Floyd County GaArchives Obituaries.....Dean, Edward J. (Capt) February 12, 1885
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"The Jacksonville Republican"
Jacksonville, Calhoun Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, FEBRUARY 21, 1885

DEATH OF CAPT. EDWARD J. DEAN

Capt. Edward J. Dean died in Rome, Ga., the 12th inst., where he had gone 
for treatment at the hands of Dr. Beatty for Bright's disease.

For some years, Capt. Dean resided in Alexandria Valley in this county and 
was very highly esteemed. A few years ago he removed to Talladega county and 
was a citizen of that county at the time of his death. He was a brother of 
Mr. Hosea Dean of this county who now resides in Alexandria.

Capt. Dean was born in Spartanburg. S.C. on January 1, 1842. His father was 
a man of distinguished position in that state. His mother was a resident of 
Washington city at the time of her marriage and was a lady of the very 
highest culture and fine social position. The parents of Mr. Dean were 
possessed of wealth and he, consequently had the very best advantages in his 
early life.

He was a student at St. James College, Maryland at the outbreak of the war, 
but at once left college and joined the first company that enlisted from his 
native state. During the war he became Captain of Co. C, 22nd S.C. 
Volunteers and commanded his troops with marked courage and ability until he 
was captured at the battle of the "Crater" in front of Petersburg, that 
notable encounter that members of the 10th Alabama now living can so easily 
recall. Being carried to prison, he was urged to take the oath of allegiance 
to the United States and become a free man, but, although he had relatives 
of wealth and then living in Washington city and while such a course would 
have procured for him a life of ease and even luxury, he preferred to suffer 
affliction with those whom he had cast his lot and share the hardships of 
prison life, and he steadily refused such overturese and remained a prisoner 
until the close of the war. This incident serves to show the character of 
the man he was, and it tells at the same time the secret of the strong hold 
which he took upon the esteem and affections of those with whom he came in 
contact. As one who knew him best has said to us, " he was a patriot, a 
loyal friend and a man full of warm impulses and generous affections." The 
Talladega Mountain Home newspaper, in the course of a warm eulogy thus 
alludes to the religious side of his life:

" Captain Dean was a most efficient deacon of the Baptist church in 
Talladega, and one whose labors will be seriously missed by his church and 
pastor. He was a highly social and genial man, active and earnest in 
whatever claimed his attention, frank and outspoken to a fault; there was 
never any doubt as to which side of any questions had his cooperation. He 
was in the truest sense, a gentleman. He approached death in rational 
possession of mind, in perfect comfort and composure and with the joyous 
prospects of a dying Christian. "

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