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sucessively, Attorney General, U. S. District Attorney, and U. S.
Judge for the District. When he resided here, he was a mighty Nimrod, and his exploits in the woods and on the water, are well remembered. He was the father of those gallant soldiers,
Gens*. Daniel and Wirt Adams, and father-in-law of that distinguished lawyer, Gen. John D. Freeman, of Jackson, formerly Attorney General.
Robert H. Buckner, was a Kentuckian ; settled in Monticello. afterwards.at Clinton; a man of peculiar manners, but of vigorous mind and extensive reading Became Chancellor of the State, a K position for which few men were better qualified, but died prematurely.
Wm. Vannerson, a Virginian, long domiciled in Natchez, afterwards for many years in Monticello. and died there recently at aa advanced age. He was the humorist of the bar?the life of the circuit?but withal well-read in his profession, very acute, a thorough judge of human nature, very apt to throw an adversary off his guard, with his jokes and his air of carelessness, but as quick as lightning to seize upon a weak point of his opponent.
A man of noble heart.
Crawford was a Virginian, nephew of the celebrated Wm. II. Crawford of Georgia, and very raucn like him in' his mental organization. He settled in Amite; was elected Circuit Judge, and died in the prime of life.
Col. Lambkin was also a Virginian; resided in Pike, a man of impressive manners and vigorous intellect, a countenance beaming with the benevolence that warmed his heart. He, too, died when life had many attractions, and much to hope for.
Col. B. H. Harris?known to all our old citizens as ?Buck? Harris?is not dead, I believe and hope ; ho long since went to Texas, and is far enough to excuse me for violating my rule-?not to comment on the living. He is a Georgian, of a family long' eminent in professional and military annals in that State. A colony of them came early to Mississippi, bringing with them the family traits and talents, and becoming prominent and influential wherever they pitched their tents. Col. Harris was a man of marked characteristics?impetuous but generous, a sharp debater, a skillful; tactician, arid anywhere and at all times a hard man to head.-^.No man ever left Mississippi with more friends and more' good ^yishes:^^.-Of D. C. Glenn, to this audience, it is almost superfluousffeS^ spea^^Ht*w&8''bfto	-liketap.many of our lawvere^as'ji^^^
a Virginian, with tlfS marked attributes of that 'manly.and^noKlSf^fei
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