Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-12-17
AT REST
Judge Nusent's Body
Laid Away.
TENDERLy 1T Is DEPOSITED on
THE OLD FARM
WEEPING THOUSANDS
RECEIVE THE HEhAINs At STE
PHENvuLE AND ACCOMPANY
THEM TO THE GRAVE.
The sia.ons Perform the Last sad
Rite. over the Corpse of Their
Dead Comrndo
WEEPING THOUSANDS

Rarely have arrangements for run
eral attracted wider attention or their
contamination been viewed with more
fearful sorrow and sympathy than In
the preparations made to consign to Its
last resting place all that was mortal
OF Judge Thomas l.. Nugent. lawyer.
statesman and patriot. Sadly and sor-
rowfully were the details completed,
and then when the hour for departure
came the people seemed loath to give
up one whom In life they had esteemed
and whom they reyercd In death.
The hour for the departure OF the
remains was fixed at 3 o'clock Sunday
morning, Long before that time scores
OF people had called to take last
look NJ the dead and mayhap to leave
a tribute OF ilowcrs.
About o'clock the funeral party
left the residence for the union depot,
large numbers OF people going by car
riage or other conveyance, The special
train consisted of an engine, baggage
car and passenger couch. The casket
was placed In the baggage ear. where
II was henpcd with flowers Around II
were seated Mrs. Thomas L., Nugent.
William u Nugent, Clarence Nugent.
widow and sons OF the Judge; w. s.
Essex, his law partner; Mrs. Essex,
/ MI. anu AlIFs Ibln W NlaNr
| w. u. Harris of the Seventeenth dis
| trict court, Hon. r. Y prlgomrc. Il.
| w. Yates and Mrs. Belle NJ. Burchil.
In the passenger coach We're seated
the Fort Worth delegation: w. p Me-
Lean, N. H.. LassIter, j. NJ Moore,
Seth W. Stewart. II. Il. Eubank. Theo-
dore Mack, John Il. Cushmun. u. q.
Thurman. G. j. Shapard George q.
| McGown. a. Arneson, II, II smith, NJ.
! d. Priest. Il. A. Pecler Colonel j Pc
ter Smith l.. Calhoun. s. o, Noodle.
Judge John $. Triplett. Judge j. c.,
Randolph, Mrs. Rood. Colonel j. Y.
Hoggsett. DR., Ellen Lawson Dabbs
aud others, Many OF the gentlemen
were accompanied by their wives.
The train moved out promptly nj 0
CLOCK. 1t was in charge of General
SUPERINTENDENT OF Transportation John
| H. Huddleston.
The first stol was made at Cresson,
whore q delegation Joined the party,
Here large party Of citizens were
assembled with heads uncovered and
many were weeping. II was the same
at the other places The nearer the
train approached the dend jurists old
home the larger the gathered crowds
and the more Affecting the emotion
they manlfested.
AZ Granbury large delegation Join
ed the funeral party. At the depot were
hundreds OF peoplr-almost the entire
town. 1t seemed--assemblcd as mark
OF respect to Judge Nugents memory
Tho last stop was at Bluffdnlc. aud
here the same scene was enacted as at
other places.
The train reached Stcphenvilie Mt Il
o'clock, noon. At this place was Indeed
an Affecting scene, II was the old home
OF the deceased. Here he had fought
many of the battles of life and come
out conqucror, Here he had reared his
family, and here he had received de-
l H.I a "A
young knew him and loved him, ant
the entire town rose en- masse TO attest
his worth, Men say II was the largest
assemblage at n funeral they ever wit
messed. Lawyers from many town
were there with streaming eyes wht
had grown up under the dead judge
tutelagc, and their emotion extended I,
all the crowd.
, Tho remains were received nj tn
I station by two Masonic lodges. an,
+ then the procession started, and Il wa
nearly n mile long, or looked so, TIL
funeral cortego moved TO the fnrm o
, Judge Nugcnt, about one mile and one
hnlr from the depot,
Arrived Mt the grave Judge Thoma
II. King. lifelong friend OF the dc
ceased, and q Swedenborglan. as wa
the latter, delivered religious address
over the remains. He was followed b
T Colonel q. II. Goodson of Comanch,
I who was 30 much affected that h
: broke down and had to cease his n
r marks. Then l.. q. Russell. master 0
: ceremonies, delivered a feeling address
: after which the MnsOna took charg
and conducted the burial ceremonies
. There were 100 of thoae present Neal
= ly two hours was spent at the grave.
. Al $40 the party returned on III
train md reached Fort Worth thre
hours later.
c Mira. Nugent will continue To max
. her home In Fort Worth for the prel