Chambers County AlArchives Obituaries.....Whitten, H. H. 1903
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The LaFayette Sun January 14, 1903

Resolutions of Respect.
Hall of Hickory Flat, Lodge F and A.M.
Stroud, Ala., January 1, 1903
	Whereas, the Grand Master of the Universe has seen fit to call from the 
labors of this life to the refreshments of life eternal our worthy and beloved 
brother, H. H. Whitten, and Whereas, this Lodge has not only sustained an 
irreparable loss, but the cause an able exponent, the community an upright 
citizen, Christ’s cause a pure advocate, the wife a loving husband, the 
children an affectionate father, and humanity a friend. Therefore be it
	Resolved by the Lodge that we, his brethren, take this method of 
expressing our grief at the decease of so good a man. That we extend our 
condolence to all the bereaved and especially his dear wife and children, that 
we request the LaFayette Sun to publish these resolutions, together with the 
appended sketch; that a copy of them be spread on our minutes and a copy framed 
and presented to his widow.
		W. E. Wilson, W. S. Johnson, P. C. Collier, Committee
H. H. Whitten was born in Harris County, Georgia, March 5th, 1851. In the year 
1876, in the strength of his young manhood, he gave himself to God, joining the 
Methodist church, of which he ever lived a consistent member to the day 
of his death, having served in the capacity of Steward, Sunday School 
Superintendent, etc., for a number of years.
	On January 4th, 1877, he was married to Miss Mollie E. Satterwhite, of 
his native county, and who still survives him. To this union were born two 
children, the eldest of whom, Mattie, is now the wife of a prosperous and 
respected young farmer, Mr. Robert L. Love. The other is Grady, a promising 
youth (of) 18 years.
	In 1881 Mr. Whitten moved from Georgia and settled in Alabama, where he 
made an acceptable citizen until removed by death, having efficiently served 
his county in the Legislature in ’92 and ’93. On the last day of the old year, 
1902, God brought this, what seemed to us, peaceful and happy life to a close 
on earth, we hope to begin a glad new year, such as mortal man has never seen, 
in a land where sickness, nor separations, nor death can come, but where 
the glory of God makes all things bright forever and forever.
	That he was a good man cannot be gainsaid. It is a memorable fact that 
while Mr. Whitten lived in the house with his father-in-law, the venerable Mr. 
Satterwhite for more than twenty years, not so much as an angry word 
escaped their lips – complimentary alike to both. Better than all, nor when the 
dread message came was he afraid to go, but – 
		“Calmly looked on either like, and here
		But nothing to regret, nor there to fear.”

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