The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-03-21
FUNERAL OF S.P. EVANS
Love and Confidence Of His Constituents
Testified.
FRIENDS FROM ALL PARTS OF STATE
Paid Their Respects to the Dead.
Odd Fellows Lodges of the coun-
~ Conducted the Services.

Van Alstyne, Texas, March 20.--All that
was mortal of Hon. s. p. Evans was laid
to rest in the beautiful cemetery this al
ternoon. There never was a larger funeral
procession in the history of the city aud
the tribute paid to the dead citizen and
legislator testified the love and confidence
Of his host Of friends not only In Grayson
county, but throughout Texas.
The special sleeper bearing the guard of
honor-uf the Texas legislature and the
Texas Press association arrived this morn
Ing from Austin via Dallas. The legisla
tive party was composed OF Senators Ter
rell and Johnson, Representatives Shell
burne, Conoly. Staples, Crawford, Smith
and Wells of Grayson. Chief Clerk Lee G.
Rountree of the house, Officers 7. II.
Napier and j. W. Dale OF the senate. Mrs.
:. NJ. Franklin, postmistress OF the house,
ard Mrs. Harris Of Dallas accompanied
Mrs. Evans from Austin.
Colonel Jot Gunter of Sherman, life
time friend OF tho dead representative,
came with the funeral patty and they were
Joined at Hillshoro by Hon. j. W. Bailey.
who was en- his way to Austin to see his
friend when no received a telegram that
he was too late.
The !. o. o. #. lodges Of Van Alstyne.
Sherman. Mckinney, Weston, Howe and
olutI pldtEs lDIHleu IN lire anu III SUM
column marched TO the grave. Rev. J. b.
McComb conducted impressive and touch
ing religious services and Congressman
Bailey paid high tribute to MIR. Evans
as a man. friend and a citizen
The I. O. o. F. lodge. OF which he was
a beloved member, conducted it's solemn
service at the grave There had been
were flowers and tears when he lay dead.
Messrs. Napier, Dale and Rorntree,
acting for the Texas Press association, OF
which he was an honored member, placed
an appropriate floral wreath upon the
casket. There is genuine sorrow at his
going everywhere expressed by his home
people and throughout the State.
Dallas, Texas, March 2o.-The funeral
car bearing the body of Representative
s. p. Evans, who died yesterday at Aus
| tin, reached Dallas this forenoon and was
transferred from the Missouri, Kansas q
| Texas TO the Houston & Texas Central road
and then proceeded northward to Van
Alstyne Grayson county, where the funer-
| al took place this afternoon in the family
| burying ground.
number of prominent Dallas democrats
/ Joined the party here.
Hon. Jink Evans of Corsicana. a member
OF the State democratic executive com
mttee and brother OF the deceased said:
'If ever man loved another. my brother
loved Joe Bailey. His admiration for
Bailey amounted to devotion. The only
| difference Of any kind we ever had was
! once when l wouldn't shout for Bailey as
loud as he. And Bailey loved him. There
was nothing either could do for the other
that would not be done. They were as
Arm and faithful in their friendship for
each other as humans ever were. No
man ever had truer friend than either
! The last words my brother uttered in the
house OF representatives were on the res
olution endorsing Bailey's course in con-
gress. Among his last requests was one
asking that Bailey be informed of his
| condition"