FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
I2I 
Necrology* 
Report Submitted by G* L* Taber, W* S* Hart and Wm*C^ Richardson* 
Mr. President^ Ladies and Gentlemen : 
There are times in the lives of socie¬ 
ties, as of individuals, when we are 
called upon to cope, as best we may, 
with the feelings that overwhelm us, 
and to give expression, in some form, 
however inadequate, to the esteem and 
love and honor in which we hold our 
departed dead. 
This is one of those sad occasions 
and our lips falter and the words we 
grope for come haltingly and broken 
and seemingly powerless to convey the 
thoughts we would utter. We stand 
apalled at the calamity that has over¬ 
taken us. Since last we met our 
honored and beloved President, 
Charles Tobin McCarty and five others 
of our highly esteemed number, have 
passed into the Great Beyond. The 
sad ’ recordl in chronological order is as 
follows: 
L. J. Sawyer of Tibballs, Saint Lucie 
county, died at Oswego, N. J.» July 
20th, 1906, aged sixty-eight years. 
George Rainsford Fairbanks of Fer- 
nandina, Nassau County, died at 
Suwannee, Tennessee, August 3rd, 
1906, aged eighty-six years. 
Denis Redmond of Saint Nicholas, 
Duval County, died at Jacksonville, 
September 24th, 1906, aged eighty-two 
years. 
Abner Atwood of Pawtucket, R. L, 
died at his home in Pawtucket, Novem¬ 
ber 23rd, 1906, aged eighty-two years. 
Charles Tobin McCarty of Eldred, 
Saint Lucie County, died at Fort 
Pierce, January 30th, 1907, aged fifty 
years. 
Henry George Sartorious of Semi¬ 
nole, Hillsboro County, died at Las 
Vegas, New Mexico, March 30th, 1907, 
aged thirty-two years. 
Your committee on Necrology, to 
whom the sad duty was assigned, beg 
to report the following resolutions: 
Whereas, during the past year, death 
has removed our beloved chief execu¬ 
tive officer and several of our most 
worthy members, and 
Whereas, it is due their honored 
memory that fitting tribute be paid 
them and expression given to our deep 
sense of loss, therefore. 
Resolved, that in the death of 
Charles Tobin McCarty, our society 
has lost a President whom we loved, 
an executive officer of high ability, a 
man, a brother and a friend who was 
in every sense one of “God’s noble¬ 
men that in the death of George R. 
Fairbanks we have lost a zealous work¬ 
er for the interests of our society, a 
historian of note and an honored 
Christian gentleman; that in the death 
of Denis Redmond we have lost one of 
our esteemed honorary members, who 
for many years was noted in literary 
work and zealous in horticultural pur¬ 
suits; that in the death of Abner At¬ 
wood, L. J. Sawyer and H. G. Sartor¬ 
ious, we have lost three of our worthy 
and esteemed members. 
Resolved that we extend our sym- 
