The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-02-21
GENERAL TOON'S
UNERAL TO-DAY
At the Tabernacle Baptist
Church at 3 O'clock.
iNTERMENT AT 0hK.N0G0
lNTERMENT AT OAKNOGD
Military and Masonic Honors to Dead
Soldier and Brother.
DELEGATION FROM ROBSON COUNTY
Addresses viii Be Made by Dr. Eugene
Daniel, Rev. G. 7. Adams, Rev.
Livingstone Johnson and Rev.
w. D. Hubbard.

W. W bbuupotOs
All ARRANGEMENTS have been completed
for the funeral today of General Thomas
r. .Toon. State Superintendent of Public
instruction. The services will be held in
the Tabernacle Baptist church of this
city. and will begin at three o'clock. Tie
interment will be in lakewood cemetery
lust outside Of the Confederate Square,
near the Pettigrew monument, on the
right hand side as one enters.
Both military and Masonic honors will
be paid to the memory of the deceased.
The two companies of State Guard in
Raleigh and the l. O'B. Branch Confed
crate Veterans, win escort the remains
from the house to the church, and from
the church to the cemetery.
As was mentioned this morning, ii was
the wish of the State officers that the
body lie in state in the rotunda of the
Capitol until the funeral, but Mrs. Toon
considered IL best, as General Toons
sons could not reach here until yesterday
that this ceremony be dispensed with
and 1t was in accordance with this de-
sire of Mrs. Toons that the body did not
lie in state yesterday.
All of the members of the family have
arrived. The daughters, Mrs. Mamie
Fuller and Miss Robbe Toon, of Lumber
ton, and Mrs. Oliver Rowland, OF War
rem county, came on the late trains We'd
nesday night, and yesterday morning the
brothers of the deceased reached here,
Messrs. Archibald and Abner Toon OF
Whitevllle. Mr.. Archibald Toon was ac-
companied by his wife. Later in the day
came Mr.. Thomas f. Toon, Jr., OF At
lanta. with his wife and daughter, and
General Toon's other son, Mr. Fl. B.
Toon, of Lynehburg, s. G.
The family acquiesced in the wishes OF
the State officials that the interment be
in Raleigh.
The services at the Tabernacle Baptist
church. of which General Toon had only
recently been elected a deacon, will be
conducted by Rev. w. D. Hubbard. the
. pastor Of the church Mr.. Hubbard
however, considering that the life of
General Toon belonged to the State has
invited several other ministers TO take
part in the service.
Or. Eugene Daniel, of the First Pres
byteri2n church, will speak of General
Toons Official Career
Rev. G. r. Adams, of the Central
Methodist church. viii speak of his
LARGER as 2 Soldier"
Rev. Livingstone Johnson, who was
formerly General Toon's pastor, will
speak or his Home Life
Rev. W. D. Hubbards address will be
OF General Toon as "A Christian
yesterday morning a delegation of rep
resentative citizens of Robson county
where General Toon lived so long. ar
rived to attend the funeral They were.
Messrs, p. X. Proctor, Jr., Frank Cough.
q. b. Mcleod and ". A. Mclean OF IMnl-
oerton. and Representative G. b. Patter-
son, OF Maxton. Last night. Rev. j. C. H
durham, pastor OF the Baptist church at
Lumberton, arrived to be present at The
last rites paid to his old friend
Senator G, L. Morton, of Wilmington
IS also here, and will remain to attend
the funeral
Inc family yesterday were in receipt
OF kilograms constantly from persons ia
ali parts OF the State who had known the
Generai either personally or Officially.
conveying deepest sympathy in the sud
den affliction.
AS beautiful and touching mark Of tho
respect ana esteem in which the deceased
was hela az his home town, all the stores
II LaMpefton are closed today, as we'll
- noDesoh institute, where General
room taught for four years.
The carriages for the palI-bearers and
the honorary pail bearers will be al the
'front.' entrance OF the Capitol Square at
Two O'Clock. From there they will 90 n
the residence and ACCOMPANY he "a
mains to the church.
The order OF the funeral nroaoseio,,
will be as follows:
Military escort, consisting OF tho pal
eigh Light Infantry and the oak CIV
Guards.
The cadets Of the North Carolina Col
lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Ats
The Confederate veterans.
Tho Masonic fraternity
The hearse bearing the remains
The pail bearers.
The honorary pall-bearers.
The Governor ana the State officials.
The Johnston Pettgrew Chapter
Daughters OF the Confederacy.
The Ladies' Memorial Association.
The pall-hearers are Messrs. n. B.
Broughton, a. B. Forest, j. S. Allen, 4.
IL Mooneyham, John Z. Ray r. H. Bat
tie, J. g. Brown, S. w Whiting
The Masonic pall-bearers are: Messrs.
r. H. Bradley. j. c. Birdsong, T. II.
Cooper, and r. ~ Simms.
The honorary pail bearers will be: Or.
r. ?. Yenable, President University OF
North Carolina; Dr.. c. d. McIver, Presi-
dent State Normal College; Hon. Walter
Clark, Associate Justice Supreme Court !
Col. J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State
Hon. s. l.. Patterson. Commissioner of
Agriculture: Or. George r. Winston
President 4. ana NJ College; Prof. j. b.
Carlyle, Wake Forest College; Prof E. +
+. Moses. Superintendent OF Raleigh
Graded Schools; Hon. G.. r. Patterson, |
Msxton, member House of Representa-
Ives; Mr.. Frank Cough OF Lumberton;
A. NJ. Powell, Mayor OF Raleigh: Mr.. VIM.
Russ. Clerk superior Court Wake coun-
~; Thomas J. Jarvis. Ex-Governor of /,
North Carolina.
VETERANS TO MEET.
The l. o'B. Branch Camp Of Confeder-