El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-05-22
JUDGE DAVIS FUNERAL.
One of the Largest Funerals Ever Held in
This City-General Turn Out.


ing in large mum bers in attendance O
the funeral of Judge B. Fl Davis who's
familiar and friendly figure will n
longer be seen in our midst. Th
obsequies were held in the First Ba
tist church where all classes of peopl
attended in honor of the memory @
the deceased.
The fire bell called the members @
the fire department together at 4:3
and with full ranks they marched t.
the late residence on Magoffin avenue
where the members of the bar wer
assembled, and led by Two's hose drum
corps, the department., bar and othe
friends escorted the remains to th'
church. The pail bearers were:
Judge F; B. Sexton, Judge Altar
Blacker, John Julian, w. ]. Fewel
Judge P. F. Edwards, Judge G. n
Buckler, Capt. T. J. Beall, G. r. More
head, Judge Wyndham and DR.. A. L
Justice.
The John G.. Brown camp of confed
crate veterans iQined the escort at the
church where the elegant casket was
placed before the pulpit and covered
with many fine floral offerings. Mis-;
Kate Moore presided at the organ, and
the service opened with the hymn, the
first stanza of which reads:
'Abide with me. Fast falls the
| eventide.
| The darkness deepens-LOrd with me
| abide,
When other helpers fail and COM
| forts flee;
Help of the helpless, O abide with
| me:'
The singing was by a quartet COM
posed of Misses Marie Shelton, Mamie
Beall, Stella Jones and Emma Ullman.
After the reading of the scripture les
son and the prayer, duo, Rise me
Jesus was sung by Misses Shelton and
Ullman with much effect.
The pastor, Rev. Mr.. Mllcan. spoke
from the text, ''If ye loved me, We
would rejoice, because l said, go un-
to the father, for my father is greater
than t. John NIV:28. The discourse
was full OF sympathy and comfort to
the family and relatives.
Mr.. Millican spoke in poetic vein,
and greatly interested his hearers as
he dwelt upon the strong ties of life
upon human kind, made stronger by
the ties of love and affection. From
human standpoint, death is a myster-
ious, saddening thing, snatching loved
ones from the home, the fire side, our
hearts. Is there no light in the dark
ness? No panacea for this i'll? The
text leads us to believe there is light
ahead. Earth has no sorrows that
heaven can not heal, and even in grief
and sorrow, we can rejoice. Love is
SO strong that when human limitations
are torn away love will rejoice in any
change of environment that greatly
benefits it's object. 1t were infinitely
better for Christ to die than that he
should live human existence. Christ
was but the first born of many sons:
and if heaven rejoic ID in his re option.
so will heaven rejoice in the rec sption
of every child of the king. The apos-
tie said, to die is gain. and every one
who loves the father, brother and
friend whose mortal remains lie be-
fore us, may rejoice in his death be-
cause he goes to the father. His life
speaks for itself, so [ can say but little
more than that he was noble, true,
tender and pathetic as husband,
father and friend. He was honorable
as a citizen, eminent as a juriSt, and
valiant as patriot, devout-
ly piOus as a Christian. His cbarac-
ter stands as a monument infinitely
more lasting than any granite, bronze
or costly stone. His life is reminder
to coming generations that we may
make our lives sublime, and departing
leave behind us footprints on the sands
OF time. | call upon you to emulate
his life and example. Some day, some
time, we will clasp his hand just over
in the morning land.
AT the close of the sermon, the
Ladies' Quartette sang Nearer my
God to Thee" and the casket was
borne to the hear>e and escorted thence
to the Concordia cemetery. There
were between thirty ard forty car
riages behind the hearse, and people
on foot were strung out for two blocks.
The services at the grave were i'm
pressive, and the interment was in the
family plot.
AT the preliminary meeting of the
Bar association yesterday, Judge Sex
ton moved that the members attend
the funeral in a body and wear on their
left arm Il badge OF mourning as 8
mark of we'll merited esteem. In sec
onding the motion, Judge Crosby said,
L second the motion of Judge Sex
ton and | think it would be exceeding
ly appropriate for the members of the
bar of Ell Paso to demonstrate to the
outside world as well as to those who
knew the deceased well, our high ap-
knew him the higher the appreciation
we had of his pure, his noble, his un-
eXcelled character, and it is well that
we should pay that tribute TO the re-
maios of him who was not only the |
nestor of this bar, but who 10 his
private life and in his philosophy. |
which he had called to his age under |
had a professional pride which |
he exhibited on all occasions and |
high professional character which he |
ever demonstrated. | think it is but |
right and proper that every demons |
traton that the bar of Ell Paso and the |
people of Ell Paso can make in testi- |
mOny of their high appreciation of this |
noble deceased should be done. We |
should give every testimony to his eX-
example to the young men |
whom | see around us here, both as a |
man and a professional lawyer.
''ln my intercourse with the bar of |
this and other states it is seldom that |
it has ever been my fortune to come |
in contact, under any, every and all |
with one whose char |
acter stood out in such Il manner that |
when the electric light or the sun
light shone upon it in is purity, that it
became more pure as the light became |
brighter.
Let US do honor to that noble mn
upon whom the dust will be cast this |
evening and let Us testify to our