Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-15
HON. VIM, Fl. WEEKS.
His Grave in the State Plat Unmarked
and Torgotten.

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| The REcoRp-IrSrox. OF Sacramento, publishes
very interesting Biographical sketches o. "a. .ie
States honored dead who lie Durlen III Tn, ele
i States cemetery plat in the Capitai ol,y. pue
in its list it leaves out one of the early
| of liberty and the rights of man ana delenders
of the Union, whose eloquence ana GiaIioii
voice stirred the people of the state, III .le sai-
leys and the mountains, cities, tONlls any nilt
ing camps to patriotic zeal in the cause OF coun-
| try and humanity. We refer TO the non. VIM:
| II. Weeks the first Republican secretary %
| State elected by the people OF Calliornla. Gud
\ who was elected on the Republican State tlcAet
with Governor Stanford in 1862 ana died IN
Office full of hOnorS. If the RECoRD-CSIo3. WIN
refer to the files Of the old sacramento tttoit;
Of lS6564, it viii find not only pi3gtpiileai
sketch of the honored dead, but also the action
of the Legislature of that session IN honor OF ms
memory. five are not mistaken, Mr.. Weeks
lies buried in the State plat with tnose otii I
State officers who died in the service OF tne
state-and he certainly was not least among the
States dead servants.
The above appeared in the Oakland
Tribune of Saturday. The article referred
to in the RECORD MON was carefully COM
piled from all the data obtainable. There
are but eight graves marked in the State
plat, which is splendidly sodded to blue
grass, and but five of those are marked
with suitable monuments. There does not
seem to have been any record kept of the
interments in this plot by the State author
tiles. and no special record has been kept
by the Superintendent of the Cemeteries.
The Tribune is right The register at the
cemetery, on the date of August Is, 1868,
under the head of interments, has the fol-
lowing: william II. Weeks, State plat"
The Daily Union of August II, 1868,
editorially said William II. Weeks, Sec
rotary of State, died yesterday. He was
native of Waldo county, Maine. and was
at one time District Attorney for that
county. He arrived in California in the
year 1910 and went to the mines on the
Mokelumne at a locality known as Big
Bar. He remained there until the spring
OF 1850 when he left for San Francisco,
and soon formed a partnership with Louis
r. Lull in the practice of the law Suisse
quently he removed to Sacramento, and in
1857 was candidate for District Attorney
of this county, but withdrew from the
canvass in favor of r. II. Morrison, who
was elected When Abraham Lincoln was
called TO the Presidential chair, Weeks,
having been elected one of the Electors in
this State, was chosen as the messenger TO
convey the vote to Washington. On the
election of Leland Stanford Governor in
1861, w. H. Weeks was appointed Secre-
tary of State, which Office be held at the
time of his death"
The Daily Union of August 49, 1863, To-
cally said The funeral of w. H. Weeks,
late Secretary of State, took place yesterday
forenoon. The remains were removed to
the Assembly Chamber, where, in silver
mounted rosewood coffin, they were placed
on a table appropriately draped, in front of
the Speakers stand. A silver plate on the
coffin bore the following inscription w.
H Weeks, Secretary of State of California,
died August 16, 1865, aged 56 years The
room was visited by a large number of
persons, most of whom had known the de-
ceased while living The Rev j. L. Peck
administered the religious rites of the
occasion, reading from the Scriptures, de-
livering an appropriate address and con-
Guiding with prayer The coffin was
then removed to the hearse, c. II. Swift,
Robert Robinson, DIR. Nixon, l.. II. Foote,
j. Bailey, c. 2. Huntington, A. J. Elder
and Charles Crocker acting as pall-bearerS.
The funeral procession formed and moved
in the following order: Company |, Cap
tain Witham, First California Cavalry
National Guards, Lieutenant Welty; City
Guard, Lieutenant Friend carriage with
clergy hearse, drawn by four black horses;
carriages with Governor and State officers;
carriages with citizens. The procession
moved to the City Cemetery, where the in
terment took place in the Legislative plot,
where rests the remains of Ferguson, Bel,
Campbell and others who at the time of
their death were members of the Legisla-
ture or held State offices -