greensboro fire remaineth a rest for the people the Springs and take a good 1 Shuford. he wounded and Co.; the long together.' John M. 24 hours after at- of Huntsville, Ala.; Mr. C. E. captured, and was held at Pt companies; of God, and a life beyond this rest The broth- t- Less than insurance the Lenoir ers indeed have gone off togetherj- John M. Shuford is a son of Jacob Graham, of Greenville, S. C.; Mr. Vale of Tears, better, sweeter, tending the funeral of his broth- Lookout for 21 months. He was Telephone Exchange. nobler, purer, and where all is to rest forever in that rest thatt |H. Shuford. Jacob EL Shuford is a A. A. Whitener, of this city. Hi? jxchanged, on a years [ laon of Jacob Shuford, who died in er John, Mr. Abel A. Shuford. and was home i He was also for a direc good and upright and true, and remains to the people of God,t ,1 11844. Jacob Shuford is a son of Mart- Hickory's premier citizen died judgment in this line of invest- furlough when the war closed. | tor in the Morganton Hospital, where there is no need of the.' and they are drinking from those jv « n Shuford, who died in 1780. Martin suddenly ot heart failure as he ment seemed to be as accurate During a truce between the i and Catawba and Claremont col- physical sun, because the glory! springs of living water that flow light thereof. We out from the throne into theelshuford is a son of John Shuford, who reclining on a lounge as in buying cotton or selling and Confederate pickets leges. of God is the 1790, was up-| Yankee | thank the iriver of life." \u25a0died in home, one o'clock yarns. And letters of gratitude Thee for all sweet; ? Shuford born in Cataw- in his at ince, package of t I John was stairs he took a J Mr Shu ford was a Democrat from promises of Thy word, full off After a tender prayer by Mr. M. last Friday. from these men who told him of obacco in his teeth, and swam 5 principle and was intensely interested comfort and the assurance of Thyj [Rowe, the choir sang Lead, -1 Sba County, N. C., March 9, 1847. 4 successful farmer in He had not gone to the bank their triumphs made one of the co the middle of a river, to swap in the success of his party. He ai- love, and that Thou hast said: I Kindly: Light, and the servicessgHis father was a grave. County, N. C. John M. as usual, complaining of not chief pleasures of his life. it for a bag of coffee, which an rways spent election day at the polls for am the ressurrection and the] were concluded at the jgCatawba >n was raised upon his father's equally daring party, never begging men to vote life; he believeth on All the children and grandchildren ßshuford feeling very well. At one o'- One of the leading business Federal soldier SJhis that Mej j 17 years of age he be- wam out with. nrespnce was a great lev- never die'; were present. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon H.I llarm. When men of Hickory was saying when his verv shall and that 'When Confederate clock he was seized with a sud- thou passeth through the waters! ;Cilley, and children, of Philadelphia,a Bcame a soldier in the den rigor. Mrs. Shuford i:he*sadnews ofhis death flashed! i Will b3 With the.' farrived Sunday morning at 7 o'clock.i.BArmy. He was captured at the fall of over the city, that there was thank Thee for the Thcre was some confusion over a tele Fort Fisher December 25 1864 and with him, and at once had theb t>| "We beauti-I was held prisoner of war until June day bankruptcy Of fidelity ram which led them to think they were as a physician summoned but in threes when was star- t'ul life and usefullnessi& when he returned home departed brother. rcceivin & a delayed message about Mr. 20 1895 spirit ing him in the face. One thou- of our Wef Deing minutes the had 'thank Thee for his influence fort John Shufords death. The funeral had released from prison. sand dollars would save him but became to that part of the from the fetters of the body, anoj| jgood, for his wonderful tender-| therefore to be postponed till Sunday He heir up the limit farm upon which his parents lived and was a-wing to the heavenly Ine had borrowed to ness Of heart and spirit; that he*from Saturday at 3p.m.as at first ar- home?