Madison County GaArchives Obituaries.....Meadow, D.W.  (Judge) 1919
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Danielsville Monitor 11 Jan 1918
Death of Judge Meadow

   Friday evening, Dec. 28th Hon. D.W. Meadow, a prominent and very popular
citizen of Elberton but who was born and reared in this county, where he was
well known and universally loved and esteemed by our people, died at the 
Georgian Hotel, in Athens, after a brief illness, of pneumonia.  He had gone to 
Athens on legal business and was so suddenly and violently attacked with 
pneumonia that it was deemed not prudent to remove him to his home, and 
after about three weeks of suffering his spirit was released and the weary
body was at rest.
   Judge Meadow was in the 65th year of his age when death came.  He was
one of the most prominent men Madison county ever produced, having held
many positions of trust and honor.  He had represented his county in the 
loser house of the State legislature, had held the position of solicitor of the
Northern circuit for two terms and was judge of the Northern circuit for two
terms.  All these positions he filed with distinguished honor and to the
entire satisfaction of the people.  At the time of his death he was the only
surviving executor of the estate of James M. Smith.
   Judge Meadow was a model husband and father, and his death has brought 
a deep and lasting grief to his faithful wife and four surviving children who, 
in
this terrible ordeal have the active and sincere condolence and sympathy of
all the people of Madison county and an numerable host of true friends 
thruout this section.
   By his genial, generous hearted and companionable disposition Judge
Meadow made fast friends of almost every one he met and consequently
was known and highly esteemed by a large number of people thruout the 
State, who learned of his death with deep and true regret.  He was a true, firm
generous hearted, self sacrificing friend, a prominent public spirited valuable 
citizen , an affectionate and indulgent husband and father a highly intelligent,
warm-hearted gentleman and always contributed liberally of his means for the
support of the church and all public benefactions and to the relief of the
distresses of those who were less fortunate than himself.  He will be greatly
missed, not only in his immediate community, but thruout this entire section, 
for his liberal contributions to all worthy causes.  To sum up his character in
two words, he was a manly man, and his memory all the enshrined in the
hearts of a very large number of friends thruout the State.
   The funeral was held at the First Methodist Church in Athens, Saturday, 
Dec 30th, and although the weather was severely inclement was attended by
a large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends and his body was committed
to beautiful Oconee cemetery in that city with Masonic honors.
   Peace, peace to his ashes!
                                                                          E.J.C.


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