El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-04
FUNERAL OF COLONEL SHELBY.
1t is Conducted Under the Auspices of
the Odd Fellows


7 a notice Of whose death and a sketch o
whose life appeared in yesterday
HERALD took place this morning
The Odd Fellows of the Ei PasO loca
lodges and number Of visiting broth
ers at $3.50 o'clock marched from the
lodge room to the Caldwell undertaken @
parlors. where the first part of the
beautiful funeral ceremony of that
order was performed. The body was
then borne by them to St. Clements
Episcopal church, where the rector,
NJ. Cabell Martin, conducted the Epis-
copal service for the dead, after which
the Odd Fellows again took the body
in charge and conducted it to the Odd
| Fellows cemetery at COncordla, where
the concluding ceremonies took place
over the grave Quite a cODcOurse of
citizens in carriages accom- panied the
remains to the grave, in addition to the
mem bers of the order of Odd Fellows:
and the beautiful final services at tn at
place were deeply affecting. AT the
conclusion of the preliminary service
at the undertaking parlors, 5. II.
Newman, member OF Ell Paso Lodge
| No. 2S4, and an old-time friend of the
deceased, at the request of the lodge,
gave a short sketch of the life of the
deceased and pronounced an eulogy
upon him. Mr.. Newman said:
Dear Friends and Brothers: a S
! Odd-FellOwS We are met this bright
sunny morning to assist in the last sad
rites over the body OF Brother whose
soul has now passed across the Great
Divide We, who knew him, loved
him. Those loved him most who knew
him best. Throughout the allotted
three score years an ten which
marked the span of his life, he exem-
pltied the beauties of the principles
which as Odd-t'ellows we profess: and
while the fearful malady which has
laid him low was for years wasting his
strength and sinking its poisoned fangs
deep into his vitals, he bore his suffer
iugs with fortitude and met with cheer
full smiles and kindly words all with
whom he was brought in contact.
His hand was ever cheerfully extended
to Brother in distress: and to him, as
to every good Odd-Fellow,
all mankind were Brothers.
he made no account of the good he did,
but, quietly and with equanimity,
pursued his modest caree.' of usefulness
and good will towards his fellow man.
His life affords a lesson by which we
all may profit. namely, that cheerful
disposition is of more value than gold
and an honest heart the most priceless |
jewel. His peaceful death-these |
mourning friends around his coffin
the blessings that from thousands OF !
lips will be sweetly, gently showered |
upon his memory throughout this |
land, all speak another |
lesson of equal import, and that is. that |
sit is not all of life to live. nor all OF |
death to die" To such men as this, |
our Brother, was, life presented work |
to do and he did it we'll; it showed him |
duties 20 perform. and he performed |
them cheerfully. The success OF such |
a life is not measured by the amount of !
gold piled up, nor by the splendor OF |
the monume ment placed over the grave:
but by the good it has done, the distress
it has relieved, the sunshine it
the courage it has inspired
in those who else had succumbed to
life's trials, the example OF cheerful
aud perseverance under diff
culties which it leaves behind. May
we all take these lessons to heart and
thus be ready, as be was ready, when
our lamp of life shall be exiting nguished:
and may we be able then to say, as he
could say, Il have fought good fight.
have finished my course, have kept
the faith
Brother V. S. Shelby was born in
county, Tennessee, Feb
ruary >, 1927, and before he had
reached his majority joined General
Taylor's army at the mouth OF the Rio
Irande. in Mexico. Ill health drove
him back TO his native state after six
months of service: but in 1852 he Joined
,he multitudes who were then focking
% California, and remained in the
after state until 1856, when he came to
New Mexico. where he has resided
almost continuously since. He was ;
known throughout that Territory and
he southwest, and was universally ]
'espected by those who knew him and :
learly beloved by those who were his
ntimates. He was attacked some years ]
lgo by cancer on the face: and the last
,wo- years OF his life have been passed I
q Intellectual attempts at cure. he
spent the past two winters in Ell Paso,
Inder treatment, and was so pleased
With our city and climate aud people
hat he returned this winter for further
treatment. He realized, however, that
lis tenure of life was most uncertain
Ind wisely provided for the details that
le desired to have attended to when
he approaching catastrophe should
,vertake him. Two years ago
ne instructed that his body should be
buried by the Odd Fellows in their
cemetery at COucOrdia, below this city,
and at subsequent intervals repeated
5he instructions. We are here today
20 carry out his last wishes, as, some
lay, those who remain behind will do
Tor each one of us. One of the duties
which Odd Fellowship enjoins is to
bury the dead: and every Ode Fellow
knows that his own grave will be gen
tly fashioned to receive him and that
his body will be lowered into its
last resting place by loving hands
Brother Shelby was member OF
Paradise Lodge No. ,, of Santa Fe,
New Mexico, the oldest organization
of Odd Fellows in that broad eXpanse
of territory reaching from the Missou-
ri River to the Pacific Ocean His
brothers (aud ours of Paradise ,odge
have wired to have his body taken to
Santa E'e for interment: but his own
expressed wish to be buried at FL Paso,
where he met so many and such kind
friends when he tiIst came here a
stranger, has fixed his grave at Con-
cordia, our own silent city of
the dead
Cornelius Vanderbilt is trying to