| farmed and farmed and took care of Hvhen Mr. Shuford heard of it among ran £ed- to join the departed brother. iived us and that we can^ their last days. - 'them during Mr, jne called him into his back office, Ik 9 11 inherit the legacy Of his life,! Mrs Shuford was on the arm of the Shuford seemed to have son r While farming on the old home- grace to and ol^est > - A- Shuford, jr., and about jlistented to his statement of hi. 'Give throw thinef considered one of the a slight apprehension hiflf arms around these weeping OneS,fj the others were Dr. and Mrs. H. c. stead he was ise and then himself endorsee " Catawba County N. C. K-, - - - best farmers in condition, as he had expressed: ! JjEm ljj§|||| , . -j-gty. enable them say. 'The Lord? Menzies » Mr and Mrs - B B Biackwei- note -J© and Some time after the death of his the hope to his physician, Dr. H.U re for the needed $l,OOO. gave and the Lord hath der, Mr. and Mrs, James C. Shuford, and I taken? parents he moved to Hickory N. C. C. Menzies, that the latter wouldLj CAME OFF A FARM. /£§ n\ iaway, blessed be the name of| Misses Rosa CampbeH and Mary Camp- Lord. Shuford. for the purpose of educating his child- not have to go far out in the'rl Shuford was the son of !the ]bell ren. His two daughters were educat- ?'Bear »:p, too, in Thy SOME OF THOSE PRESENT country during the day. | Jacob H. and Catherine Shuford comfortj ed at Claremont College Hickory N. this great Congregation. Were-jl The active pall-bearers were Messrs. A CITY'S GRIEF. iMr.and was born on their farm fivej all his friends. We re member | A s Abemethy, K. c. Menzies, J. L. January 13 1870 he married Alice miles south of Hickory. He had! * The news struck the city like ill 18 member his business oC ia teS t j Bowles, George F. Ivey, N. Wilson a daughter of Maj. Wilson for a thunderbolt, and it was well-; that grandest of training lift-1 the COnSlStory of hIS Church, his^fg Dasher, Judge W. B. Councill and of Catawba County N. C. There are Sunday class, from communion School and his . nigh dumb-tounded in the which comes I own.| w c Feimster , of Newton four children of this marriage. The ?> ? Hvf; family. Let grief. with? the morning star, when a! IS immediate pionorar y : p. G. Moore, Granite Falls, children are: Ada C. Shuford, Carroll of sudden It went with hear thy words; fe believe must needs rise before thf in| Dr John McCa mpbeU, I. I. Davis, Shuford, Suehonor Shuford and Jacob the wings of the wind. The elec- \ lad g God; believe also in Me. Igo togp Dr* ihnford, day the stock;! Scroggs, Morganton, Ander- over crack of to feed place for you. It wi.ll . trie current flashed it the; prepare a on Richmond j. G . Hali, Lenoir; A. Since John Shuford has been living wires, and it was amazing howd jjfrom drinking the sweet wate not be SO long till He Will .Link and Dr. W. H. Nicholson, Hickory N. he has been farming j be at C. soon the suburbs and the countrya of the spring out of a calabash;! igain and we will all reunited| Hickory and merchandising and has been suc- Iga with Him. from ticklingithe fertile fields in forever e| some of th e out-of-town attendents cessful m both. were ringing the centers of thei j praise to Him who Jive the I were Mrs. R U sSe il Sh err ill, of Raleigh; He and his wife and children are city for particulars. Men (to borrow Jerrold's figure) with His hlood, Amen. stood® washed us in an( jMrs j Craig, Statesviiie; of the Reformed church of plow hoe till they laughed hymn \u25a0 members in groups on the street, and and After the f, ! Paul Allen and Thomas Stewart, Char- U« S. He was deacon in the Reform- righteous he dies ,\u25a0< spoke of it with sad countenan- with a harvest. the when iotte; Arther Ingold, Morganton; J. G. ed church at Bethel for many years. the home place, Rev. J. H, Shu- 0m M. Courtney, Dr. Kent, is the church Where he was ces, and the universal word from Of o i Hall, M. A. A. This years ago wrote this tender 1 Kl. 7:22, and Rev, 3:12. where his parents worship- one to another was: "I have lost ford some | Dr c B McNairy, Maj. G. w. F. Har- raised and description: And upon top of the j H Bea n, Lenoir; W. B. Gaither, ped in their day. He held the office of a friend." lilywork. e mster Crowell, Reformed church at THE was F i > A. H. Mrs. deacon in the Mr. Shuford's great strength FARM ON SOUTH FORK- Him that overcometh will S. now RIVER, ABEL ALEXANDER SHUFORD. IBFTAIPH L. Little, Byron Shuford, H. Hickory for some years. He of other days had been waning make a pillar in the temple of and Mrs. F. M. wniiams, New- (1901) lives at Hickory N. C. His God, January 16 