The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-06-29
Obsequies of the Late Ex-Governor an,
Ex-senator Henry y. Lane.
A Large Number Present, Many Of
Whom Were the Bright Shin
ing Lights Of the Com.
mOnwealth.
Hundreds of Friends and Neigh,
bors Shed Tears of Sorrow
Over His Grave.
The Funeral Address of Rev. John l.
Smith, Of Thorntown.

At 7:45 Tuesday morning the train on
the l., B. and w. Road left the Union Depot
for Charlottesville, bearing those of this
city who VEN to the beautiful Capital OF
Montgomery County to pay their last re
spects to the memory of one of Indiana's
respected citizens, and, by adoption, a IA
vorite son, the late Hon. Henry S. Lane.
The party going from this city consisted OF
the following persons, many of whom are
the first of Indiana's pride and honor: Gov
ernor Porter and wife, Ex-Governor
Thomas A. Hendricks, Senator Benja-
min Harrison, ex-senator Jos. 4. Mcdonald,
Major j: w. Gordon, Colonel w. w. Dud-
ley, Colonel w. r. Holloway and wife,
Judge Woods, of the Supreme Court; Hon.
T.. II. Hawn, Secretary of State, and wife;
Hon. E.. III. Wolfe, Auditor of State; Hon.
X. s. Hill, Treasurer of State, and wife; Hon.
ID. 2. Baldwin, Attorney General; Hon.
Daniel Royse, Clerk of the Supreme Court,
and wife; Hon. F. NJ. Dice, Reporter of the
Supreme Court; ex-Lieutenant Governor,
Hon. Will Cumback; Hon. Walter O..
Gresham, Judge of the United States District
Court; Professor John Collett, State Geolo-
gist; Colonel j. A. Wildman, Postmaster,
and wife; Hon. John NJ. Butler,
Hon. w. S. Robertson and wife, of Fort
Wayne; General Eikin, u. s. A, of Jeffer-
s~onville; Professor J. NJ. Bloss. Superintend-
ent of Public instruction, and wife; General
CarnGhan, Adjutant General. and wife; Rev.
Myron w. Reed, Rev. William A. Bartlett,
Rev. W. p. ~TenBroeck, Hon. William
Wallace, Judge Finch, Captain Nicholson,
of the Police Department; Mrs. Winzor,
State Librarian; Mrs. Colonel Fred Bags
and Mr.. o. ?. Morton, son of the late Senator
Morton.
The press was represented by Miss Laura
Ream, of the Cincinnati Commercial; j. b
Conner, of the Indiana Farmer; E. w.
Halford, of the Journal; Joseph f.. Cobb, of
the Chicago Tribune. and a representative of
the Sentinel.
The Tippecanoe Club of this city was rep
resented by r. Foster, John NJ. Bramwell.
HI. $. Rocky, DR.. Samuel Davis, DIR. Adkin
son, DIR. w. H. Wishard. w. S. Hubbard.
L. III. jameson, A. II. Dawson and j. NJ.
Tilford.
Upon the arrival of the train at Craw-
louisville the party was met by General
Manson, under whose charge the arrange
ments for the funeral had been left. Car
riages were in waiting to convey the party
to the late residence of the deceased,
which is situated some four
or five squares from the
depot. The residence which resembles in
exterior appearance that of Kentucky's great
CommOner, Henry Clay, at Ashland, with
spacious grounds seeded to blue grass, with
large and majestic forest and evergreen
trees with their dense foliage which almost
hid from gaze the plain, transformations,
comfortable, yet ariStOcratic house of the
cold man eloquent" The residence is a
typical, Southern house, two-story brick,
with the traditional portico, wide halls,
great square rooms, not furnished with the
splendor of the Ottoman's, but with a
~nlaInnpSS characteristic of the State from
which Mr.. Lane came, the State in which he
died, and of the true American citizen. The
grounds in front of the residence, facing the
street, were at an early hour filed with peO-
pie from the city, from different parts of the
County, and from the surrounding Coun-
ties. Among those present from a distance
that were noticed aside from those men
toned above were: Hon. r. w Thompson,
ex-Secretary of the Navy; Senator Voorhees,,
Hon. Bayliss w. Hanna. General Charles
Craft and W.. r. Mckeene, of
Terre Haute; Hon. G. S. Orth and w. S.
Jingle. of Lafayette, and Hon. Andrew III.
Hamilton, of Fort Wayne. Prominent
among those of the city of Crawfordsville
and of the County were General Lew Wal
lace, Colonel H. b. Darlington. Hon. ].
Maurice Thompson, Hon. John l.. Wilson.
State Senator L. H. Ristine, Hon. X. T. b.
Pierce, I. ID. Brown County Clerk; +. Nj.
Johnson, County Treasurer; j. II. WATSON,
County Auditor; w. J. Krug, Sheriff; Hon.
J; w. Ramsey, Mayor of the city; Il. I.
v. B. Smith, Chief of the Fire
Department. The funeral ceremonies
were held at the late residence. At
1920 O'Clock Rev. J. w. Harris invoked the
Divine blessing, after which Rev. John L..
Smith, of Thorntown, a lifelong friend of
Senator Lane, delivered the following
funeral address:
ADDRESS OF REV. JOHN L. SMITH, d. d.
Henry Smith Lane was born of highly-respect-
able parents in Montgomery County, Kentucky,
February "a, 1911. His early education was such
as the Common Schools of the country could
bestow. In the sixteenth year of his age he be-
came a student of Judge Silas w. Robins, and at
the end of two years commenced the study of law
with Colonel J. Sudduth, and by writing a part
necessary expenses, and at the end of about three
years bad SO far mastered his chosen profession
moved 10 Charlottesville, and for forty-seven
years had been a citizen OF this city.
In 1887 he was elected to the State Legislature,
and in 1870 he represented the Seventh Indiana
District in the Congress of the United States.
having for his opponent in the canvass the bril-
liant orator, Edward A flanagan, OF Coyington.
close of his second term i'm Congress he returned
to the practice of law until the outbreak Of the
Mexican War. when he at once Organized a com
pany OF volunteers. was elected Captain, and on
t the organization of the First Indiana Regiment
[ was elected Major, and afterward as Lieutenant
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his valiant comrades I'm arms, at the close of the
Wa, were honorably mustered gu
of service. Colonel Lane presided
at the Republican Convention In
l 1856. which nominated John c.. Freemon fol
Y President of the United States, and on February
p, 1850, was nominated by reclamation for Gov
ernor, aud elected by about 10000 majority. The
Legislature, however, in obedience TO the wishe
of the people, soon called him from the higf
honors of the gubernatOrial chair TO a seat in Ih'
, Senate of the United States. to which, from hi
long and faithful public services, he was so just,
O entitled. Throughout his six years service a
/, Senator In Congress, embracing as they did tn
dark and dreadful years of the late Rebellion
a Colonel Lane was ever at his post q
Il duty, with a consuming zeal and sleeI
= less vigilance. watching. guarding and pro
u noting by his sympathy and love for tn
b soldier In the field, or his commanding ~infuenc
in the Senate. the important and sacred trust
committed to his hands by a confding public
At the close of his Senatorial term he returne
to private life, 20 enjoy, among his old friend
10 and neighbors, the sweet recollections that eve
come 20 the heart of the true and faithful publ
servant the consciousness of answering hde
d ity. He had the proud satisfaction that, ha'
Al ing given the best years of his life 10 his countr.
in his quiet and pleasant home, surrounded b
friends and admirers, and in the midst of una
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