The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-02
MEATH BoNavENTURE'S OAKS.
The Bodies of DIR. w. f. Aiken and
Mrs. Aiken Were Laid to Rest.

Mrs. Aiken Were Laid to Rest.
The last sad rites were solemnized yes
terday afternoon over the bodies of DR..
William +. Aiken and Mrs. Anna Potter
Aiken, his wife. A mass OF flowers covers
the single grave in Bonaventure to which
the remains were committed.
During the early morning. hours Mrs.
Aiken. DR.. Aiken's mother. Mr.. Alfred c.
Potter. OF Cambridge. Mrs. W. t. Aiken 5
brother, and Mr.. William Tillinghast, of
Cambridge, her cousin. reached the city,
and Mir. Potter took charge of the ar
engagements for the funeral.
The bodies of DR.. and Mrs. Aiken rest
ed still in the parlors Of their late resi-
dence on Ogle thorpe averIe and there Dr.
Aiken's mother went at once, accomPaui-
ed by Mr.. Tiuinghast. Mrs. Aiken 5
mOtherly anguish as she kept this last
sad watch by the bodies of the Inflated
son and his wife none but a mothers
heart can even begin 10 conceive.
The funeral services at the residence
were in private only those who had been
chosen to act as pallbearers and some
other few, close friends of the family, and
the members of the family themselves.
being present Rev RObb White con-
Quoted the funeral service of the Episco-
pal Church and a trio from Christ
Church choir sang, THY VIII Be Done. ="
During the service the two caskets,
Identical in construction ana appearance,
rested side by side in the parlors. One of
them bore the word Father" the other
Mother" There was no other inscrip-
tion on either.
1t was a sad sight when the caskets
were borne from the house and placed in
the two hearses that stood before the
door. \ crowd of several hundred per-
sons, which it required the efforts of two
policemen to keep within bounds throng
ed the street and overfiowed into Colo
NAL Park, just across the wey.
The interment was in Bonaventure,
where a lot. near that of the Lawton
family, in the extreme eastern part OF
the cemetery. had been purchased dur
ing the morning. There a single, large
grave had been prepared and the two
baskets were lowered into this and rest
there side by side. At the grave Rev.
Robb. White concluded the Episcopal ser
vice for the death.
Great masses of flowers and great
numbers of floral designs had been sent
by friends and from the local societies
and clubs TO which DR.. Aiken belonged
These concealed the ugly out
lines of the two mounds that were rails
ed above the grave. TRANSPORTING the
mounds with their white beauty, their
grace and fragrance seeming for the mo-
ment to Danish the grim specter of tragic
remembrance.
The pallbearers who lowered DR.. Aiken's
body into the grave were from the Geor-
gia Medical Society. They were DIR. T.
p. Waring. DIR. Jacob Weichsebaum, DR..
J. G. FARRELL. DR.. John S. Howkins, Dr.
John A. CrOwther and DIR. S. Latimer
Phillips. Those who bore the casket
that held the body of Mrs. Aiken were
Mr.. w. r. Leaken, Mr.. w. r. Knight,
Mr.. c. Easton Youge, Mr.. Robert Billing
ton, MIR. Benjamin T. F'inney and Maj.
Edward Karow.
When Mrs Aiken and 9Iessrs. Potter
and Tillinghast return North they will
carry-with them the four children, Con-
rad, Elizabeth, Kempton and Robert, who
in the future will make their home with
some of their relatives. in Massac husetts.
Arrangements for the return have not
yet been made. as there are many things
which must be looked after here.