Greene-Wayne-Wilson County NcArchives Obituaries.....Darden Jr., Capt. W. A. 1890
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Goldsboro Daily Argus
Tuesday, June 3, 1890
Page 1
                      Capt. W. A. Darden Dead
	Just as we go to press, we learn, by telegram, of the unexpected death 
of Capt. W. A. Darden, of Greene County, one of the truest Democrats and most 
chivalrous of men which occurred yesterday in Gatesville, N. C. where he was 
going the rounds of the lecturing tour assigned him by the State Farmer's 
Alliance, of which he was a prominent member.
	Capt. Darden was quiet and unobtrusive in his manner.  He was strongly 
domestic in his habits and rather inclined to be reserved.  Those who enjoyed 
the priviledge of intimacy with him were bound to esteem him for his sterling 
qualities and to love him for his many virtues.  His leading characteristics 
were strict justice and firm adherence to principle.  Faithful to his 
convictions, true to his friends, conscientious in the discharge of his duty, he 
was a man among men-faithful and tender and true-one who could be relied upon in 
any emergency.
	Capt. Darden was in the prime of usefulness and hope, with every 
indication that he would have received the nomination for State Auditor at the 
next general state Democratic Convention.  Yet, in the midst of life he did not 
forget the "Beginning, Mean, and End of all things-God," and for years he had 
been a devout and exemplary member of the Methodist Church.  Hence, it is 
gratifying to his friends and full of consolation to the loving relatives he 
leaves behind to know that, though his summons may have been sudden, yet where 
he "fell on sleep" he rested in the arms of a loving Savior.  An earnest 
Christian there can be no doubt that his slumber, though dreamless aand endless 
here, has had a glorious waking beyond.


The Head Light
Goldsboro, N. C. 
Wednesday, June 4, 1890

    The sad intelligence of the sudden
death of Capt. Wm. A Darden reach-
ed the city Monday evening, which
occured on that day in Gatesville, 
Gates county, this State, where he
was to deliver a lecture in the inter-
est of the Farmers' Alliance.  He
was about 55 years of age, the
father of Mrs. W. H. Borden, of
this city, and highly esteemed in 
general.  His remains will be brought
to his home in Greene County, where 
the internment will be made today.
A good man has gone to his reward.


Kinston Free Press
Thursday, June 5, 1890

    This community was shocked Monday evening by a telegram from Gatesville 
which bore the sad intelligence of the death of Capt. Wm A. Darden.  He was in 
Gates county at work in the interest of the Farmers Alliance as State Lecturer.  
We have not been able to receive anything definite in regard to his death.  Some 
of his friends will meet his remains at Wilson and take them through the country 
to Greene county for internment.  He leaves a family of ten children, seven of 
whom are hardly grown, to whom we extend the heartfelt sympathy of this entire 
community.


The Wilson Advance
Wilson, Wilson County, North Carolina
June 5, 1890

  DEATH OF CAPT. DARDEN
A telegram received here
Tuesday announced the death 
of Capt. W. A. Darden, District
Lecturer of the State Farmers'
Alliance, in Gatesville Monday.
He had just commenced a 
series of lectures in the First
District in behalf of the Al-
liance.  His body was brought 
to this place Tuesday and 
taken from here to his home in
Greene county and interred 
yesterday.  We are unable to 
learn any particulars as to his 
death.  Capt. Darden was born
May 15th, 1836, and was in his
57th year.  On May 15th, of 
the present year, he attended
the Cattle Show here and ad-
dressed the people present.
How little did those who heard 
his plea for a better system of
education, imagine that the 
speaker was standing on the 
threshold of eternity.  His
death is a painful surprise to 
our people.  A true and noble-
hearted Christian gentleman,
he was incapable of doing 
wrong.  We have known him 
long and intimately and es-
teemed him as one of our best
friends.  For many years he
has been a power of strength
to his party in Greene county
and was respected by his po-
litical opponents as is the
fortune of few men.  The county
of Greene sustains an irrepar-
able loss and the State one of
its best citizens in his death.

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