S.R. Crumpton Obituary


From The Mountain Eagle, October 25, 1911
Submitted by Robin Sterling



Rev. S.R. Crumpton Dead. Rev. S.R. Crumpton died at his home at Marylee yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon at about 3:15 o’clock. He had been sick for ten days or two weeks. At first his physician pronounced his trouble a severe attack of bilious fever, but in a few days he turned yellow like a man suffering from a bad case of jaundice. He continued to grow worse, despite all that could be done for him, and the end came, as already stated, yesterday at noon. The burial takes place today at 3 o’clock at Mt. Hope church, in Winston county, where some members of his family sleep the last sleep. The religious services will be conducted by Rev. Hill Harbison, and the concluding services will be in charge of the masons, of which order the deceased had long been a member.

The Rev. S.R. Crumpton had long been prominent in both religious and political circles of the county. He was a Methodist Episcopal minister, and at the time of his death he was chairman of the republican executive committee of Walker county. He had many friends, irrespective of party or religious belief who will learn of his death with genuine regret. He was about fifty-five years of age and leaves a wife and several children. When last seen in Jasper, something like two weeks ago, he looked the perfect picture of health, and he was a man who had always enjoyed good health. [S.R. Crumpton, 18 Dec 1855 – 25 Oct 1911; buried Mt. Hope Cemetery at Arley]


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