Cited in Highbrows, Hillbillies & Hellfire: Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880-1930 By Steve Goodson. University of Georgia Press, 2002. Pgs 142-143.
Kathryn Edwards Heritier
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
"Sarge Plunkett" Atlanta Constitution, June 27, 1890
There is in The Constitution office an old tin dipper which has seen good service. Yesterday our own Sarge Plunkett sat down and composed the following impromptu ode to it:
Covered with dust,
Eaten by rust,
Neglected old dipper! Forsaken by all!
No more to kiss
The lips of a mass;
Worn and worthless you hang on the wall.
Sweet are the thoughts that well in my heart
While I think of the scenes in which you took part,
But sadly bereft I feel when I think
How neglected by those you once gave drink!
'Tis a lesson of life
Which cuts like a knife--
That all things of earth but serve out their time.
Remembered by few,
Neglected like you--
Is the fate of a man who passes his prime.
Atlanta Constitution, June 27, 1890
Addison Milton Wier's Obituary
The Atlanta Constitution
April 2, 1922
“Sarge Plunkett,” Georgia Author, At Rest Forever
“Sarge Plunkett” is dead.
A.M. Wier, widely known throughout the south as “Sarge Plunkett,” a nom de plume used by him in writings published in many papers, died at his residence in Decatur after an illness of several months. He is survived by his widow and two sons, William S. and Julius Wier.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:15 o’clock Sunday afternoon in ths chapel of A.S. Turner, Decatur, the Rev. D.P. McGeachy, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Decatur, officiating. Interment will be made in Decatur cemetery.
Born in Pike County.
Mr. Wier was born in Pike county, Georgia, in November, 1845. His early life, like that of many another boy, was void of educational possibilities in the days just prior to the outbreak of the great war between the states. His education, however, was limited, and only by dint of hard efforts and determination to acquire knowledge did he build the foundation for the later series of writings which, under the pen name of “Sarge Plunkett,” were known and read throughout the state and in many adjoining states.
At the beginning of the civil war he volunteered his services to the confederate cause and fought under the banner of General Longstreet.
When the war ended, he settled down to a quiet life of farming, but later, while employed as a printer on The Constitution, and article which he had written attracted notice of editors, and it was then that he was “found.” For more than twenty years hardly a man, woman or child in Georgia did not know of “Sarge Plunkett,” or of his contribution to Georgia’s literature.
Pathos and Philosophy.
There was a certain pathos of expression in his writings, coupled with a philosophical knowledge of human things and nature which bespoke a character deeply in accord with nature and the love of all things beautiful.
During the course of his journalistic career, there appeared in book form a publication from the pen of “Sarge Plunkett,” called “Old Times in Georgia.”
His latter years had been spent in solitude, and at the little home on Adair avenue, in Decatur, just beyond the Oakland station, he maintained a small farm, while to a certain extent he entered public affairs by holding the office of justice of the peace for a number of years. His death came Friday night.
[Transcribed 20 May 2008 Lynn Cunningham]
April 2, 1922
“Sarge Plunkett,” Georgia Author, At Rest Forever
“Sarge Plunkett” is dead.
A.M. Wier, widely known throughout the south as “Sarge Plunkett,” a nom de plume used by him in writings published in many papers, died at his residence in Decatur after an illness of several months. He is survived by his widow and two sons, William S. and Julius Wier.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:15 o’clock Sunday afternoon in ths chapel of A.S. Turner, Decatur, the Rev. D.P. McGeachy, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Decatur, officiating. Interment will be made in Decatur cemetery.
Born in Pike County.
Mr. Wier was born in Pike county, Georgia, in November, 1845. His early life, like that of many another boy, was void of educational possibilities in the days just prior to the outbreak of the great war between the states. His education, however, was limited, and only by dint of hard efforts and determination to acquire knowledge did he build the foundation for the later series of writings which, under the pen name of “Sarge Plunkett,” were known and read throughout the state and in many adjoining states.
At the beginning of the civil war he volunteered his services to the confederate cause and fought under the banner of General Longstreet.
When the war ended, he settled down to a quiet life of farming, but later, while employed as a printer on The Constitution, and article which he had written attracted notice of editors, and it was then that he was “found.” For more than twenty years hardly a man, woman or child in Georgia did not know of “Sarge Plunkett,” or of his contribution to Georgia’s literature.
Pathos and Philosophy.
There was a certain pathos of expression in his writings, coupled with a philosophical knowledge of human things and nature which bespoke a character deeply in accord with nature and the love of all things beautiful.
During the course of his journalistic career, there appeared in book form a publication from the pen of “Sarge Plunkett,” called “Old Times in Georgia.”
His latter years had been spent in solitude, and at the little home on Adair avenue, in Decatur, just beyond the Oakland station, he maintained a small farm, while to a certain extent he entered public affairs by holding the office of justice of the peace for a number of years. His death came Friday night.
[Transcribed 20 May 2008 Lynn Cunningham]
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