Obituaries of Garrison, Ezra Curtis, Rusk Co Texas ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle April 8, 2007, 9:31 pm "The Carroll County Times Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, FEBRUARY 17, 1882 LOCAL News The many friends in this community of Ezra Curtis Garrison of Henderson, Texas, will regret to learn of his death on the 6th inst. at his home in that state. One of his friends in this place has written a beautiful tribute to his memory which we will publish in our next issue. ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, FEBRUARY 24, 1882 IN MEMORIAM OF EZRA CURTIS GARRISON "His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him, that nature might stand up, And say to all the word " this was a man"." Died in Henderson, Texas on the 6th inst. of consumption, Ezra Curtis Harrison, son of P.G. Garrison. The news of this death will bring sadness and pain to many hearts in this place where he was so well known and so well beloved. The deceased was born in Carrollton on the 18th day of March 1849. His boyhood days were passed among us; here were formed his earliest ties, here he received his education and here when scarcely beyond childhood's years, he made a profession of religion and joined the M.E. church, of which he ever remained an active, consistent member. At seventeen years of age, he left home and located in Texas. There he taught school for six or eight years and then entered into the drug business in which he amassed quite a fortune. About a year ago, his health failed and since then he has been traveling in the hope of regaining strength. All proved vain and on the evening of the 6th, he quietly passed away. Such, in brief, was the life of whom the writer has known from his earliest memory. It was my great privilege to be intimately associated with him during his youth as a playmate and school mate and to enjoy the fullest confidence of his maturer years, and through it all, I have never known him guilty of anything unworthy a gentleman and christian. It is not to much to say, that he was all that a man ought to be; as a scholar, studious and obedient, as a teacher, kind, capable and energetic; in business, honorable; loving and generous to his family; brave and conscientious in the discharge of every duty; honest and fearless in his convictions; a friend without treachery and a christian without hypocrisy. His life was short and it seemed that he was taken away just when the light of his christian example shone brightest, yet, " How long we live, not years, but actions tell, That man lives twice who lives the first life well." Ezra lived long enough to endear a host of friends, to leave behind a brilliant example of honor, truth and christian faithfulness and to win a crown of immortality in the Great Beyond. A friend, Carrollton, Ga., Feb. 15, '82 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/txfiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb