Sterling Price McLemore

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Obituarie
Both from the February 17, 1910 Montgomery Advertiser
Courtesy of Melba Gene McLemore

Article

S. Price M'Lemore Dies While in Sister's Arms

Calling his sister to his bedside at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning, S. Price McLemore, a prominent and prosperous farmer of Mytilene, died a few moments later in her arms.

Mr. McLemore was 43 [48] years of age. He had been ill for some time, but during the last few days was feeling much better. He was in Montgomery Tuesday morning and in the afternoon he went hunting. Int he evening when he returned to his home at Mytilene he complained of being very tired.

He is survived by his mother, two sisters, Miss Delle McLemore of Mytilene, and Miss Mamie McLemore of Shelbyville, Tenn., and one brother, Moses McLemore of Mytilene.

The funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon a 3 o'clock from the residece at Mytlilene. Burial will follow in the family burying grounds.

Obituary

Death closed the life of Sterling Price McLemore on February 16, 1910.

His devotoing to his aged mother was beautiful and sacred.

To his sisters, he was ever kind and considerate.

All who knew him in life mourned his passing away in his forty-eighth year.

He had many qualities that endeared him to those who knew him.

He was symphathetic, he was just; he was both gentle and strong.

Altho' he had reached middle life, he had not grown old.

The same qualities that drew us to the boy were to be found in the man.

The home he has left is a monument to his loving providence for his dear ones.

The emptiness of this home yawns for those who leaned on him so confidingly. Little children loved him because in him they had a friend.

Life at its longest is but short. A rosy dawn, a golden moon, then a dusk stealing slowly o'er, or like a black could driven by a wind envelopes all this glory and Life'd Day is closed.

He was a grandson of James McLemore, one of the founders of the First Baptist Church of Montgomery County.

He has passed his life near the ancestral home established in 1813.

One Who Knew Him

McLemore Burying Ground, Montgomery, Alabama

From DAR records 1936

Sterling Price McLemore
Mar 6, 1862
Feb 16, 1910
To my beloved brother

The McLemore Burying Ground is about one mile off the Montgomery -Atlanta
Highway to the right facing east, and is about five miles from Montgomery.
It is on a knoll behind the old James McLemore home built about 1820. In
1936 Mrs. Lizzie Taylor Dickerson occupied it. A low brick wall and
iron fence surrounds the lot. Outside the main cemetery is another smaller
one, also enclosed. There are graves of slaves and faithful servants, mostly
unmarked outside all enclousures. Graves listed begin at the southwest
corner of the plot.

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