His obituary was in The Gastonia Gazette on Tuesday, December 8, 1914.
MR. S. A. GLENN DEAD.
Well-Known York County Citizen Passes Away - A Sketch.
The following sketch of Mr. S. A. Glenn, brief mention of whose death was made in Friday's Gazette, is from Friday's Yorkville Enquirer:
Mr. Samuel A. Glenn, one of the best known and highly esteemed citizens of York, died at his home in Bethel township, last Thursday morning at 2:40 o'clock, after a long and tedious illness, and was buried in Bethel cemetery on Thursday afternoon by the Masons, after Christian services conducted by Rev. R. K. Timmons.
Mr. Glenn was born in the Point section of York county, on December 23, 1839, and lacked just twenty days of being 75 years of age. Practically all of his active business life was spent in the neighborhood in which he was born, and was devoted to farming and merchandising. His public service included four full years in the great civil war from 1861 to 1865, and a few years as deputy sheriff under his brother, the late R. H. Glenn, in the trying Ku-Klux period of the early 70's.
Entering the civil war at the beginning, he became a member of Company A, Fifth South Carolina, Jenkins Brigade, and afterward was transferred to Company B of the 18th South Carolina. He saw service in Mississippi, Florida and Virginia and participated in the battles of First Manassas, Gaines' Mill, Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Gray's Farm, Petersburg and Appomattox. During the whole time he had but two short furloughs, and although on the firing lines of every battle was never wounded.
After giving up his work as deputy sheriff, Mr. Glenn devoted himself to farming and merchandising, at the old Wright place in the Clay Hill section and later engaged in business at Bethel in partnership with the later George L. Riddle, continuing the business until September 1, 1909, when as surviving partner he sold out the stock and retired.
Mr. Glenn was married on December 23, 1873, to Miss Margaret A. Glenn, of Gaston county, the ceremony being performed by the late Rev. Samuel L. Watson. Mrs. Glenn, who is remembered by her acquaintances as a most lovely character, died on January 14, 1883, leaving three daughters, Misses Daisy, Mary and Clara McCaw, who continued with their father, looking after him with most loving care until the end.
The funeral Thursday afternoon was largely attended by people of the Bethel neighborhood and surrounding towns and many Masons from different lodges. The Masonic ceremonies were conducted by Mr. Starr Stacey, worshipful master of Alpine lodge, Clover, of which deceased was a member.
The Enquirer says of Mr. Glenn editorially:
The death of Mr. Samuel A. Glenn, of Bethel, marks the passage of one who was widely esteemed and beloved for his many virtues of heart and mind. Mr. Glenn was a man of high principles, firm convictions, and splendid loyalty. He was courteous and kind under all circumstances to all who were worthy, but was extremely impatient with the mean, low and sordid. Nothing he had was too good for his friends, and no man was allowed to say anything unkind of those whom he esteemed, without being compelled to make good to take the consequences. Everybody esteemed him and most people loved him. He was indeed a golden-hearted gentleman, and he will continue to live in Bethel at least until the passing of all the children of the present generation, and if some day somebody writes a worthy history of the remarkable community in which he spent his life, he will have important and honorable mention in its pages.
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