The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-17
Funeral Services over Remains
of Late Col. Tomlinson.
Rev. Abram Wyman, of Unity
Church, in Charge.
OLD FRIENDS THERE.
Kansas Pioneers Gather For
Last Look at Old Associate.
Funeral of Mrs. NJ. I. Lee on
Sunday.

The funeral services over the remains
of the late Colonel William P. Tomlinson,
who died Thursday night, were conducted
by the Rev. Abram Wyman, pastor of
Unity church, Sunday at o'clock at the
residence, at No. 200 WoodIawn avenue, in
Potwin
The casket rested upon two pedestaIs
covered with black broadcloth nearly in
the center of the front parlor. 1t was
nearly buried beneath a load of pink
roses and pink and white carnations. The
beautiful redwood mantel opposite the
caslzet on the east side of the room was
partly hidden by magnificent bouquet of
Virginia. creepers. In the south end Of
Jean ParlShurst played for the vocal solo,
Tennyson's Crossing the Bar by Miss
Grace Akin.
The front parlor was used exclusively
Tor the caSket, the pallbearerS, and MRS
FRANK roster and Miss Grace AKIN, VINO
sang. The rear parlors were filled with
the friends of the late Mr.. Tomiinson.
while immediate members of the family
remained above stairs.
Rev. Mr.. Wyman took a position in the
d o4g q the Ir4nt Rarl1 dr.; rooklng
through the folding doors of the front
parlor into the rear parlor. The service
which he read was short and simple but
the more beautiful in its simplicity. 1t
was followed by the reading of several
few days and full of trouble. He cometh
feeth as a shadow and continueth not
Behold thou hast made my days as a.
hand-breadth, and my age is as nothing
MY days are swifter than weaver's
shuttle. They are passed away as the
swift ships. There is but a. step between
me and death. All flesh is as grass. and
all the glory OF man as the hover or
grass The grass withereth and the flower
thereof falleth away.
Men dwell in houses of clay, whose
foundation is in the dust We are
strangers before thee, and sojourners, as
shadow there
Eye know not what shall be on the NOR
row. Tor what is your life2 1t is even
a vapor that appeareth for a little time,
and then vaniSheS away.
There is nothing that nature has made
necessary which is more easy than death.
What a shame it is, then, to stand in fear
It is not death itself that is dreadful, but
the .e1, fear Of it that goes before it.
is to be measured by action. not by time.
A man may die old at thirty, and young
at four-score. Nay, the one lives after
death; and the other persisted before he
died. The fear of death is a continual
slavery, as the contempt of it is certain
liberty"
g IT'S hard to take the burden up,
When these have laid it down.
They frightened all the joy of life,
They SOftened every frOWn.
But. oh, it's good to think of them,
When we are troubled sorei
Thanks be to God that such have been
Although they are no more
Following the close of the service Mrs.
Frank Foster sang a solo,, Face to
Face" The delegation of the United
Woodmen. of which lodge Mr.. Tomlinson
was a member. which had waited out
side the house, were then given an OPP
door and aroilnd through fhe. rooms to
view the remains for the last time Fol-
lowing the lodge members, those who
were in the rear rooms passed out the
house The members OF the delegation or
the A. O. u W. formed in a. double line,
with barred heads, from the door of the
house to the heaTSe, While the caSlxet was
borne out by Mr.. Arthur Capper, Mr.. c.
Mr.. Eugene Hagan.
The funeral procession wendell its way
to the Topeka cemetery, where the inter-
ment was made
The immediate members of the family
of the late Mr.. Tomlinson We're at the fu-
neral. They were Mrs. W. +. Iom1nSon
and their only daughter, Miss villa Tom
linson, and a sister of Mrs. TomlinSOn, a
Mrs. Pateman.
Mr. TomlinSon was a Kansas pioneer.
He was born in lower Wakefield. Bucks
county, Pa, November Is. 1896 He was
was married at Camden, Morris county,
Kan, in December, 1872, to Miss Nellie ~.
Raceco, who was a native of New York
state, and who still survives him.
Mr.. TomlinSon came to Kansas in 1856
as a correspondent for an eastern paper.
He was responsible for the many glowing
accounts of Kansas and of the border
troubles, which appeared in the eastern
paper he represented.
In the passing Of Col. Tomlinson. Kan
sas loses another of the pioneers. who
were on the scene of action during the
early and interesting history of the state
of Kansas. The old timers are now few
pioneers who are now living in this vicin-
ity were at the funeral yesterday.
It is q. fact that only a few of the brave
men who were actively interested in the
events which have proven to have such
far reaching effect upon the destiny of
this country, remain Col. Tomlinson was