Carroll County GaArchives Obituaries.....Mandeville, Appleton June 17 1892
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Candace Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 September 11, 2004, 5:06 am

Atlanta Constitution Newspaper

The Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia Saturday June 18, 1892 
Carrollton News 

DEATH OF JUDGE MANDEVILLE 
An Aged and Honored Citizen Passes Peacefully Away 
Carrollton, GA June 17, 1892 

At 4:30 o'clock this afternoon Judge Appleton Mandeville died peacebly at his 
home. He retained the use of his mental faculties 
until his death. He was over 90 years old and was one of our oldest as well as 
one of the most useful and honored citizens. 
His liberality and enterprise will be missed, as for sixty years he has been 
prominently identified with all progress and improvement  in our town and 
county. 
In the death of Mr. Appleton Mandeville, Carrollton and Carroll County loses 
one of the oldest and best citizens. Not only is the name of Appleton 
Mandeville familiar in Carroll but in all of western Georgia. He was a pioneer 
citizen of Carroll and has been one of the most important factors in building 
up the county. 
Not only has Carrollton lost a good citizen but the Presbyterian Church has 
lost a devout and consistent member. He joined the church over twenty years 
ago and up to a few months ago, his seat was never vacant during the weekly 
services, although he was of the advanced age of four- score and ten. 
When Mandeville came to Carroll County there was no Carrollton, but he settled 
where the flourishing town is now and began to follow 
his chosen profession, merchandising and for forty years his wares were bought 
by the people of Carroll and the half dozen adjoining counties. 
Mr. Mandeville was a true democrat and the large democratic majority of 
Carroll is due to his wife counsels and talks for the party of the people. He 
has filled numerous offices of public trusts with entire satisfaction to his 
large constituency. Hon. Leon P. Mandeville, one of the best known men in the 
fourth congressional district and known all over Georgia, is a son of the 
honored deceased. 

THE STORY OF HIS LIFE 
Mr. Mandeville was born New York February 20, 1802. At twenty-one years of age 
he moved to Georgia, doing business, first in Clarke County, then in Pike, 
moving in 1833 to Carroll. In August 1835 he visited Vermont where he met a 
little black eyes beauty of nineteen years whom the fates had decreed would be 
his bride. A short courtship followed which was consummated by a marriage 
within a month. Leaving home the day of the wedding, they turned their faces 
southward. They staged it to New York where they embarked in a sailing vessel 
to Charleston, the trip consuming eleven days, a distance now covered by 
steamboats in forty-eight hours. From Charleston they traveled to Augusta by 
rail on the only railroad then in existence south of Washington City. From 
Augusta they resumed the stages to Carroll County, then an almost unbroken 
wilderness. In a little cabin upon the site of their present elegant mansion, 
they commenced the battles of life, surrounded with none of it's luxuries and 
but very few of it's necessities. 
Pluck, courage and perseverance won their usual reward and plenty soon smiled 
upon them. 
In 1840 with two little children they traveled to Vermont in a one horse wagon 
on a visit to relatives, the trip consuming about ninety days. 
Ten children were born unto them, seven of whom still survive. When the toxin 
of war first sounded it's alarm their eldest was among the first to offer his 
life for his country's cause. In July 1861 he met his death opon the soil of 
Virginia. Since then two daughters have paid the great debt of nature while 
the other children still live to bless and cheer the declining years of their 
loved and loving parents. 
Mr. Mandeville led an honest, upright and exemplary life among us, a life 
almost without a model or a shadow. He retained the possession of all his 
mental faculties. Though never strong, despite his four-score years, he walked 
with almost the springy step of youth. He read the finest print without 
glasses and conversed upon the ordinary topics of the day with the clearness 
of vigorous manhood. He witnessed the birth and decay of nearly all the 
political parties of the new world. The country was still in mourning for 
Washington when he was born, he enjoyed manhood's strengths ere Jefferson died 
and had reached it's mourn while Jackson was in it's zenith of glory. Age was 
creeping on him when Lincoln fulminated his emancipation proclamation, but 
with almost the enthusiasm of youth, he has mingled his rejoicings with those 
of the people of his state and country over the election of Cleveland. 
The consort who has attended him through all of these shifting years is worthy 
of grateful remembrance. Strong in body and vigorous in mind, she proved no 
less a helpmeet, as a gentle and careful wife, than she did as a tender and 
loving bride. 
Both sought that wisdom as beautifully sung by the greatest of earth's poets 
and have found in the glittering palm of her right hand  the promised 
reward "length of days" nor has her left been chary of assured treasures. 
*******************************************************************************

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/carroll/obits/m/ob5363mandevil.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/

File size: 5.7 Kb