Marion-Lamar County AlArchives Obituaries.....Stanford, Andrew J.  (A. J.) November 18, 1894
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Hamilton Free Press, Nov 22, 1894 
From Hamilton Free Press, Nov 22, 1894 - pg 2

IN MEMORIUM
It becomes our sad duty to announce the death of our friend and townsman, A. J. 
Stanford. He died about 9:30 p.m. Sunday Nov. 18, 1894, at his residence in 
Hamilton after an illness of sixteen days.  From the first his disease, 
erysipelas, took an alarming turn, and was soon followed by blood-poisoning.  
Everything possible was done to arrest the progress of the disease, but to no 
avail, and finally the attending physician announced that there was no hope.  
His aged mother, brothers and sisters were summoned to his bedside where they 
remained until death came.  He suffered the most excruciating pain all through 
his illness but bore it all with much patience and was resigned to death.
	The deceased was born in Lamar county January 8, 1858 and came to 
Hamilton in 1886 to practice his profession, the law.  During the eight years 
he lived with us he made many friends by his close attention to business and 
his honesty and integrity in all business relations.  He leaves a wife and six 
little children to struggle with life’s battles and mourn their sad loss, but 
they grieve not as those who have no hope for when death came he was ready.  He 
was buried last Tuesday morning in the cemetery at this place with the honors 
of masonry, the funeral service being conducted by Rev. J. W. WHITE, of 
Hackleburgh.  A large concourse of sorrowing friends followed the remains to 
their last resting place where they will repose until the morn of the 
resurrection.
	In his death, a kind husband and loving father has been removed, and 
our town loses one of its best and most highly respected citizens, but his 
bereaved family and friends are left with the sweet hope that they can see him 
again in the home of the saints, for he left evidence that he was at peace  
with God.  When asked as to how he felt concerning the future, he replied that 
he was not afraid to die; that he was trusting in god and would die with 
faith.  At the trying moment no cloud hovered over his couch between him and 
his Savior.  He suffered untold misery in the flesh, but freed from its 
tenement of clay his spirit winged its way to the beautiful home beyond, where 
sickness, and death are unknown .
	Peace to his memory and may the Ruler of Heaven who knows and directs 
all things for the best, look down and guard and protect his wife and 
fatherless children. 

ALSO:
From the Hamilton Free Press, December 13, 1894 - pg 2

TRIBUTE OF RESPECT
	To the Worshipful Master Wardens and Brethern of Hamilton Lodge NO. 344:
	Whereas it has pleased an all-wise God to call from labor to 
refreshments in the Celestial Lodge above, our brother, ANDREW J. STANFORD, who 
was born in Lamar county, Ala, Jan 8 1858.  He professed religion when a boy, 
and later on in life he attached himself to the M. E. Church South, of which he 
remained a member until the time of his death.  He was married to Miss VICTORIA 
LACY Nov. 2nd, 1882.  He was raised to the sublime degree of Master mason of 
Hamilton Lodge NO. 344.  In the year 1892 he served as Junior Warden and 
Worshipful Master in the year 1893.  He remained a true and faithful brother 
until the Tyler Death severed the ties which bound him to the craft.
	Whereas, by the death of brother ANDREW J. STANFORD, on the 18th day of 
November 1894, this Lodge and the Masonic Fraternity have lost one of its most 
consistent and honorable members, his wife a loving husband, his children a 
kind and affectionate father, and the community a good and useful man.
	Whereas, there are no further designs on his trestle board the mallet 
of death having called him from labor to refreshments above.
	Resolved, 2nd.  That we extend to his heart stricken wife and six 
little children our sincere and affectionate sympathy in this their bereavement.
	Resolved 3rd.  That we earnestly commend them to the care and 
protection of the Masonic Fraternity.
	Resolved 4th. That we mourn the loss of our brother and will ever 
cherish his memory in our hears.
	Resolved 5th.  That those resolutions be spread upon the minutes of 
Hamilton Lodge and a copy be sent to the Masonic Guide, the Marion County News, 
and the Hamilton Free Pres for publication.
	Resolved 6th.  That a copy of each paper containing these resolutions 
be sent to his wife, mother, brother and sister.
	ALBERT J. HAMILTON, ROBERT W. CASHION, JASON P. FORD, Committee






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