Obituary for Dr. B. O. Masterson, Colbert, Alabama

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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.