The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-13
The Town w as
Present
!. AT HEROES FUNE RAJ
Walker Gains One Vote
on Recount.

Leicester, Nov. 1.-THE second funer-
a. of a soldier from Leicester, who had
e1sqccumbed to the hardships of camp
- life in Cuba, took place in the Green
g willie Baptist church at 2.3u O'Clock this
afternoon. The first funeral was that
of Private w. D. Roberts, which took
4 PLACE on September 5, but unlike Joseph
G. King, whose body was buried in the
family lot this afternoon, he lived to
arrive at Worcester, and died at the
hospital there. Private King died at
Santiago. de Cuba, and his relatives had
not seen him since the regiment left for
birmingham
The procession started at the home
of the soldiers grandfather, Franklin
B. King, and, assisted by the veterans
of George H. Thomas Post, 1S1, G. A.
r., then the Spencer Brass Band, the
hearse.s escorted by a detachment of
comrades from Company c. Second
regiment and the carriages containing
the mourners.
The soldiers and the band were given.
places of honor at the church. The
coffin was placed in front of the pulpit,
with q member of c Company stationed
at either end.
A large flag was draped over the pull
pit, and two large pots of white chrys-
anthemums, with two large
palms We're arranged on eth
er side. The flowers arranged
about the coffin included large mound
marked &c Co.. Second Mass, from his
comrades; a bouquet of % pinks from
W.eR. c., 152; mound of chrysanthe-
NUNS and ferns from Mrs. George Ev
erett Adams, Mrs. Nathan e. Craig and
Mrs E. M. Croser: % white chrysanthe-
NUNS from his half brother TEDDY"
and half sisters, Doris and Margler-
ite,'' Of Dayton, Ohio; two bouquets of
chry santhemunss and asters from c. r..
Gould and wife, j. H. Knight and wife,
A. A. Boomhover and wife, and ]. e.
Offner and wife; cross and crown,
marked joe from his fiancee.
The services opened with a. selection
Some Day Wen Understand" by a
quartet, consisting of Mrs Lizzie Smith,
Miss Susan r. Knight, Arnold Cooper,
and Herbert Midgley, the leader Rev
f, E. Heath of the First Baptist church
of Spencer read from the Scriptures and
gave an address setting forth the hero
ism Of the soldiers and the sacrifice
they made for the sake of a suffering
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