The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-10
DEATH OF W. N. JACKSON
A MAN UNIVERSALLY LOVED By THE
PEOPLE OF INDIANAPOLIS.
He Left Written Directions About His
FunernI-"Uncle Billy Will he
Mourned by All.

At the residence Of Mr.. c. 3. Huston.
9aS North Illinois street, William N. jack
son died at $50 o'clock yesterday morning,
aged ninety-one years. six months and
three days. The funeral will occur to-day
at 2 p. m. from the Second Presbyterian
Church. The burial will be at Crown Hill
at 8 o'clock.
The following are the written directions
for the burial of Mr.. Jackson, dated July
s. 1897, and repeatedly talked over with
near friends and relatives:
Il wish to be buried the next day after
my d~ecease, but under no circumstances.
except in danger of contagion, to be buried
on the Lords day. l wish my funeral to
be very plain and inexpensive. 1 do not
wish my face exposed to view after my
body is prepared for burial.
'The service should be very short and
without eulogy. The reading of the thir-
ty-fourth Psalm or the twelfth chapter OF
Romans with prayer might be appropriate.
but is not enjoined. No requests for delay
ing the burial are to be needed"
The instructions left in writing by Mr..
Jackson will be followed in every detail
The active pall-bearers will be A. r. Lew
is. night -stationmaster, and William
Roney. representing the Union Station po-
lice service; William Spencer. checkman,
and Edward Taylor, checkman, represent
ing the baggage department.; Frank
Bailey, conductor, and Joseph Steffin. en-
gineer, representing the Belt Railroad
traffic service.
The hearse bearing the body of Mr.. Jack
son will be Immediately followed by John
Allen, colored, who was the porter in Mr..
Jackson's Office and who, after many years
OF service in his employ. was unusually
attentive to his wants in the last days of
his illness.
The funeral will be attended by a large
number of railway men from various parts
of the country, though many who were in
innate friends of Mr.. Jackson and would
be here under ordinary circumstances will
not be able to be present on account OF
his expressed wish to be buried on the
day following his death. All local rail-
way men who can get away will attend
the services.
Messages announcing his death were sent
by Superintendent Zion, of the Union Rail-
way Company, TO James McCrea, president
of the Union Railway Company and first
vice president of the Pennsylvania Com
pany, of P%ittsburg; r.. 3. Turner, general
superintendent of the c., II. & D., at Gin
cinnati; l.. II. Parker. superintendent of
the Monon. at Lafayette; Riley McKeen,
Of Terre Haute, formerly president of the
vandalia; w. p. Ijams, of Terre Haute;
Joseph Ramsey, of st. Louis, general man.
ager of the Wabash SYSTEM; W. II. Nc
Doel, general manager of the Monon; c.
n yUoII1 - fha ~ III e. II PofIuvoN. Y
f. Miller of the Pennsylvania Company,
and others. all of whom were connected d.
rectly or Indirectly with the Union Rail-
way of this city, and intimately associated
with Mr.. Jackson. Messages of sympathy
for the friends and relatives of MIR. Jack
son were received from all of them and
Mr.. McCrea expressed his feeling in the
following message to Mr.. a. A. Zion:
81 have your message telling me OF the
death of Mr.. jackson: feel that l have
you would express to the members of his
family my sincere sympathy in their loss.
Mr.. Jackson was one of the sweetest char
acters i have ever known. The example
set by his life will be helpful 10 more of
his friends than will ever be known"
" the Union Station are pictures of the
men most concerned in the erection of the
building and the establishment of the joint
railway service and the picture of Mr..
jackson Is there. His portrait has been
appropriately draped.
rs - AAAe|A n u w IlO
memory of Mr.. Jackson, the following
notice was issued yesterday from the Office
of the superintendent of the Union Rail-
way:
'To all employees of the Indianapolis
Union Railway and the Belt Railroad:
I'm the death of Secretary w. N. Jackson
a long, useful and devoted life in the
service OF this company has come to a
close. No act of ours can bestow too
great an appreciation of his sweet and
noble character. As a last and fitting
tribute to his memory the management of
this company would suggest that 1T Is its
wish that the employees Of every depart
ment stop work at the time OF his funeral
2 o'clock Monday afternoon, where prac-
ticable, and remain at rest for a period of
ten minutes"
Mr.. jackson had absolutely no fear Of
death and for some time prior to his de-
mise realized there was no prospect of his
recovery. On Wednesday last he was
ninety-one years and six months old and
at that time he expressed TO his nearest
friends and relatives the wish that he
might die before the day ended so as not
begin another half year of life.