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Goldsboro Dailey Argus
Goldsboro, NC Saturday Evening, December 18, 1926
COL. W. B. FORT PASSES
End of Widely Known and Universally Esteemed County and Confederate Navy
Veteran Came at Noon Today at His Colonial Home Near Pikeville.
It is meant that in life purpling twilight, the drowsy twinkling of even
tides should lull to sleep, and so becomes our sorrowful province to
chronicle that at noon today at his colonial country home near Pikeville,
our widely and universally esteemed countyman Col Wylie B. Fort, in the 86th
year of his age "fell on sleep" after six months of slow decline, which He
was in tender care of devoted daughters,solicitions, phyicians and nurses
and an army of friends.
Col Fort was born December 11, 1841and had barely entered in his 86th year
when summons came to him to "cross over and rest beneath the shade of the
trees." He was a student at the N. C. University when the war between the
states broke out and he at once volunteered and entered the Confederate
Navy, and was in historic engagement between the Merrimac and the Monitor
off Hampton Roads, and was perhaps the last surivor of that great battle.
While Col. Fort suffered all the travail of war and reconstrution in common
with his people, he was not reduced to the keen physical suffering of want
that many others experienced because he was possessed with wide acres of
fine farming and timber lands, and these were ever at the use of his needy
neighbors during the privations of reconstruction and he generously shared
with them whatever he had; so that all through the subsequent years
no man has been so loved by his neighbors as Col. Fort, and now that he is
gone from them they feel sorrowful indeed; but are comforted by the belief
that he has the words of the King: "In as much as you have done unto one of
the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Enter thou into the
joys of thy Lord."
While attending the commencement last June, and his class reunion he was
taken suddenly ill on June 7, during the exercise and was hastily conveyed
to the Durham hospital where for weeks his
condition was so grave that he could not be moved: later he was conveyed by
easy conveyince to the hospital at Morehead City in the hope that the
sulubrious salt air would prove conductive to his recovery; but at length he
was conveyed to his home, where the end came at noon today.
Col. Is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Fred Parker, of this city, and Mrs.
R. A. Fetzer of Chapel Hill, four grandsons, Messrs. Talbot, Fred, Jr.,
Ogden and Wylie Parker of this city.
The funeral will be held from the home, near Pikeville, tomorrow afternoon
at 3:30 o'clock, and the interment will be made beside his late wife and two
sons in the ancestral Fort buring ground.
The following pall bearers have been selected: Active: Lonnie Smith, Leslie
Crawford, Arthur Crawford,
A. S. Vinson, Harrison Yelverton, Jno. K Bridgers, R. Jack Smith, J. B.
Hooks. Honorary: T. R. Robinson, Joe Rosenthal, N. O'Berry, Joe A. Parker,
W. F. Taylor, D. C Humphrey, Latium Williams, of Wilson, Percy Munson of
Wilmington, A. H. Edgerton, F. K. Borden, W. T. Yelverton, B.G. Thompson,
Dr. J. Y. Joyner, Ray Wooten, Council Wooten, M. J. Best, Col. A. C. Davis.
Thanks to Alton Parnell of Pikeville, North Carolina for contributing this obituary on 11 September 2007.
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