1851. during recent months, though I learn from the Piedmont Press that! erof influence, For 15 or 20 years he P ton; P. G. Moore, J. M. Allred, D. H. wife was born | In Prof. Hahn's book, "The! said the oldest daughter :he old farm has been sold and passed! executive com- The references here he were| Warlick , Granite Falls . c F C iine and Ada Catherine few knew it. He went about hi>| Soldier," Mr, Henry was chairman of the a pillar temple, M. Wilson Shuford jut of the family. Permit me to utterp Catawba P,§ and it was in those to of the which]w A WariiCk, Gilkey; L. H. Baithis of John and Alice systematic routine as usul,a to! mittee of the county strong and beautlful-I 9 1780 and was i few parting words suggested by Rudisill says that he and fives was at once and c E Carpenter, Gastonia, and Mr. was born November to. office, etc., the| palmy days that Catawba was the ban- building a bank. mill and! iy ornamented. In nd . G eo. S. Asheville. married to G. Harvey Geitner on the Dpcasion. The farm came into the? other men, getting scattered at ner Democratic county of North Caroli- |T Mrs Powell, unerringl | character two things were essen-1 August 1892 by the Rev. J. lent his cool, quick, \u25a0hands of my father by descent from hisp suddenly found j) When the county first went Re- Among the floral tributes, the 17th of Chancellorsville, na. tial, strength>and lily work Mr. Geitner is a Penn- judgment to the solution of the! \u25a0father and it was the home of my|j he sent a telegram to his life- pirst National Bank sent a beau- L. Murphy. I3LD themselves within the enemy's publican j born at Lan- marriage! I sylvanian and was Lititz, dav's problems. Iparents from the time of their long friend and associate, on the Mor- u;j? fVm of lilies and roses; business Tues-| picket continues: "Wej ere wv? rhlwreath caster County of that State and belong- ito the time of their death. Eleven! lines. He g.inton Hospital board, Mr. J. P. Cald- ? »^?hrnthpri the Shuford Bank in Newton and day before his death he attended enemy's tian life of the departed brother J ed to the well known Moravian com- Bchildren were born to them on this* saw two of the pickets well, editor of the Charlotte Observer, jvey cotton mill, American at Morganton a meet- de the strength of munity which is noted for the thrift directors ifarm, eight of whom are still living. lying behind a log sighting, ready > asking if there was room for him in inherited pious|g eauty roses; chase Bros ,of Al- ing of But ancesters. This kind of life j & and substantial character of its mem- the State Hospital. I The old plantation was at its best inj at us; one of us Mecklenburg, as he did not see how he had| a^ a anc Whitener to shoot (aj been lived be the five bers. he knew the sun was lowering to Ithe days of negro slavery. It was a| could live in a Republican county. ?^ a purple wreath; Hickory prominent man of this county), j of the family whom he had een On coming to North Carolina Mr. western and ghome for the blacks, and I doubt not| There was a great deal of this quiet |Eiectric Co. a crescent; Shuforo the horizon, had thej fired and shot one of the pickets lay Geitner who was but a boy settled with lit is a dear spot to the surviving ser| humor in the man. _ __§Hdw. Co. an upright piece; San- feeling that his summons would! in forest.God makes in the town of flvants who labored on it. through the head and killed hi ml Faith & Orr, Charlotte, a wreath, his father's family Hick- come as quickly as In 1873 he married Miss Alda strong. As a young mana ory, identified himself with the that of hisl It saw the departure of the boys in| instantly. He felt very Abel]..,besl(les scores 010f othersotners * He sorry| V. Campbell, the beautiful and A. heeded the call Wagon Company of that father and one of his sisters.! Hgray, who went forth to establish theS having a man, Shuford tog Piedmont Con for killed or| attractive a daughter of Dr. O. arms of his country but before| COLORED FRIENDS' KINDLY town. There is little doubt that gjindepende *ce of the Southern | knowing that he had! Campbell eight to return of? rather of Newton and going to the field he went old! OFFICES. On settling in Hickory he connected shock of his brother John's! gfederacy, and witnessed the gladdened lovely kneeling their . who sleeps in a soldier's killed a man, and begged me not| children Bethel church, and