, 1891-09-22
BURIED WITH HGNoRs.
Funeral Of the Late Theodore
Wedemeyer on Sunday.
The Remains Followed to the Grave
by a Host of Friends.
Knights OF Pythias, Cheyenne Guards
and Mail Clerks in Line.

Early Sunday morning the passenger
train on which were the remains OF Mail
Clerk Wedemeyer arrived from the west.
Accompanying the remains were boxes
and wreathes of flowers. One box was
sent by Chief Clerk Orchard of the rail
way mail service stationed at Ogden.
Under the string by which one wreath of
flowers were tied was letter, of which the
following is an exact copy. The letter
was addressed to Mrs. Wedemeyer. Theo,
dore's mother. and read:
DEAR MADAM-In this, your time of
sorrow and bereavement, accept the heart
felt sympathy of the railway postal clerks
whose good fortune it has been to possess
the friendship of him whose untimely end
you now mourn. Before the Great
White Throne" he has passed his final
examination. ard we who knew him an
not but believe that the recording angel
wrote one hundred per cent, and the
angel chorus sang the glad refrain
''Well Done, Thou Good and Faithful
Servant, Enter Thou Into the Joy of Thy
Lord"
Ogden. Utah, Sept. IS, 1891.
At the depot the remains were taken
in charge by Chancellor Commander
Clarke. w. NJ. Clark and Ralph Adamskv
of the Knights Of Pythias and Mail Clerk
F. A. M. Stewart.
To the undertaker's the casket was
taken, and from there to the Wedemeyer
residence. At 2 o'clock the knights of
Pythias, Cheyenne guards and postal
clerks, headed by the city band, formed
in line and marched to Wedemeyer's and
from there accompanied the remains to
the Congregational church at the corner
OF Capitol avenue and Nineteenth street.
The rear of the procession, which reached
from the church almost to the viaduct,
was made up of the friends
of the deceased in carriages. The
The day was perfect. Tho quiet calm OF
the afternoon was broken only by the tap
of the drum and the measured tread of the
solemn marchers. Knights Ralph Adam
sky. William Geddes, w. M. Clark
and G. F. Fellows. Mail Clerks
E. W. Field, Frank Johnston and
w. II. Rhroads and Geo. Artist of
the Cheyenne guards we're the pail
bearers. Entering the church first after
the corpse and mourners were the Knights
of Pythias. Next came Postmaster Mas
and Chief Clerk Nichols followed by ovel
twenty postal clerks, letter carriers and
postofice employees. With the clerks wa.
also Assistant Superintendent Masten o.
the railway mail service. Company B
| brought up the rear. The coffin and altar
were lavishlv decorated with flowers.
Rev. Geo. Kicker delivered a short
prayer and the funeral sermon was
preached by Rev. W. P. Crowell. He
took for his text these words: To-day if
you will hear HIS voice harden not your
heart" The voice of the Lord had
spoken loudly to this community during
the past week. Rev. CroweIl said that
life was uncertain and from this stand
point delivered a beautiful sermon.
At the cemetery the burial service of
the Knights OF Pythias was read over the
grave, after which a musical selection was
chanted. A salute was fired over the
grave by a squad of company B and the
last tribute of respect 10 the dead was the
shrill note of the bugle sounding taps
over his grave.