Lamar County AlArchives Obituaries.....MIDDLETON, James June 1888
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Vernon Courier, June 22, 1888 – pg 4

JAMES MIDDLETON, Esq.
On Tuesday night at 11 o’clock, the subject of this sketch passed from this 
life.  He was one of Lamar’s aged and most honored citizens. The writer has 
often heard him tell of moving through Tuskaloosa when it was a small village, 
and of the first steamboat that came up the Warrior River.  He was many times 
honored by the citizens of this and Fayette County, with positions of trust and 
profit.  Serving several sessions in the legislature of the state; several 
times as county Supt. of Education, and last was Clerk of the Circuit Court of 
this county.
	His influence has ever been on the side of morality and religion, and 
he was a man of strong convictions, and what he thought was right, he always 
had the moral courage to do.  He had lived several years above the allotted 
years for man and leaves a life full go god deeds that have been a blessing to 
society. The death of such a man is a great loss to any community, for such 
excellent characters are rare indeed.  He was also an active man in his church 
and carried his religion into the affairs of every day life. Educated 
considerably above the average, in his younger days, and with strong mind he 
naturally became a leader in the public affairs of his country, and few men 
have ever lived in this section that had greater influence in shaping and 
directing public opinion than he.  “Full of years and honors’; and with the 
esteem and veneration of the entire community by friendly hands he was kindly 
laid to rest.



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