Huntsville gazette., 1890-03-29
LAID TO REST.

funerai OF General Crook at Oakland, Md.
"A Large Concourse of People Present.
Including Large Representation of the
War Department, Prominent Citizens
and Others-Veterans of the Civil War
Out in Force.
BALTIMORE, Md, March 25.-The
Suns special from Oakland. Md, saws:
General George Crook, IT, S. A., was
buried here yesterday. The arrange
ments for the funeral were made by Mr.
ID. E. Ofutt, of Oakland. who for many
years had been an intimate friend of
General and Mrs. Crook. The trains ar
irving from East and West were crowded
with persons who came to pay the last
tribute of respect to the dead General.
The following officers and others ar
rived from Washington Sunday night
to be present at the interment: General
Samuel Beck, Assistant Adiutant-Gen-
eral, U. S. A.; Lieutenant Charles B.
Schofeld; Captain Geo. S. Anderson, of
the Sixth Cavalry; Captain John G.
Bourke, of the Third Cavalry, who was
for many years Adjutant under General
Crook, all of whom represented the War
Department; W. J. Hancock, superin-
tendent of the Wells-Fargo Express at
New York, and Mrs. Hancock; Con-
gressmen Mckinley, of Ohio, and Dor
sey, of Nebraska, and General Nathan
Golf, of West Virginia.
On the mourning train were Captain
w. E. Griffiths and others from Cumber-
land.
Grand Army Hall was draped in
mourning, and Oakland Post presented
a very handsome floral tribute The
funeral train did not arrive until two
o'clock in the afternoon-four hours
late-notwithstanding a dispatch was
sent out from Baltimore claiming that
it had arrived at ten o'clock and that
the funeral occurred at eleven. There
was large crowd at the depot. The
funeral party occupied a special car,
which was side tracked. The casket
was opened at the railroad platform,
and the large crowd present had an OPP
portunity to view the remains The
procession was then formed, with the
Grand Army men in front.
The services at the grave consisted in
reading a few passages of Scripture
from the Nineteenth chapter of Job and
the Fourteenth chapter of ST. Johns
Gospel, and prayer by Rev. J. E. Mof-
fatt, and the benediction Ia Rev. J. w.
w. Bolton, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Owing to the dislike of General Crook
for display the army officers were in citi-
zens clothes. The only persons in uni
form were the six soldiers who bore the
casket to its resting place.
Assistant Adiutant-Gene,'. Carbin
had charge nf the funeral party and
there were with him Colonel E. d. Heyer,
Inspector-General, Colonel L. Ell. STAN
ton, Of the Pay Department.; G. M. Ran
dali; Major G. S. Roberts and Lieuten-
ant Kennon, of General Crooks staff
and Mrs. John S. Collins, of Omaha.
Ex-President Hayes also accompanied
the party as far as Fostoria, O., and his
son, Webb Hayes, came on to Oakland.
The floral tributes were numerous
and handsome. An express wagon was
pressed into service to haul them to the
cemetery.
The veterans of the late war living in
Oakland and neighborhood attended
the funeral in force. There was almost
a total suspension of business, and the
people turned out en- masse and accom-
panied the remains to their last resting
place Mrs. Crook and Mrs. Reed, her
sister, will remain here for several
days at least