The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-29
SAID FAREWELL.
Funeral of Mrs. Sells Was
Largely Attended.
Quincy Street Packed with We
hicles and People.
COUNTERMINE'S TALK
Refers to the Generous Deeds O
Mrs. Sells.
Floral EmbIems We're Numer-
GUS and Beautiful.

The funeral services over the remains
of the late Mrs. Sarah Anna Sells We're
conducted by Rev. j. D. Countermine.
pastor of the First Presbyterian church.
at the family residesnce on Quincy
street, Sunday afternoon at 2:S0 O'Clock
There was a large attendance. The
block was crowded with vehicles of
every description and the walks and
grounds leading to and around the
house were filled by people. The house
was not large enough to accommodate
those who We're present
The broad front doors opening out
upon the veranda and facing east We're
thrown open The casket was placed
on the north side of the south parlor
underneath the portraits of both Mr..
and Mrs. Sells. All the doors leading
from the south parlor to the sitting
room on the west, the front hall and
the reception parlor in the north por-
ton of the house and to the dining
room We're thrown open and folding
chairs put in the rooms.
Festoons of some clinging vines were
draped over and about the portraits of
Mr.. and Mrs. Sells and over the n antel.
The fireplace in the south wall of the
room just opposite to where the casket
stood was loaded with flowers, roses
and carnations. A great many pieces
about the room. A large cross of roses
stood on a small table at the head of
the easket. A bunch of Gala lilies lay
over the edge of the foot of the casket.
The casket was beautiful. 1t was
large and finished in black brOadclOth.
and lined with white tufted satin. 1t
was made with two compartments, the
inner one being Theoretically sealed
with a glass cover showing all of the
interior of the casIet. The handles and
trimmings We're of gold and silver and
the caslxet cost $3.50.
Miss Lima Wyatt sang ''The Holy
City assisted by Miss Clara Anna
Bundy on the piano. Prayer was offered
by Rev. Countermine, after which the
quartette composed of the Misses Wy
att, Mr.. H. L. Shirer and Mr.. NJ. d. Hen
dersOn, sang Nearer My God to Thee"
Following the singing, Rev. DR.. Coun-
termine made a brief address. He
spoke of the kind disposition of Mrs.
Sells, her generous acts and happiness
brought about through them while she
was alive; of the joys of eternal life
after a life of misery and sorrow on
earth and of the certainty that the an
gel Of death would visit each one soon
er or later as it had the loving mother
who had just passed away, and adjured
each one to prepare to meet him.
The quartette sang another number
while those who desired passed through
the house to view the body for the last
time. When the house was emptied the
curtains to the room in which the cask-
ct lay We're drawn and the room was
given over to the members of the fam
lily for few moments.
The pallbearers We're: P. I. Bone
brake, Judge A. Bergan, Charles HoIli-
day Warren M.CrOsby. William Davis.
Colonel John Carter, John Downs and
Eugene Hagan-
Those who attended the funeral from
out of town were Mr.. and Mrs. Willie
Sells and little son Allan Sells. and Mrs.
Willis Cobb of. Cleveland. Ohio, a sis
ter of the deceased Mrs. Cobb will re-
turn Tuesday.