Smyrna times., 1865-03-09

hour before the time of meeting; in fact there
we're enough persons present to fill two or three
churches. About half past three the church
bell tolled in deep and solemn tones the funer-
Il Lnell that announced the movement of the
,ortege which moved in the following order:
Clergy.
Bearers.
Members of the family.
Chancellor and Secretary of State.
Judiciary.
Speaker and Clerk of Senate.
Members of Senate.
Speaker and Clerk of House.
Members of the House.
Representative in Congress aud Representa-
tive elect and other officers of the State.
Mayor and Council of Wilmington.
Military officers
Members of the Bar.
Citizens.
The funeral sermon was preached by the
Rev John +. Chaplain, an old friend Of the
deceased. He was assisted in the exercises by
Revs T. J. Thompson, Adam Wallace, An
drew Manship and L. c. Lockwood. After
the conclusion of the services, the lid was re-
moved from the coffin to give the congregation
an opportunity to look at the corpse. The
coffin was very handsome-covered with black
velvet, silver mounted, and bearing upon it a
breast plate with the following inscription:
WILLIAM CANNON,
GOVERNOR OF DELAWARE.
Born March 18th, 1909, died March lst, 1865.
At half past five the procession moved to
the grave in the church yard adjoining, and all
that was mortal of William Cannon was lower
ed into the silent grave to be forever hid from
mortal view. The manifestations of griet on
the part of the stricken family were strong,
deep, soul absorbing, and moved many strong
hearts that witnessed the scene. They have
left them houses, lands, comforts and friends
without number, but their great light has gone
out and left them in gloom, sorrow and dark
ness. 1t is verify strange Providencel
| Gov. CannOn's illness-typhoid pneumonia
is supposed to have resulted from late fire
in Bridgeville which with his accustomed ener-
gy and earnestness he labored intensely to sup
press, At one time it is said his clothes were
on fire, and it was from the effects of the buck
ct of water thrown on him then that resulted
In the disease that caused his death.
The pall-bearers were
John P. McLear, Achilles HOllingsworth,
DR.. Isaac Jump, Manlove Hayes,
John r. McIree, Benjamin Burton,
Joshua Sharp, Stephen NJ Morgan.
Among the distinguished citizens of oul
State present were Chancellor Harrington, and
Sec. of State Harrington, Judges Layton
Houston and Wales, John A. Nicholson, Rep
elect to Congress, Attorney General Moore
members of the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives, City Council of Wilmington, the
Bar, and prominent citizens whom we hav,
not time to mention. But for the very incle
ment weather the number from distanc,
would have boen doubtless more than doubled
At the close of an attentively listened to ser
mon by the Rev. John +. Chaplain from
Ii Timothy ii, lit is faithful saying
for if we be dead with him we shall also liv,
with him: :" he read the following interesting
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
William Cannon, Governor of Delaware
/ died at his residence in Bridgeville, Del, a
about three o'clock, in the morning of Marcl
lst, 1865. He was the son of Isaac and Name
, Cannon, and was born on the Stansbury Jacobs
farm, in the neighborh0od of Trinity on tn
18th day of March, in the year 1909. At hi
/ death he lacked few days of completing tn
56th year of his age.
Ia the fifth year of his life his parents move
: TO Bridgeville, and this became the nlace .
s his residence, from which he never remove
n till called to a mansion in heaven. His fathe
was Methodist exhorter. His mother was
i and he often spoke Of the intense fervor of he
}. JOY: She would sometimes shout while ht
little son was in her arms. :.
In this religious home-culture were doub
less sOwn the seeds of piety which matured il
TO the life of faith Of his riper years.
In the days of his bOyhOOd, the neare
a church was at st. JOhnstown, and subseouen
h y the people Of God began to worship in
a, barn on the farm now owned by Loxley
OF Jacobs.
At camp meeting held in Russell's WOO,
In August, 1925, the convicting spirit of GC
re smote him with penitential grief. He saw h
ng lost and undone estate as guilty and CO
he demned sinner. He bowed ut the altar al
A made puplic confession Of sin. He looked
ad Christ as his only and all-suficient Sayiou
,m lie trusted with all his heart in the proyisio
IN. Ct the atoning scheme. The witness Of 4
ity Spirit gave the full pledge of the acceptance
III his consecrated being; he passed from dea
~ unto life. Heavenly peace and 10y in the HC
ZEN Ghost filed his soul, and he felt and knew II
Sc he was made by saving grace. a reeeneyat
At and adopted child Of God Thus in his seve
ans teenth year he remembered his Creator.
-: the same meeting John III. Twiford made
Use public profession of religion.
icy Very soon after. his conversion he began
exhort sinners TO fee from the wrath 10 con
and before the death of his mother, who h
car so eften prayed for him, and shouted with d
in her arms, he was both class-leader and
on eyhortar in the Methodist Episcopal Chur
Gan He held these official positions before he /
0iy attained his twentieth year.
entt In 1880 his health was so insrm, In COZ,
,sv quence Of q bilious difficulty, that DR.. Ca
ter on horseback. He took the advice, and ia
lly, ing from his home under the influence of 4
r;,v solute will, which never ia after life shoy
much disposition TO give way before diff
per ties, he made a horseback tour Of the State
t0hio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky.