Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-31
FUNERAL OF ELDER !. T. HUNDLeY.
Attende ed Nv People from Middlesex, King
and Queen, and Essex.
correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.l
D,,SNsyII.LE. December %, 1890

correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.l
DrNNsy11LE. December IS, 1890
The funeral services of Elder John /.
Hundley came off III the Rappahannock
church at this place at 2 O'Clock Z. Nj. yes
terday. Rev. ]. Harvey Hundley, of the
Episcopal church, conducted the services:
After reading appropriate passages OF
Scripture, and the choir. assisted by some
of the audience. singing the hymn There
is Fountain Filled with Blood" Rev.
Francis Scott, Of the Baptist church. Of
fered most appropriate and soul-stirring
prayer. followed by Elder L. b. Bagby. who
preached the funeral discourse, based upon
the 18th chapter of /. Corinthians, IN
which he took brief review of the life
and character of deceased. He WAS fol-
lowed by Rev MIR. Hundley from the words
applied 20 Abel, Though he be dead. yet
speaketh," and made most appropriate APP
plication of them TO the death Of Elder
Hundley.
THE PALL-BRAEERs.
The congregation then sang. and whilst
singing the pall-hearers, consisting OF
Deacon Robert l.. Ware, G. II. ballard,
Hon. T. X. b. Wright. DR.. w. u. Jefries.
Elder II. IL. Waring. and Thomas Nj. Hen;
ley, bore the casket from the church and
placed it upon an imprOmptu hearse;
when the line of profession was formed
for Ben Lomond, the place of burial, fol-
lowed by the largest concourse of people
ever assembled in this vicinity upon such
an occasion. There were people from Mid
dlesex, King and Queen, and Essex-whlte
and colored-a very large number OF the
latter. The procession was over hall q
mile in extent. Buggies, carriages,
wagons, horseback, and upon foot the
people came to attest the hlgh esteem III
which the deceased was universally held
and so greatly beloved. Another and some
what exceptional evidence of the earnest
devotion Of the people among whom Elder
Hundley lived and worked was that during
his illness special prayers were often oher-
cd for him and his family in the colored
churches and prayeT-meetings OF the col
ored people OF the district. Rev. Mr,
Hundley read the services of his Church at
( fine crave aud the HYMN Home of the
/ Soul p" was most pathetically and sweetiy
sung, when the vast throng OF sorrowlng
[ hearts sadly moved away.
Mr.. J. T. ATKINS DEAD.
Mr.. John t. Atkins. aged seyentv-four
wears. long q most highly esteemed citizen
/ of this vicinity, died ut his home on We'd
[ nesday at 10 O'Clock z. NJ, Path. Mr..
[ Atkins was regarded as one the best corn
I growers in all this section Of his county.
/ He believed in and adhered to the old
fashion mOdus operdndi of culture, and
I when others were lamentlng their sad lall-
ure and shortage in their crop and greatly
/ perplexed rs to what TO attribute 1t MIR.
/ Atkins had his cause of failure ready
want of work. and hoe work at that. d
Mr. Atkins leaves Gne landed estate near
the Rappahannock river, shut OF from II
by one farm only, but through which he
had full neiehborly ingress and egress.
Every acre of Mr.. Atkins's land he pur.
chased from the results of his own hard
manual labor and untiring energy. Most
of his land, too. he purchased at the high
prices which Peruvian guano had stimu-
lated about 1866 and 1851
1t is now showing here, and indications
point to heavy tall. u