Sidney Lanier's Obituary
From Montgomery Daily Advertiser, September 11, 1881.
The sad news has been received in this city that this eminent writer and excellent gentleman had succumbed at last to the dread disease that had so long preyed upon him. He died at Asheville, North Carolina, on Thursday last [Sept. 7, 1881] -- a victim of consumption.
He had been ill for many months, and, some weeks since, went to Asheville with the vain hope that its bracing air would arrest the cruel inroads the disease was fast making upon his failing strength. But it was too late. He has passed away in the very prime of his young manhood, and when he had attained a fame which opened to him a field of usefulness and honor that any man might have envied.
His name is not only a familiar sound in all literary circles throughout the United States, but his works were hardly less popular in England. He was only thirty-eight years old. He leaves a widow and several children. Our fellow citizen, Mr. Clifford A. Lanier, is a brother of the deceased. He accompanied the remains to Baltimore, where they were interred.
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