Wilcox County AlArchives Obituaries.....George M. Pharr July 1903
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Wilcox Progressive Era, Thursday, July 16, 1903

Obituary.
George M. Pharr was born in Canton Bend, Ala., March 31st, 1829, and 
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Northrup in Selma. The parents 
of Mr. Pharr were pioneers in this county, settling in Canton Bend 
when the country was comparatively an unbroken wilderness. He grew up 
in the halcyon days of Alabama when every planter was a King, every 
home a palace, when culture and refinement were the prerequisites of 
good society. Receiving a finished education and endowed with every 
requisite that constitutes a man and a gentleman he passed his long 
life of three fourths of a century beloved by all who knew him, a 
shining example of the true Christian and of unswerving honor and 
integrity. As man and boy the writer knew him for fifty years, 
listened often to his chaste and elegant language in conversation, in 
church and in the school room. On his character the shadow of a 
scandal never fell, no man could truthfully accuse him of any act 
unbecoming a Christian and a gentleman. A good man has passed away and 
the good that he did lives after him; while his death has saddened our 
hearts the recollection of his pure life and sterling qualities will 
always "gild a spot in memory's waste." His sorrowing children and 
friends know that beyond the veil that separates the two eternities is 
a home of endless peace over the threshold of which he has passed.


Additional Comments:
Additional article Wilcox Progressive Era, Thursday, July 9, 1903
We regret to learn of the death of Mr. G. M. Pharr which occurred in 
Selma and he was buried last week in Canton Bend.


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