Obituary for Dr. B. O. Masterson, Colbert, Alabama http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pug/usgenweb/al/colbert/obits/m/bomasterson.txt ==================================================================== USGENWEB PROJECT NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store this file permanently for free access. File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Darlene (Campbell) Scott < scottkids99@aol.com > ==================================================================== March 2003 Transcribed February 2003 by Darlene (Campbell) Scott Death Notice Dr. B. O. Masterson - Colbert County Alabama April 1881 Condensed Telegram Death Notice - Masterson Grover, ALA April 7 - We regret to chronicle the death of Dr. B. O. Masterson, of Lawrence County, who died on Thursday the 26, day of April 1891, at the age of 61 years. His funeral will be soon with Masonic honors. He leaves a wife and several children and grand children to morun his death. They have the deep sympathy of the community in their sad bereavement, but their loss is his battle, his race is run and he is crowned at last. In many respects Dr. Masterson was and extraordianary man. In friendship his attachement were strang and binding. No outside influnce could shake his confidence in, but a wilful and direct betrayal of trust caused him to lose confidence in the individual for all time to come. He was honest, sympathizing in his nature, liberal in an enterprise that won his approval. Energetic, diligent, faithful, he was trusted and honored by all who knew him. Firm in his determinations, correct in his judgement, deep and penetrating in his investigations, he seareely ever failed in his under taking. No one went to him for advice, even through a known enemy, but that it was given from afirm conviction of his heart, wheather in business or politics. But Dr. Byron O. Masterson is no more. We mourn and praise him and his many noble qualities of head and heart. " At most living memory endures for a hundred years or so. Thereafter, even the barest outline of the past is forgotten, unless it is recorded in writing..." John Morris in Londinium: London in the Roman Empire, p. 205.