MR. WILLIAM SPARKS CAVITT
Wlliam S. Cavitt, aged thirty-one years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Volney
Cavitt, of Wheelock, Texas, died at his father's home on February 16,
1897, after a few days of intense pain and suffering, which he bore, as
was characteristic of his life, with patience and fortitude. He leaves
an old father and mother, six brothers, four sisters who loved and
honored him.
In this strange dispensation of providence, his parents are deprived of
the son they leaned affectionately upon in their declining years, for he
turned a deaf ear to fortune's tempting offers, feeling it a grand duty
to minister to the comfort and welfare of loved ones at home.
He was a noble character, with a high, pure purpose in life, scattering
seeds of kindness and rays of sunshine in the pathway of others,
"doing good unto all men." his death, as is so often the case with us in
our blindness and shortsightedness, we do not comprehend the divine plan
and purpose, but we do know that nothing is by accident God's
dispensations. Some day, when we shall know even as we are known we will
realize the length and breadth, the height and depth of His blessed
love. Until then, we can only say, "Thy will be done", for we know that
it is His loving hand that leads us, though the way may be dark.
(signed) One who loves Him
James V. Cavitt was the other son of Volney Cavitt regarded as specially
worthy of admiration and emulation. He was near the age of Josephus'
son, Sheridan Cavitt. They were kindred spirits, warm, close personal
friends. The close friendship existing between them caused the cousins
to know Jim thoroughly and to admire and love him. They were thrown
together in business relationships and kept in close touch in mature
years. John B. B. Cavitt wrote: "Jim was a good true friend. He was a
man of sturdy alities and excellent character. He was a successful
business man, long-headed, careful and prudent and attentive to
business. Uncle Volney said he regarded Jim as outstanding among his
boys as a safe business man. Jim loved people, he was sociable, friendly
and easy to approach. He respected and admired an honorable upright man
or woman, but had little patience with people of shoddy make-up who were
unreliable and undependable. He had little patience with people who were
guilty of little, low, mean acts, and did not mince matters when
rebuking them, whoever they might be. Jim Cavitt's fine character, his
uprightness, his sense of justice and fair- ness, his integrity and high
sense of honor caused him to be a marked man wherever he was well known.
He was outspoken, open and above-board. Every one knew where he stood on
all important questions. He was never on the fence when matters of
principle were involved. He believed in meeting all comers on the high
points of honor."
A letter from J. V. Cavitt to John B. Cavitt, September, 1929, shows J.
V. Cavitt's character:
Holland, Texas
Sep. 1929
Dear John: Your letter came yesterday and was doubly appreciated as I
know what the effort to write cost you. Thank you for your sympathy for
me in my ill health and your interest in my family.
You underrate yourself-I am quite sure I know you better than your own
brothers know you, as you know me better than my own brothers. I know
you to be solid Old John. As my mother said to me, at one time, while I
was on a visit to her at Wheelock-she patted me on the back and said
"solid old Jim. That, from her, was a high compliment as the term
signified reliability of character and her confidence.
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