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William Cannady Long

The graveside service for William Cannady Long, 85, was held Saturday, Jan. 24, at the Old Abbeville Cemetery with Dr. Al Harbour and Rev. Don Dean officiating and Chapman Funeral Home directing.

Mr. Long died Wednesday, Jan. 21, at his residence in Eufaula.

Born July 22, 1918, in Henry County, he was the son of James Benjamin and Bessie Lee Cannady Long. He attended grade school in Abbeville, graduated from Sidney Lanier High School in Montgomery in 1937 and graduated from Auburn University in 1941 with a degree in electrical engineering. Mr. Long served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was discharged with the rank of major.

He began his career with Alabama Power Company as a junior engineer in Anniston. He retired from the company in 1983 as a division manager after 36 years and nine months. He was an active member of First United Methodist Church, Boy Scout leader, Boy Scouts Council member, Little League coach and a past president of the Kiwanis Club.

Survivors include his wife, Henrietta R. Long, Eufaula; one son and daughter-in-law, Ben and Pat Long, Broken Arrow, Okla., one granddaughter, Cheryl McCoy and one great- granddaughter, Naomi Mae McCoy, both of Plano, Texas.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Wiregrass Hospice, P.O. Box 1378, Eufaula, AL 36072, The American Cancer Society or a favorite charity.

Honorary pallbearers include the Alabama Power Co. Energizers, the Chewalla Coffee Club and the United Methodist Men's Breakfast Group.

From Sabrina Hagler

LOWE, Robert J.

Dothan Eagle, Dothan AL, 2 November 1910

Robert J. Lowe Dies In Eufaula
Career of Distinguished Alabama Politician Ends Tuesday

Montgomery, Nov 2. Colonel Robert J. Lowe, one of the prominent figures in the political history of the last fifty years in Alabama, died Tuesday morning at 6(?) o'clock at his Eufaula home. The news reached Montgomery shortly after 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning and spread rapidly among the many politicians who have gathered in the city at the present time. In the lobby of the Exchange (?) hotel, where the news of Mr.. Lowe's death was first reported, there were many men who brushed away the silent tear, shed because of the deep respect for the man who was once their friend and comrade.

The news of his death was not unexpected. For some time past he has been a sufferer, and on more than one occasion it had been state that he could not live throughout the night, but he fought the approach of death justas valiantly as he had fought many political opponents, and staved off the coming of the grim reaper from time to time. All who know him also knew that his end was near, but this did not lessen the shock of the actual news of his death to his many friends.

Robert J. Lowe was an attorney of fame. He was born in Huntsville on January 31, 1861, the place of his father's birth. His career was an eventful one and his life had been filled with many tragedies. His first wife was Hattie E. Pryor, daughter of Senator Luke Pryor, and she was killed in the cyclone that struck Birmingham of March, 1901. Later he married Mrs.. Carrie Cochran Jackson, daughter of Judge John Cochran of Eufaula, and after her death he married for the third time.

In the political history of Alabama, Mr.. Lowe figured largely. He was a member of the state legislator from 1888 to 1899 and was a member of the constitutional convention in 101, being one of the four members elected from the state at large. He was chairman of the state democratic committee from
1899 to 1900 and was again elected chairman of that committee in 1902, and was a delegate from the state at large to the national convention of 1900.
He figured largely in the political fight when the late United States Senator Edmund Pettus defeated John H. Bankhead.

Mr.. Lowe was educated in the private schools of Huntsville and graduated from the law department of the Alabama University in 1881. He removed to Birmingham where commenced (?) the practice of law, afterwards being identified with he firm of Smith and Lowe of that city. He had spent time in the military army of the state, having been captain of the Birmingham artillery from 1888 to 1889. Prior to that time he had been first lieutenant of the battery.

The funeral services over the body of the late Robert J. Lowe are to occur in Eufaula at four o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. There will be a large party of prominent people from Montgomery who will go to Eufaula to participate in the services.

P.G. Bowman, who has in his time been both a friend and the political opponent of Mr.. Lowe, said on Tuesday morning when heard of Mr.. Lowe's
death: "when his spirit passed over the river, one of the gentlest spirits and one of the bravest men Alabama has seen in the last fifty years, passed out".