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The Daily American
Sunday, 3 January 1892

         
         THEIR NAMES WILL LIVE
         
         A Brief Sketch of Three Heroic 
           Colored Firemen
           
         Three men never met a braver or nobler
       death than the three colored firemen who lost
       their lives last night while heroically en-
       deavoring to fight the raging flames.
         All over the city, in all companies and by
       all classes of people, came the ejaculation:
         "They were brave, noble fellows and their
       untimely end and self-devotion shall not be
       forgotten!"
         The colored people of Nashville have good
       reason to feel proud over the heroic deaths
       of these men, and the firemen of the city,
       both white and black, will always pay tribute
       to the memory of these gallant men and useful,
       good citizens.
       
         Capt. C. C. GOWDY was the first captain of
       Stockell Fire Company, No. 4, which was organ-
       ized on Jan. 15, 1885. He has been captain
       ever since, being always unanimously elected.
       He was 38 years old, was born in Nashville
       and leaves a wife and one son, a boy of 15
       years.
         He served as constable from the Sixth Ward
       a number of years ago and was an efficient
       energetic officer.
         In fact, Capt. GOWDY was an honest, upright
       man, a good citizen and a most enthusiastic
       member of the department. He always encouraged
       sobriety and devotion to duty among the men of
       his company, and they in turn held him in the
       greatest esteen, The efficiency and reliability
       of the Stockwell company are too well known to
       need any extended comment, but it should be
       known that Capt. GOWDY made the company what
       it is.
         Capt. GOWDY was a Free Mason and an Odd
       Fellow, and he will be buried with honors
       by the lodges when his remains are recovered.
       His home was at 428 South High street.
       
         J. HARVEY EWING, the pipeman of Stockwell
       No. 4, was 41 years of age, and became a mem-
       ber of the company in April, 1880.
         He was born in Franklin. He leaves a wife
       and a son 10 years old. He was a Mason and
       an Odd Fellow. He took great interest in his
       company and was an honest, peaceable and up-
       right man. He lived at the corner of Cherry
       and Vanderbilt.
       
         STOKELY H. ALLEN, the third of the band of
       heroes, was the reel driver of his company,
       and was 29 years old. He is married and has
       a young daughter. ALLEN was highly thought
       of by all who knew him, both white and black,
       and he was a most efficient fireman, always
       at his post of duty. He lived with his brother-
       in-law at 513 South High street.
       
         The members of the gallant colored fire com-
       pany worked disconsolately but manfully at the
       fire after the horrible death of their comrades.
       And the white firemen also felt the loss of the
       brave men who had so bravely and so often fought
       the flames with them side by side.
         These men deserve and will, no doubt, have
       a large and imposing funeral.
      
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