Death
Obituaries & Death Notices: A Surnames
Samuel D. Acuff
Dr. Samuel D. Acuff died at his home in Knoxville, October 8, after a long illness, aged sixty-three. Dr. Acuff was a graduate of the University of Louisville in 1898. He was at one time Dean of the Medical Department of the Lincoln Memorial University and enjoyed a large and lucrative practice until he was forced to retire on account of ill health. He took an active interest, not only in his local county medical society, but in that of the state and national organizations, and his loss will be keenly felt. Source: The Journal of the Tennessee State Medical Association (Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee State Medical Association, 1924), 207.
Addison W. Armstrong
Departed this life yesterday, at his residence in Knox county, Addison W. Armstrong, Esq., aged seventy-two years. The deceased was one of our oldest and best citizens. He was the second son of Robert Armstrong, Esq., one of the gallant band of thirty-eight who, in the infancy of Knoxville, in September, 1793, went out to meet and repulse an army of one thousand Cherokee warriors, on their invasion of the white settlements. The deceased, born and thus raised on this extreme frontier of the Southwest, during his whole life had been fully identified with all the interests - material, social, educational and religious - of the general community around him. He witnessed with a lively interest its progress, its growth, its improvement, its elevation in refinement, intelligence and its various industries. He was emphatically the good citizen - a lover of good men, a peace-maker - and in this behalf, as a public surveyor, prevented more litidation and effected more compromises of conflicting land titles than perhaps any other living man. Being conciliatory, kind and obliging, all confided in and esteemed him. He was a Ruling Elder of the Presbyterian Church, of which he was an old, influential and beloved member. In all the domestic relations he was exceedingly exemplary and faithful - a dutiful son, an affectionate husband, a fond father, proud of his children and of the character impressed upon them by his precepts and his example, a humane and indulgent master, a benevolent neighbor and a humble and unostentatious Christian. In his last and only sickness he bore his affliction with patience and without a murmur. His end was peace. "Blessed are the peace makers, for they shall be called the children of God." Source: "Obituary," Knoxville Daily Chronicle, 23 May 1873, digital images, Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov : accessed 17 June 2017).
Edward Armstrong
Died at his residence in this city on the 17th inst., Edward Armstrong, in the 31st year of his age. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Knoxville College, and was respected by all who him. Source: "Died," Knoxville Daily Chronicle, 22 December 1881, digital images, Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov : accessed 17 June 2017).
Eliza Morgan Ault
Died, on Monday morning, the 25th inst., at 15 minutes before 2 o'clock, at the residence of her mother, Mrs. Mary McClung, on Clinch street, Eliza Morgan Ault, wife of Henry T. Ault, of this city. Mrs. Ault was the second daughter of the late Capt. Pleasant M. McClung, who departed this life September 20, 1863. She was born on the 25th of December, 1849. Funeral services were held at the First Presbyterian Church yesterday evening at half past 2 o'clock. Source: "Obituary," Knoxville Weekly Chronicle, 27 November 1872, page 5, digital images, Chronicling America (http:chroniclingamerica.loc.gov : accessed 17 July 2018).
