The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-26
TnE LATE HoMlCrpE-FuSERAL OF AMOS

TnE LATE lIoa,clpE- FuNERAL OF AMOS
pREsxNrMExr or McDoNALp, GoLlBART, Ann
CLARK.-Thc funeral of Berry Amos took
| place Yesterday. There was quite hume.
rous attendance Of his friends, and also OF
the friends Of Mrs. Amos, his widow, who
| is an exemplary member of the new Iude-
pendent Methodist church, called the Tabcr.
nacle. at the corner OF John and Bond
streets. the members Of which testified their
sympathy with the distressed wife BY many
acts and expressions of kindness and esteem
for her. The mother Of Amos, who resides
in Richmond, Va, did not come on TO the
| funeral but nephew, Mr.. Minor, of Rich.
mond. was present, having arrived Tuesday
morning.
Mrs. Amos sat in the room near the head
Of the coffin. aSSiduousiy and tcndcrly sup
ported by the attentions Of her son by her
tirSt marriage and several friends. The son
Is young man, in respectable business po-
Sition in AlcXandria, Va, where he is located
"a agent for the Wheeler IL Wilson Sewing
Machine Company. When the pall.bearcrs
were about TO advance to remove the remains
10 the hearSe Mrs. Amos bent over the life
less form in an agony" of grief, and it was Il
minute or more before her nearest friends
had the heart TO take her away, to follow. a
few minutes afterwards, the remains TO the
grave in Greenmount Cemetery.
The pall-bcarers were MeSsrs. O. II
Vaughan. 4. Bond. Charles Gibson, Wash
ington Goodrich. w. c. Schulz. and John
Murphy. and were all tall, strengthening
men. i'll the prime Of life. Among those
present and eYincing warm sympathy for
the hcTraycd We're Mr.. Stirling Thomas and
Mr. Hascrty, justice of the peace.
Berry Amos. the deceased, married Mrs.
Amos. who was then Mrs. Big.S, the Wild
CIV Of William BiggS, 4 butcher, OF this city,
who formerly had 4 store on the corner of
! Lombard street and Marsh Market space,
| the marriage with Amos taking place seven
| teen OF eighteen years ago in Norfolk, Va,
where she then resided. and WAS engaged in
the millinery business. Amos was born in
| Manchester. Va. and was I'M his torty-sec0nd
| Year at his death. During the war between
| the States he served in the Ca>kic Rangers,
ConfcdcrateS, Mr.. Wayne, from whose house
! hr Was buried, having been his lieutenant in
that company. and remaining always much
attached 10 him. Indeed. his friends gay he
was very amiablc in the domestic circle, at
tachcd to his wife, the friend of children
| rhough having none of his OWN, many in
the ncichhorhood OF Mr.. Wayne calling him
iamilmrly by atlectionate names, and that his
home life and his life outside, with which
the public have been made so well ac-
quain.ed in consequence of the bloody
tragedy enacted at his death, were two en-.
ircly different lives. At home he was gen.
tie. placlbe aud easily controlled. It is said
be was 10 have gone into the hGckstcring
business again in Il week or two.
The grand jury Of the Criminal Court yes.
icrday made presentments against Samuel
| W. Mcdonald, charged with the wi!ful
murder Of Berry Amos on the Esd Of June.
1874.
The grand jury also presented Henry
| Golbart and William Clark, charged with
being accessories TO the murder of Berry
! amnS - HnLtLln0ro SIM olih