Showing posts with label William N Bilbo. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 16, 2019

William N. Bilbo of Nashville, Tenn. . . .

. . . Died in that city on the 27th Ult.  He was a man of considerable prominence.  He was ambitious, and a man of Energy; but he was fickle, eccentric, inconsistent of purpose, and hence he achieved but little success in anything he undertook.  He tired law, politics, literature, speculation, mining, &c., but failed in them all, though he had capacity enough to win success in either, if his energies had been properly directed.  He had many amiable qualities, and leaves a wide circle of friends.

— Published in the Montgomery News Advertiser, Montgomery, Alabama, Saturday August 3, 1867, p. 2 and the same article was published in The Weekly Advertiser, Montgomery, Alabama, Tuesday, August 6, 1867, p. 2