beg himself with the Reformed church and death two days before helped Ball save one, home. One, Archie Campbell, consecrated his life! The steel vault encasing the to!igrave on the battle ground of the to tell it on him at home." And| tore the altar has served the congregation as a ruling died in childhood. to Pcasket was lowered into its place is one of the most hasten the end. \u25a0Wilderness. There was rejoicing on it was never told in print that God. elder and liberal it| He had convictions and! by ten colored men, who were supporters. A \u25a0the old farm when those boys came who THE FUNERAL. the STRANGE COINCIDENCE. was Mr. Shuford tired thatjj purpose of a strong man. One! glad to have their part in the The children of Mr. and Mrs. Geit- Ehome, such as filled the home of the always! ministry of love, by Dr. J. L. Murphy, pastor of his shot. His tender heart The immensity of the crowd, mark was bis fidelity. He was| last sad and ner are John George who was born Hprodigal son when he returned to special request of family the the deceased, and whom he loved river, hated the thought, though it was* the beauty of the tribute paid open to convictions but once set-1 the June 15 1893 and Frances Royer who giather. The farm was near the following men filled the £ nd place ii self-defence, too. the by his old pastor,"the tied he could not easily be moved.! colored was born July 10 1896 confided in, as in few others, jjwhose waters afforded a pleasant war, and dead grave: George Feimster, Sam wavered from c his po-| Shuford was March was at the bathing. Besides the bathing, the sympathy of the prayers, the He never Carroll M. born summoned once from Sfor glory flowers, all went to- and religious convictions.! Brown, Lee Gaither, Frank 22 1872. took a course of phar- meeting \u25a0boys hunted the rabbit by day and the AFTER THE WAR. of the litical Davis, and Ivey Scott. He of the Reformed Church the ser- He was strong because he wasi Bost, Tom macy at Maryland College Balti- Sopossum by night. These were gether to make funeral x the church, ourj Mr. Shuford and A. L, Shu- | The rain had ceased and the a drug Classis at St. Matthews in the happy past. The vice at 10:30 Sunday morning in sincere. mere Md, He owns store and ienjoyments his brother, went into strength in were lifting when the 14 miles distant, in Lincoln home of hospitality. ford, thej the Reformed church an event His was seen the jclouds is a successful business man. His Hold farm was the the beauty was lowered to its place, He county. Joe Murphy went there a resting place mercantile business after the. never to-be forgotten in Hicko- business world. But home is in Hickory N. C. has Mr. BThe traveler found life, lilywork, was covered with flowers, and place. Carroll for and the poor were war and later William H. Ellis; ry. The first six seats in the of his its seenland a fine home at that his father, whom he fouud gat night, benevolences, and clear, sweet notes of a wooo married Miss Elizabeth Chris- on from its doors empty. The became a partner under the name centre were reserved for the in its whogthe Shuford the floor of Classis, making \u25a0turned family. Everywhere was a caa hasn't been helped by him? grobin rang out at intervals from tine Zahring of Columbia Mo. July 14 \u25a0words of the Savior, "The poor ye & trees this of Ellis Shuford, and when Mr. sympathetic faces, ornament was hislthe dripping greenery of the 1898. statement: \u25a0always have with you" were true in of dim under "Another That Ellis eventually retired, H, D. glass I have been his pas-jalmost as if Mrs. was a teacher Mr. A. A. Shuford had place. There the minister of the the beautiful stained win- tenderness. of the bell that Carroll Shuford \u25a0that Abernethy the Sower, the tor for 22 years and Inever heardSbeen the echoes of science in Claremont College and is stated that if Classis would raise \u25a0Gospel was received with reverence and Herbert Chase dows of Master tolling in the knocking at the door, and thei him say an unkind word. Hejhad just ceased its $5,000 for Catawba CoMege he '\u25a0due his sacred calling. The children entered the company, which belfry across the town. (Continued on last page.) »| Co, Good Shepherd, as the soft light l i was most guarded in his utteran-Ichurch would add to it the same amount. \u25a0were quiet in presence, and became the A. A. Shuford I