The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-09-30
IMPRESSIVE SERVICES OVER RE-
MAINS or MISS DAVIS.
PEOPLE PAY LOVING TRIBUTE.
CorieEo One az the Longust and Moss Hn.
pressive Ever Seen In the
City 81 Bichmond.


cemetery at Richmond. The funeral
was conducted in the historic St.
Paul's church which was crowded to
the limit with prominent people from
oil over the south.
When the remains, with the family
and intimate friends, reached Rich
mond at $40 o'clock Friday morning,
II was sombre, gray day and the
skies were filed with mist as il in sym
pathy for the city in It's grief. A
great crowd met the train at the union
station and deepest respect for the pres
ence Of the dead was shown. The re-
mains arrived in n combination Pull
man parlor and baggage car. The en-
tire half Of the car in which the oasket
lay was filed with boxes and packages
OF floral tributes. These came from
Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Washington, Baltimore and many
other cities.
There was evidence Of grief every
where. Flags all over the city were
ct half mast. Veterans wearing crepe
around their big soft hats, moved
from place TO place with sorrowful
faces, while the white house of the
Confederacy was draped in mourning.
Many hurrying back and forth by
st. Paul's, which opens on two
thOroughfares, voluntarily lifted their
hats in honor of the daughter of the
Confederacy, then passed quietly on.
Accompanying Mrs Davis were Mrs.
J. Addison Hayes, of Colorado, Mrs.
Davis daughter; Mrs. Joseph Pulit-
zer and son, of New York; Mrs. Sam
uel Fate, of Memphis; A. A. McGuin-
mis-, of New Orleans; Burton Harrison,
who was President Davis private sec
rotary; Clarence Carey, Clifford Part
ridge and Mrs. Lila Faunce.
The guard of honor accompanying
the personal friends of Miss Davis
were a committee of the Confederate
Veterans camp of New York. At
Washington the funeral party was
joined by a guard of honor from that
city. Delegations from Baltimore and
other cities were on the same train.
When the train reached Alexandria a
large delegation of veterans from that
city got aboard, having with them the
Confederate battle flag floral tribute
which marked the head of the casket.
Another delegation of veterans
Joined the funeral party at Fredericks-
burg.
Arriving at Richmond, the Davis
party was met by Hon. J. Taylor Ely
son, president of the Jefferson Davis
: Monument Association; Colonel Ar.
! cher Anderson, Colonel e. L. Hobson
and their wives, with the guard OF
honor consisting of veterans from Lee
camp, Confederate veterans, who ao-
a companied the remains to st. Paul's
church, where the casket was placed
\ in the basement until $3.50 o'clock,
!. when the funeral services were con.
Quoted.
The funeral, which commenced al
$3.50 o'clock, was one of the most re-
markable ceremonies of the kind ever
d seen in the south. No woman from
Mason and Dixon's line to the Lone
, Star state was ever more beloved thar
t Miss Davis.
, The floral tributes were the hand
s soonest ever seen in Richmond. Thev
d came from every state in the south
t many in the north and west.
Charleston, s. c., the scene of the
! first battle of the war, sent a whole
: palmetto with an earnest request tina
Q it be planted at the head Of the Davis
section in Hollywood to shade the
graves of ex-President Davis and hi,
family. This will be done.
Mrs. Davis and Mrs. HAYES occu
0 pied the same pew in ST. Paul's church
on which President Davis sat on tha
= memorable Sunday morning when h,
= was advised by special messenger o
! General Lees surrender at Appomat
. tox. The pew is marked with larg,
. letters and star. It is across tn,
;. aisle from the pew occupied by Gen
. eral Lee and his family during his stay
IN Richmond. Rev. DIR. Hartley Car
michael, rector Of st. Paul's conducted
the services and was assisted by th,
! venerable and eloquent Moses d
Hoge, d. d. Another prominen
minister who took part in the servic,
= was Rev. James P. Smith, D. D., wht
h was chaplain to General Stonewal
= Jackson's corps.
4 The services we're simple and i'm
!. pressive. There was no sermon or en-
= logy Thousands lined the streets il
i forming the procession, which wa
several miles long. Bells tolled Al
l. over the city and the last sorrowfu
> journey to Hollywood through th
IS principal streets of the capitol of tn