The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-14
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savannsh'a Odd Follows Hold a Joint
Memorial Service.

The odd Fellows Of savannah held
their Joint memorial services last night az
odd Fellows hail, at the conclusion OF
the routine work Of Oelethorpe lodge,
under the head Of the good and welfare
Of the order What theattendance lacked
in numbers IL made up in earnestness.
Noble Grand w. c. Travis presided.
The first mum Der on the programme was
| the singingof Nearer, My God, to Thee. -
The first speaker was J. s. Tyson, grand
guardian Of the sovereign grand lodge.
THE Supreme Grand Sire" said Mr..
Tyson, sin his wisdom, has seen proper to
remove from earth and its associations
! twenty-eight members and past members
of the Savannah grand lodge since our
last memorial day, a goodly number of
whom were personally known to me and,
therefore, recognizing the appropriate
propriety of these solemn memorials, it is
proper that l should speak of them.
From the representative character of
all of these brothers it is to
be supposed they were men of worth in
their respective spheres in the order;
that each had performed his mission in
furtherance of the great teachings of Odd
Fellowship to the best of his ability, I'm
der the circumstances by which they
were respectively surrounded, and that
as Odd Fellows, teaching the fatherhood
of God and the brotherhood of man, they
were earnest, Jealous and true
''It was my pleasant privilege to call
some of those men friends. | had been
with them often enough and long enough
to learn them well. For these can add my
personal testimony to their individual
worth; not that they manifested any
more zeal or showed any greater ability
than the others, but because knew them
better.'
Isaac Falsom of Arkansas, a physician
of ability, fought the battles of this order
nobly.,
'E. d. Farnsworth of California, past
grand sire, went down at the ripe age of
rs years, dying as he had lived, noble
exponent of our teachings. saw him at
Portland at the last session of the sover-
eign grand lodge Though feeble, and
knowing as he said to me that his end was
near, he rejoiced to be once again among
those with whom he had labored so many
years.
l"Brother Farnsworth visited this city
when grand sire, and by hisqgenial$ fra
ternal manner made many friends among.
the old guard, most of whom have pre-
ceded him through the wilderness.
George w. Adams of our own DeKalb
lodge, a man earnestly devoted to the in
terest of the order, did noble work for it
J
10 dye. He served the grand lodge and
the sovereign grand lodge faithfully and
well and has left a record second to none
in devotion to principle. He had almost
reached four score, being 79 years old at
the time of his death.
"Louis Feldman of Connecticut, a ma
tive of Germany, served with me in COM
mittee in 1875. He was a man of enlarged
views and an earnest worker whose
heart was in the right Dlace
"Henry T. Carey, of Baltimore, Md,
a past grand sire, died at the agefo of II
years. He was a man whose friendship
any one might rejoice to claim. A whole
sOuled, genial gentleman, an able 1urist
and an intelligent worker in the cause of
fraternity, never fer a moment permit
ting an opportunity to pass unimproyed
when Odd Fellowship needed an ad7o-
cate
A. M. alexander of Missouri was one
who, to be appreciated, should have been
known we'll l had the honor of being with
him several years IN the sovereign grand
lodge and by reason of that association
learned to understand him and to sec his
many excellent qualities. Few men were
better qualified or showed a more earnest
| desire to impress the principles of this
order upon the minds of those with
whom he came in contact than he He
died atthe age of So years.
civilian Chidsey of Ohio was another.
In 1875 met him for the first time. Some
how we were thrown together and by
some means were drawn very near to
each other. Natives of adjoining states,
we learned much of each others personal
character, appreciated his many earnest
efforts to build up Odd Fellowship in the
state of his adoption Like Adams and
Farnsworth, he had reached the advanced
age of as years, going down full OF honors
and usefulness.
II might speak of the Others but have
said enough; it is on record that these
men rose to eminence in this order be-
cause OF their devotion to duty. their love
of humanity and their fellow men, thus
showing to their respective Jurisdictions
and the world that they felt Odd Fellow
ship to be a reality, a living principle
worthy of the time and thought of all
men; that its teachings make men better,
more useful to their kind: better fitted
for the duties of this life and the enjoy
ments of that which is to come.
Though the wan rider in his relentless
march to the grave has ridden down our
brothers, we should rejoice that they
lived in our day and generation; that we,
and those to come after, had such exam
pies as are left by them and, bowling in
humble submission to the will of him
who doeth all things well, remember that,
they have gone
"Out of the shadows of sadness
Into the sunshine of gladneSS,
Into the light of the blest.
Out of a land very dreary,
Out Of the world very weary
Into the rapture OF rest"
The next speaker was DIR. L. G. Vass,
D. D., grand chaplain of the grand lodge
of the state of Georgia, whose remarks
were scholarly and instructive.
Past Grand John Houston of Live Oak
lodge made few remarks, stating that
his lodge had been fortunate enough not
to have any deaths the past year.