Troup Co. GA. - OBIT:  Dr. Whitmel Sterling

Submitted by Karen Goudelock <KGoudelock@aol.com>


                            STERLING, Dr Whitmel
                                      
                                      
   The following obit was glue on the Family Record page of an 1874 Bible
   belonging to Mary Virginia ("Scrap")Cook, daughter of James Robb Cook
   b 1811 d 1883 Troup Co and Frances Emily Sterling b 1821 d 1855 Troup
   Co. The obit is for Dr. Whitmel Sterling, brother of Frances and son
   of Wiley J. Sterling and Bethany Bonner of Troup Co. Mary Virgina Cook
   was a spinster and lived her last days in Columbia Co AR with my great
   grandfather, Thomas Sterling Cook, her nephew through her brother
   Sterling. The obit is as follows:
   
   "Dr. Sterling Dead". An old and honored Citizen of Atlanta Passes to
   His Final Reward.
   
   Dr. W. Sterling died at his home, corner of Luckie and Cain streets,
   yesterday afternoon.
   
   The announcement will carry sorrow to many homes throughout the city,
   where for twenty-eight years Dr. Sterling has practiced his
   profession.
   
   He came to Atlanta in 1866 from LaGrange, where he was reared from
   early boyhood, his birthplace being in Pike county. He leaves a wife
   and two children by a former marriage, W. E. Sterling of Carrollton,
   and Mrs. Lily Vorhees, of Atlanta, one brother, Mr. J. R. Sterling, of
   LaGrange, and many relatives throughout the state, besides legions of
   friends to mourn his loss.
   
   Dr Sterling was a man of superior intellect and ability, though
   retiring and unassuming. He was a friend to the affliected, the needy
   and distressed, and his three score and ten years are filled with
   countless deeds of love and charity known only to Him who judges all.
   During the war he was a surgeon of distinction in the confederate army
   and when he came back from General Lee's surrender penniless it was to
   locate in Atlanta. He was a gradute of the University of the City of
   New York, one of the most renowned schools of that day, and was
   througout his professional career and intimate friend and associate,
   both socially and professionally, of the late Dr. Willis Westmoreland.
   
   Arrangedments for the funeral have nott been perfected yet, but will
   be announced tomorrow.
   
   NOTE: There is another very short obit listing pallbearers etc and is
   as follows:
   
   STERLING - Died, Monday afternoon, May 28, 1894, Dr. Whitmel L.
   Sterling, in his seventy-second year. Friends of himself and family
   are invited to attend his funeral services from his late residence,
   128 Luckie street, this (Tuesday) afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The
   following gentlemen are requested to act as pallbearers and honorable
   escort; Pallbearers - Messrs. D. Perkerson, Frank Graves, Harry Sharp,
   W. C. Dodson, E. T. Payne, J. S. Hall, J. H. Stark and T. J. Winn.
   Escort - Drs. Welborn, Miller, Westmoreland, Biggers, Asher, Clarence
   Johnson, Stephens, Parks and Hodgson. Please meet at Barclay & Evin's
   undertaking parlors at 2 o'clock sharp. Interment at Oakland.

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