New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-17
HORATIO SEYMOUR BURIED.
THE FUNERAL CEREoNIEs AT UTICA
LAST TRIBUTES TO TIE DEAD sTATEsMAN-Gov
FRNOR HILLS FULOGY.


UTICA Feb. lG-HoratIO Seymour's death
mourned to-day apparently by every resiuent OF
Utica Business suspended, flags hung at half
mast and private houses and stores drapod with
Dck CLOTH Thousands OF persons attended the funeral
From early in the morning until Up. m a black line OF
people extended from tue lower part OF the city to
Roscoe Conkngs house in the higher portion OF the
place, where MI. Seymour lay state. MI Conklns's
home is large house built many years is far
back from the street in little park and gentle
eminence. The visitors mounted the high steps, and
when the front door open they the coffin in
which Mr.. seymours body rested. The hall is a wide
one and permitted visitors it, pass around the
coffin and outdoors again without entering any other
portion of the house. The coffin red cedar,
cred with black brcadcloth and lined with An
oxydz@d silver plate let into the bore the nscrp
ton: Horatio Seymour. Born May 81, 1910; died
February IL, 1856" Mr.. Seymour clothed In q
black brOadcloth suit. His left rested his
body and his right along his There had fallen
his hands, apparently by accident sprgs OF hemOck and
pine from the grand old trees about his homo at Deer
field The sprigs had been placed in his coffin by his
faithful servants Roberts and DonOhue His face
in death had that kindness OF expression which was
hamtual to it In liie The cheeks slightly sunken,
indicating keen suffering before death.
Across the little covered park came Mt noon
Governor Hill Lieutenant Governor Jones and the
members of the Legislature and of Congress appointed
to do honor TO the dead. The Senate repre-
sented by Senators Slosn Knapp Cullen, COggeshall,
Murphy Plunkitt, DAILY, Durham, Pagan, Nelson.
Parker, Smith and TraI hagen; and the Assembly by
Speaker Hustled, exSpeaker Erwin, and Assemblymen
Hall. Wlite Evans, Lyon, Curtis, Titus, Maxwell,
shcehan. Greene Cutler, Chase, Gordon, Tuck, and
Sergeant Arms Talbot. There also at the same
time Attorney General OBren Secretary OF State Cook
Erastus Corning, Robert H. Maxwell superintendent OF
the Insurance Department; Amasa j. Parker and
Roswell Flower Tue little TIN ong entered Mr. Conk
lng's house and stood around Mr. seymours conn for
few moments contemplating for the last time his benig
nant features. The coffin covered with flowers. a
large cross of purple wood viocts sent by Mrs w
O.. Oakman OF New York, daughter OF Senator
COnklng. She was detained at home by sickness. on
the walls OF the hall portraits Of General Grant,
General Sheridan. Roscoe Conklng, with the dark hair
OF twenty years and several Dne deer antcrs
All the men present made aware before they
entered the house OF the sOGrOwiu circumstances OF MI
seymours death. He had come to Utica with his sick
wife 10 her good medical attendance. Usually
would have gone to the residence Oi his brother,
John f. but owing the presence there OF the
latter's HOIaO Seymour, il, upon visit, he took
his wife the residence OF his sister, Mrs. Conking
There he fell sick chiefly in consequence of anxiety
about his wifes condition The MUSICIAN in attendance
says tha' the affecting he witnessed IN
his life that when Mrs. Seymour carried into
Mr.. Seymour's room 10 bid hun hna farewell
Private funeral held in NJ: Conkling's
house 80 u NJ, the Rev. DT. Goodrich OF Calvary
Church, officiating. The coffin then borne from the
house to The hear,e and funeral procession formed
The pa-bearers took carriages. preceding the hcarse.
on either side OF the driveway before the house
there formed in lire the funeral procession passed
pathetic gathering. II consisted OF sixty orphan girls
with four Sisters OF Charity ana the same number
boys from IT. Vincouts ProectoIare. The girls
white knit hoods with black roseios and black Jackets
snd the boys black ro.nd caps, sailor Jackets blue
ltiicE and gorkiuvs bt,lEes
left when the herse passed the orphans the little
boys raise their hats. While the procession form
ing the boys and girls marched down John Tar
Blocker ST.. where they again stood respectful at
tudes uLtil the last carriage had gone by.
