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THOMAS J. WATKINS.

Death is always sad, it breaks ties that are never fully mended and leaves wounds that are hidden but never cured. Particularly is this true in the death of the young, who stand on the threshold of a life of usefulness and happiness, full of hope and armed for all conflicts that time may bring.

The Virginia State Bar Association has lost one of the most promising of its younger members in the death at Richmond, Va., on April 1, 1914, of Thomas J. Watkins, a member of the Bar of Charlotte county, who was born at Charlotte C. H., on February 2, 1885; attended the public schools at that place until September, 1901, when he entered Hampden-Sidney College, graduating in June, 1905, with the degree of A. B. During the session of 1905-6 he taught in the Augusta Military Institute, and entered the law school at Washington and Lee University in September, 1906, graduating in 1908, when he returned to his native county and entered into the practice of law with his father, Thomas E. Watkins, under the firm name of Watkins & Watkins.

The writer has known Thomas J. Watkins from his earliest childhood, and, after he came to the bar, was intimately associated with him in the conduct of important litigation. He was a young man of clear, analytical mind, with every promise of making a ripe lawyer. His standards of professional honor were high, and he quickly made himself felt as a force at the Charlotte Bar. When he passed away from this earthly forum. he left not an enemy behind. To quote Judge Harrison, it can be truthfully said:

We drop a tear of sympathetic sorrow over the grave of one so young, so manly, so promising, and yet so quickly called away from this beautiful earth and the affections which clustered around him as their central hope and stay in the world.

M. M. MARTIN.

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