The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-11-06
Sudden Death of Ex-GOV. Albert s
MARKS

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| Suddenly, without any warming to
| himself or his friends, the icy hand OF
Death was laid upon one of Tonnes
sees truest SONS last Wednesday, and
Elk Gov. Albert s. Marks was called
to his eternal home.
There was no premonitinn, save
perhaps the unconscious influence OF
| impending doom which caused his
| last day on earth: to be singularly
sweet and charitable.
Upon retiring at his usual hour
! Tuesday night in his room at the
Maxwell House he made mention OF
a feeling of depression in his chest,
presumably the effect of his cold, but
his sleep was unbroken until 3o'clock
| yesterday morning, when he found
his position in the bed uncomfortable.
In trying to change his breathing was
interrupted and he had a slight
hemOrrhage.
Mrs. Marks, who was with him,
| applied mustard and hot water and
made several Intellectual attempts to
procure some brandy from neighbors
in the hotel.
Returning to her room ex-Gov.
Marks spoke his last words:
II am fainting."
Thoroughly alarmed, she succeeded
in arousing DR.. J. NJ. Harding, who
occupies rooms across the hall.
When she returned respiration had
ceased, and when DR.. Harding ar
rived there was no sign of pulse either
in the wrist or carotid arteries.
Resort was had to brandy and the
electric battery.
DR.. Briggs was called in and the
elder DIR. Harding, but all efforts at
resuscitatiOn were of no avail.
In less than fOrtyIfive minutes af-
ter the patient was taken ill lie was
dead.
Friends IN the hotel rendered every
assistance required by the terribly
bereaved widow.
Cornelius & Co took charge of the
remains and caused an inquest to be
held, which resulted in verdict of
death from heart failure. The body
was embalmed and prepared for
burial in Theoretically sealed casket.
Mr.. Albert ID. Marks, the younger
son of the Ex-Governor, met the
many friends aud sympathizers who
called on himself ard his mother,
whose prOstration forbade her to re-
ceiVe them.
The news was telegraphed to Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur H. Marks at Win
chester, and they arrived Oh the af-
The exc vernon has been a citizen
of Franklin County for the past
thirty-eight years, and he has repeat
eddy expressed the wish that his re-
mains be inferred in Franklin County
soil. Arrangements were, therefore,
made for his burial at Winches-
ter at noon to-day. The three great
corporations of which he was local
attorney, the Tennessee Coal, Iron &
Railway Company, the Nashville,
Chattanooga & st. Louis Railway
| Company and the Pullman Palace
| Car Company, rendered their servi-
| ces and members of the Pullman
| Company telegraphed from Chicago
their intention to be present at the
! funeral.
The private car b, longing to the
tennessee Coal, Iron & Railway Com
pany was accepted as funeral coach
in v hich the remains will be guarded
by twenty members of the Frank
Cheatham BivOuac, together with
Capt. John r. Handy, Avery Hand
ly, Lieut.. G.. r. Handy and Mr.. J. ).
Reeves, fellow citizens of Franklin
County and fellow soldiers in the
Seventeenth Tennessee regiment, of
which the Ex-Governor was Colonel
The funeral cOrtege leaves this
morning for Winchester on the regu-
lar 80 o'clock train.
The number who accompany the
remains is to be very large, Including
ajOrity of the members of the bar,
the State officials, the old soldiers
and prominent citizens of Nashville
There will be no services over the
remains in Nashville, and the burial
at Winchester, which is in charge OF
the Confederate BivOuacs, will be
simple.
Rev. John D. Floyd, of Shelbyville,
a member of his regiment, will Off
c1ate.