Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 638-642 [Hickman]

     ELIPHALET CASE.  When Eliphalet Case was called to the home
beyond one more name was added to the list of honored dead whose
earthly record closed with these words, "Well done, thou good and
faithful servant." but as long as memory remains to those who knew
him the influence of his noble life will remain as a source of
encouragement and inspiration.  "Our echoes roll from soul to soul,"
and the good we do lives after us through all ages, handed down from
generation to generation.  Who, then, can measure the results of a
life work, and especially such a life work as that of Eliphalet
Case?   To his fellow men his best energies were ever devoted.  With
unerring judgement he recognized the "spark of divinity" in each
individual and endeavored to fan it into a flame of righteousness. 
Not to condemn but to aid, he made the practice of his life; and the
world is better and brighter for his having lived.  But though the
voice is stilled in death, the spirit of his worth and work remains
as the deep undercurrent of a mighty stream, noiseless, but
irresistible.
     No history of Carlisle county would be complete without mention
of Eliphalet Case.  He was born in Warren county, Indiana, on the
5th of June, 1821, and passed the eighty-first mile stone on life's
journey.  Hardships, trials and unremitting labor were his lot in
boyhood.  His father died during the infancy of the son, and when
but seven years of age Mr. Case was left an orphan by the death of
his mother.  From that time forward the period of his life which
should have been bright and joyous, free from care and happy with
the pleasures of youth, was burdened with responsibility and arduous
work.  At the age of nine years he was apprenticed to one who proved
a cruel and vindictive master.  He suffered hardships greater
perhaps than have ever been pictured as devolving upon the luckless
slave.  It is wonderful that he accomplished as much in life as he
did, but he had a nature that rose above all the environments of his
early youth, sought the things that are best in life and developed
into a character whose grandeur has been an inspiration for many. 
In early boyhood he came to Hickman, Kentucky, and here for a very
brief time he was led from the strict path of rectitude by worldly
companions, but soon, through the influence of a most estimable
lady, he returned to the straight and narrow path in which he
continued to walk throughout the remaining days of his life.  For
more than a half century he was a pillar in the church, and his life
a criterion of good citizenship and an example for emulation.  In
early youth he had learned the tailor's trade and became a
journeyman tailor.  At the time of his arrival in Hickman in 1842
the place was a struggling hamlet of about three hundred
inhabitants.  Upon the hillside grew clusters of oak, poplar and
other trees, and the most far-sighted could hardly realize that
these would give way to handsome homes and thriving business
interests which were to establish a city of importance in
southwestern Kentucky.  Mr. Case, however, with wonderful foresight,
believed that Hickman was destined to become a place of considerable
size, and resolved to open a tailoring shop here.  This he did, and
for nearly forty years conducted business along that line.  As the
town grew his patronage increased and he always maintained a
foremost place as a representative of his line of work.  In his
business affairs he prospered, and he evidenced his confidence in
the city's future by his investments in business, residence and
other property.  This returned to him an excellent income and proved
as well a benefit to the city.  He erected three of the stores
occupied by leading merchants of Hickman, and his enterprise was a marked
factor in the improvement of the town.
     From the time of the organization of the Republican party until
his death, Mr. Case was one of its most stalwart supporters.  He
courageously upheld his principles even during the Civil war when
the majority of his old friends and neighbors were strong in the
advocacy of the Confederate states.  Though he never tried to hide
his opinions, in fact, announced them on all suitable occasions, he
always enjoyed in the highest degree the respect, confidence and
continued friendship of those with whom he was associated, and that
he was held in the highest regard and that he enjoyed the good will
of his fellow men is shown by the fact that he was retained as a
member of the city council and as mayor of the city for a period of
eighteen years, and during that entire period he was also postmaster
of Hickman.  No public trust reposed in him was ever betrayed in the
slightest degree.  He was ever loyal to duty and to the right, and
he would never compromise his position in the least by a
questionable method of practice.  His church relationship was
maintained with the Baptist denomination, and he was untiring in his
efforts to advance its interests.  He was also very active in behalf
of temperance and was spoken of as a Neal Dow.
     At the age of twenty-eight years Mr. Case was united in
marriage to Mrs. William B. Holt, who was a widow with three
children, and by her second marriage she became the mother of three
children, but are all now deceased.  Her death occurred February 7,
1895, and on the 19th of September, 1897, Mr. Case was again
married, his second union being with Mrs. Isabelle Adams, a widow. 
She was born in Stewart county, Tennessee, July 23, 1848, and was a
daughter of Orville and Mary N. Champion.  Her father was a native
of South Carolina, while her mother was from Tennessee.  He died in
1883 at the age of seventy-two years.  Mrs. Case was the ninth in a
family of eighteen children, and has been married three times.  In
December, 1870, she became the wife of Charles Adams, who died in
1873, leaving two children: Mary Y. and Charlie Lena.  Her second
husband was Henry Brown, by whom she had one child, Harriett [sic]
Idella.
     Mr. Case was a man of noble character, of kindly and charitable
spirit, and his life was one of marked helpfulness.  He reared
fourteen orphan children, one of whom, Edward Case, is now engaged
in business in Hickman.  His usefulness was recognized in every
honorable walk of life--in business, where he was straightforward;
in citizenship, where he carried out his belief that it was every
man's duty to support the principles in which he believed lay the
welfare of the country; in social life, where he held friendship
inviolable; in the church, where he was true and consistent; in the
home, where the obligations of husband and father were very dear and
sacred to him.
"He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again."

Case Holt Adams Champion Brown
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Carlisle-KY Warren-IN Stewart-TN SC

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