Calhoun County AlArchives Obituaries.....Mellon, William Edward, Jr. October 20, 1931
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The Anniston Star, Anniston, Alabama - 1931
(Letters to the Editor)
Subject: William Edward Mellon Jr.

To The Anniston Star:

When a worthwhile man passes, the public likes to know more of the life that 
was lived.  The honored record deserves tribute, I think it not out of place 
for me at this time to say something of the late W.E. Mellon, who passed at 
his home in Oxford, on the night of October 20, 1931. I had with him an 
acquaintance that ran through many years.  I think I knew the real man, his 
life and the impulses that guided it.

By nativity he was a Georgian.  His first birthday was February 7, 1850, and 
Corinth, in Troupe County was the little town in which his baby eyes first saw 
the world.  As he was merging into manhood he came with his parents to Calhoun 
County, Ala., his father, William Edward Mellon (Sr.), acquiring the home near 
DeArmanville, now occupied by Judge and Mrs. M.S. Applegate, she being a niece 
of his.  Sixty years was the period of his residence with these people.

Upon marriage he acquired and settled on a farm near the old home, now the 
famous Mellon Apple Orchard, property that is still in the family.  Oxford, 
not far away, was his town.  Thirty-two years ago, he became a resident of 
that place.  There his good wife, Mrs.Sarah Ella (Foster) Mellon, passed July 
12, 1925.  The children who survive are several namely: William Foster Mellon 
(Foster), Robert Edward Mellon (Ed), Samuel A. Mellon (Sam) and J. Thomas 
Mellon (Tom) of Oxford; Mrs. James F. Brittain(Neva), of Oneonta; Mrs. Groce 
Hubbard (Nelle Gray), of Talladega, and Miss Betty Mellon, of Oxford.  They 
are model men and model women - respected and honored because of what they are.

And the man Mellon, what manner of man was he? Financially, he was success.  
His obligations were as good as currency.  But those things were not the best 
parts of his life.  Loyalty to friends, to principle, to community, to county 
and to home, were his high points.  He appreciated friends help.  He drew 
others to him as he demonstrated what friendship meant.  He wanted good 
neighbors.  He set the example by being one himself.  He believed in a 
citizenship of progress and of law and order.  He acted the part in his daily 
life.  In politics, he was the Democrats.  He looked upon this as the part of 
and for the masses, and that explains why it had his sympathy and support.  
His home life was idyllic, strong in body, firm in convictions, positive in 
nature, yet, about the fireside he was as gentle as a woman.  It has been said 
of him that he seldom, if ever, used the rod, yet, the children who grew up 
about him, obeyed, respected and loved.

At his funeral there were many flowers, many friends, many words about the 
good man that W.E. Mellon had been.

He sleeps in the cemtery at DeArmanville, not far from his first home in 
Alabama - not far from the famous orchard that bears his name.

He lives in the minds of those who knew him, cherished for what he was and 
lamented as a departed friend.

Charles F. Douglass

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