Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Trulock, Gordon Byron October 4, 1919
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Cairo Messenger, October 10, 1919
Prominent Whigham Citizen Died Sunday

Mr. Gordon Byron Trulock, died at his home in Whigham, Saturday, October 4th, 
at the age of eighty-two years.

On account of his advanced age, he had become quite feeble, but he never failed 
to make his usual round and routine of business until the day he passed out.

He had been a prominent figure in the life of the town for forty-four years, 
moving here in the year of 1875.  He passed out quietly last Saturday afternoon 
from the infirmities of old age.

Mr. Trulock's career was one marked by success in a large way which bears 
testimony of what he was in the heart and mind.

He might well be named among the pioneers of Whigham for he was familiar with 
its infancy and youth on to what it is today.  He grew up with the town and 
community and made good use of the opportunities it offered him in assuming a 
considerable fortune.  He was among the earliest money lenders of the town long 
before a bank was organized in it.

Quite a number of citizens of this section have come to be land owners and 
owners of homes through his kindly aid.  It is said by many that in all his 
dealings with his fellow man, he was never known to close a customer out so 
long as the other party was disposed to show a willingness to fulfill his part 
of the contract, and if providentially kept from doing so, he would always show 
his largeness of heart by giving another chance to whoever the unfortunate one 
might be.

Mr. Trulock's life is an open book to all, and any who wish, may read therein 
in glowing letters, his magnanimity of spirit and his high sense of right and 
justice in which he was not swayed one way or the other when he was convinced 
of the justice of his position.

He was clean in his habits and plain in his living and consistent in his home 
life, yet in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, death came stealing on, how 
silently, before we are aware, the silver cord is loosed and the golden bowl is 
broken.  

Would that we could do justice to his memory, and properly express the high 
meed of praise so justly his due.  But in death, we are reminded how frail the 
tenure by which human life is held, how often we witness its abrupt 
termination.  All nature tells us the story of dissolution. On every page her 
volume is illustrated.  In every form it is presented to view, and pressed home 
upon us in every manner.

Mr. Trulock was born in Early County, Ga., June 5th, 1837, and reared in 
Decatur county.  He gave the Confederacy four years of the best of his life.  
Serving one year with the Bainbridge Independents, the first military 
organization formed in Decatur county in defense of the Southland.  The writer 
well remembers hearing a member of the above company speak highly of his 
courage and valor as a soldier.  He spent the remaining three years of the 
conflict with Hood's Cavalry and rendering a good account of himself.  A member 
of the Presbyterian Church, ever faithful to its teaching and obedient to its 
every demand, he lived his religion in thought, word and deed, accepting the 
Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior.

He was married to Mrs. Edna Butler (nee Bostwick) March 31st, 1886.  To this 
happy union, five children were born, two daughters and three sons, Mrs. Dixie 
Spence, Mrs. C. G. Hodges, G. B., Jr., and Dewitt P. Trulock, of Whigham, 
Albert S. of Buena Vista, Ga., member of the South Georgia Conference, and two 
step children, Mr. Ford Butler of New Orleans, La., and Mrs. M. M. McCord, of 
Rome, Ga., one brother, A. J. Trulock of Climax, one sister, Mrs. Joe Maxwell 
of Cairo, all of which survive him.  Interment followed in the Whigham cemetery 
Sunday afternoon at three o'clock in the presence of a large crowd of friends 
and sad loved ones.  

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