Hinds County MsArchives Obituaries..... GLOVER,  R. T.  1912
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Hinds County Gazette
       R.T. GLOVER
Monday morning at 10 o’clock
the remains of Mr. R. T. Glover
were laid to rest at Raymond.
Dr. King of the Second Baptist 
Church of Jackson officiating.
Mr. Glover was a former well
known and much respected
citizen of Raymond, having spent
most of his life here.  He was 
70 years of age and had been in
failing health for many months
and his death, while a great
bereavement to his relatives and
friends, was not unexpected.
The deceased was born at
Tuscaloosa, Ala., and from there
at the breaking out of the Civil
War joined the Forty-third
Alabama Regiment, under Longstreet.
At Loeis Bluff in 1863
Mr. Glover lost an arm, and his
empty sleeve he considered a
badge of honor.  He was married
in 1866, and in 1873 moved to
Mississippi, residing at Raymond
until 1901, when he went to 
Jackson. He was a member of the 
Methodist Church and a man of
many admirable traits, true as
steel in his friendship, and of
whom it is said he never spoke
an unkind word of any human
being.  Two years ago he became
totally blind yet he accepted
this added burden without
murmuring, taking his lot as he
found it and never questioning
the way of Providence.
Mr. Glover was a brave soldier
and only a short while before
death he requested of his friend,
Clay Sharkey, that he see that
he was buried in his Confederate
gray and that the flag under
whose folds he had spent four
long and bloody years be entwined
about his casket, and his wish
was carried out.  A Delegation
of Confederate Veterans consisting
of Clay Sharkey, Colonel R.
J. Harding and Captain John A.
Webb of Jackson, and Captain
Lewis of Clinton, accompanied
the remains to Raymond, where
 the body of the old soldier and
good citizen was lowered to its
last resting place and the new
made mound covered with flowers,
while a large number of the
citizens of Raymond attended to 
pay their last sad respects to the 
man who was a friend to everybody.
Mr. Glover leaves three sons
and one daughter, to whom the
sympathy of the entire community
goes out in their hour of sorrow.



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Handwritten date on the article: 1912
Hinds County Gazette
Raymond, Mississippi


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