The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-28
FUNERAL or MRS. PITTS
Great Crowd of People Present and
 Wealth of Flowers.

A great crowd of people attended the
 funeral Of the late Mrs. Pitts. wife of pr.
 Robert N. Pitts. at Ssoclock yesterday ar
 ternoon. Religious services were held iii
 St John's Episcopal Church and the
 beautiful edificc was crowded as # was
 probably never crowded before. There
 was not a vacant seat in tho church and
 many persons stood. Such an eutpourmg
 of the people of Montgomery to attend
 funeral has not been witnessed before
 in q great many years.
 The funeral cortege moved from the
 residence of Mir. and Mrs. W, w. Screws.
 parents of Mrs. Pitts. few minutes be-
 fore . o'clock. The heavy casket. liter
 ally covered with great punches of beau-
 tiful flowers. was tenderiy borne from
 the home. which Mrs. Pitts had adorned,
 by the hands of young men who had felt
 her gentle, wonanly influence in the ear
 Her days of their life and had watched
 her grow into rnaturer womanhood with
 fondest admiration. They were McDuff
 Cain. Hardwick Ruth. Samuel Hoffman
 Temple Seibels. C. A. Lanier. Jr., Phares
 Coleman. Dr. Sam Billing and Dr. Robert
 Goldthwaite
 When the funeral party reached st.
 Johns Episcopal Church the sacred edi-
 flee was filled to it's capacity and many
 persons stood upon the sidewalk unable
 to gain an entrance to the building. Seats
 were reserved near the chancei rail for
 the members of the Montgomery County
 Medical and Surgical Society of which Dr.
 Pitts is member. and they attended in
 a body. At the main entrance to the church, the rector. Rev Edwrad E. Cobbs, met the funeral party and preceded the casket to the altar where the beautiful service of the Episcopal Church for the dead was said. Mrs. Pitts had been a consistent communicant of this church a majority
 of the years of her life and although Mir
 cobbs has a fine, full and sympathetic voice 1t fa1tered at times as he proceeded with the service. SO full was his heart | with sympathy for the grief-stricken fam i fly.
 The splendid choir of the church sang softly Lead, Kindly Light" Rock of Ages" and There is Blessed Home There were many wet eyes in the church when benediction was said and
 the funeral party left the building and | proceeded to oakwood Cemetery. Mont gomery's beautiful city of he dead. The body of Mrs. Pitts was inferred not a great distance from me main entrance l to the cemetery and hundreds of friends and relatives gathered around the open grave which was about to receive the l mortal remains of this young woman who was universally loved in this city of her I nativity. Rev. Mir Cobbs said the simple but beautiful service of the church and l the grave was covered while men wept and women sobbcd.
 Young men and young women who had been the devoted friends or Mrs. Pitts through all of her years l then went forward and placed wealth Of flowers upon the marble slab which marked tho of hoy h,,,- ;oI I4 L. doubtful if so many beautiful flowers | have ever been seen before at newly made. grave in Montgomery. The season is suspicious and flowers were sent from hundreds of Montgomery households. There were vari-colored sweet peas, stately roses, snowy jessamines. brilliant ! carnations and other rare buds from
 Montgomery gardens. They filled the atmosphere with odors as sweet and as l pure as had been the life of the dead. / l The marble slab was hidden from sight beneath an incomparable galaxy of brigh, and beautiful flowers, placed there by l hands of those who had loved Mrs. Pitts | in life and whose hearts were heavy while paying this last tribute--the tribute of helpless hands in the presence of death | As twilight was gathering a benedictior was pronounced by Rev. MT. Cobbs and l the hundreds of friends turned away from | the newly made grave, many of them perhaps. finding consolation in the words | of the beautiful hymn sung as the funeral party bad left St. Johns Church: | There is a blessed home
 Beyond this land of woe.
 Where trials never come.
 Nor tears of sorrow flow; Where faith is lost in sight
 And patient hopeNs crowned And everlasting light A It's glory throws around" Mir. Frank Pitts of Pittsboro, a brother of Dr. Pitts, came to Montgomery to at- tend the funeral of Mrs. Pitts as did Mir and Mrs. A. J. Mapes of Birmingham kinspeople of MT. and Mrs. Screws. Funeral of Child.
 The funeral of Charles Moore. the in- fant son of MT. and Mrs. J. A. Chamh- liss. took place yesterday morning from,
 the family residence at 215 North Jackson Street. The services were conducted by Rev. A. L. Andrews of the Dexter Ave ct