The pail bearers consisten OF the following personal
friends OF the Colonel Frederick \. tonkng,
OF New York: Walter T. Church, Albany; George +.
ComstOck, Syracuse; Charles D. Miller, GEL Senator
Francis Kerran ana william J. Bacon, Utica. The
mourners accompanied the body from the house to
the church John T. Seymour Mrs. Ledyard Lnck-
laen, Mrs shonnard, Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Conklng.
Mrs Morris S. Miller Miss Miller Mr.. aud Mrs. Horaio
Seymour jr., john @. CrocKer, A. H. Greene DR.. and
Mis-. W. L. Fora and Mr.. and Mrs. c. s. lairchiid,
Henry S. Miller aud Misses Miller, tie Rev. aud Mrs
levitt and Mr.. ana Mrs. Wood Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson,
Mrs. Pratt Blocker Tibbltts Judge A. G. Coke, Miss
Gertrude H. Coke Or. william II. Watson and Judge r.
f. Bulger All along the line OF John aud Broad SIS.
large numbers people stood in the cold awaiting the
passage Of the procession Men stood with uncovered
heads as the bearse passed slowly Oh toward Trinity
Church, In Broad-st., where the formal funeral was
held II IS an antique wooden structure bnilt In 1890
The galleries and pillars were draped with black. ihe
coffin rested on black before the altar The pail
bearers occur the in the ccnre OF the
church. the members OF the family sitting directly
behind them. TX Senator Conkng and his wife occu
MED seats there Betud them sat the Legislative and
Congressional committees The service that OF the
Episcopal Church. As the procession entered The house
WAS met door by Bishop Huntington. the rcct"r
OF the church. the Rev. c. ii. Gardner aud the following
clergymen the Rev. Dr. s. H. Coke, the Rev. =. o.
Seymour, the Rev. C. T. Olmstei, the Rev. Dr. A Is.
Goodrich, the Rev. Dr. W. r. Gibson, tho Rev Ber"ard
Schultz, the Rev. G. J. Claasen. the Rev. j. 3. Lemon
aud tue Rev. J. X Parker ST. John Al, %, am the
resurrection and the life" read by the Bishop, and
the anthem from thirty ninth and nnetieth Psalms
was sung Then followed the lesson read at all burial
ser ices and DR.. Muhlcnbcrgs hymn, would not live
Away" was sung Tue hymn, How firm a founda
ton" to the OF Hinton both hymn and tune being
avOrites with the dead also sung after which
the cOnmittal service begun with the sIrinkng OF
earth on the coffin by the Rev s. o. Seymour OF Hart
ford, Conn. The beDedcuOn was pronounced by Bishop
Huntington.
The church services ended Mr.. seymour's tody WAS
taken FOR burial Forrest Hi Cemetery. Ho long ago
selected his monument. It Is simply rough rock that
he found in a field ten years lie then SAID
nature made a for me-" and bought 1t Of
its 1t has peculiar look, Is some two feet IN
breadth by four in length ana thickness. The words
" HoratiO Seymour will he placed on it. Memorial ser
vices held after the services at the church In the
Utica Opera House winch was crOwGed to the doors.
There must have been 1000 persons present. Mayor
Kinney Opened the meeting with speech warmly cuo
CYSTIC of Mr. Seymour He then introduced Governor
Hill said:
FELLOW CITzENs The sage OF Deerheld has departed.
HOnOrea by tho people durinL his long and evenuul
caeeI, he passes away amid the and hon OF
his country lie Christian II ntlcnhn
OF ola school. statesman without stain upon his
record, partisan who loved his party but loved his
country conscientious citizen who NOBLE and
In all the relations OF private life Distinguished
for half century the foremost czen OF New YORK,
his wide the country itself He bODOIed
by the people hau usually fall ~ the lot OF man
Yet fortune did not always smile on him. But defeat
did not dismay sour him. He always The same
afable patriotic, cultivated gentleman. lie Loyalty
starred in the defeats OF his ana ted tue