CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NC - OBITS - William Haywood, Sr - 1888

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The Montgomery Vidette
June 14, 1888
Obituary

William Haywood, Sr.

After suffering untold agony for a long weary week from that terrible
disease know as Apoplexy, Mr. William Haywood, Sr., of Mt. Gilead, died 
at his residence on last Thursday night at 9 o'clock. He was born on 
the 1st day of September, 1809 was therefore about 79 years of age. He
was married twice, first to a Miss Robertson and last to Miss Henrietta
Baldwin of one of the first families of this county, whom he left 
behind to experience the sorrow and bereavement of a widow's heart. His
first wife was the mother of six children of whom five are now living,
four of whom line in and around the town of Fayetteville, and one in 
this county. His last wife is mother of three children, two of whom are
now living, one the junior editor of this paper and the other is 
farming in Montgomery county.
The character of the one of who we write might be summed up in these 
words:
he was a quiet, unassuming christian man, a devoted husband, a fond
affectionate father, a kind, obliging neighbor. His family never knew a
want money could supply. At the time of his death his hope, his 
happiness, his life was wrapt up in his two younger sons and the 
happiness and comfort of their mother in her declining years. He took 
special delight in making his family happy and comfortable and 
preparing his children for the active realities of life. All of them he 
gave a fair education, the two youngest he educated at Wake Forest 
College. Mr. Haywood was for fifty years a devoted member of the 
Baptist church, and for years he was looked upon as the leader of the 
church of which he was a member. As a farmer he was exceedingly 
industrious. His father was comparatively a poor man and he therefore 
inherited nothing worth mentioning. By his industry and untiring energy
and economical dealing he swelled a small one horse farm into one of 
the largest grain and cotton farms in Montgomery county. During his 
life he had financial dealing with scores, perhaps hundreds of men, and 
if any man was every heard to complain of dishonesty or unfairness on 
his part he was ignorant of it at the time of his death. He was well 
known throughout Montgomery and adjoining counties, and if he had an 
enemy among men he knew it not.
But, we have made this sketch too long already. Our father is gone 
where old age with its whitened locks does not mar the happiness of 
youth, where disease is unknown, where tears do not fall. He was our 
best friend, our kind benefactor: our heart sleeps in the grave by his
side. Behold the paper upon which we write is wet with tears.


Special notes: William Haywood's first wife was Elizabeth Betty 
Robinson (b. 1808 and died about 1860). His second wife Henreitta 
Baldwin (b. 1824 d. 1914). was first married to Robert Green who died 
in 1856.