The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-05
WITH ALL RONORS
THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE
JUDGE ROBERT FALLIGANT.
MILITARY ESCORT
WILL ACCOMPANY THE REMAINS
FROM HOUSE TO CHURCH.

Civic and Military Organizations
Will Join in Paying This Last
Tribute to the Memory of the Dis
Singuixhed Georgian-Omcers OF
First Regiment and the Guards
Will Compose Special Military
Guard of HOnor-COnfederate Or
EanixatiOns to he in Line-MasOns
Funeral Services to BE Celebrated
at Christ Church.
The funeral of Judge Robert Falli-
giant will take place at Chrust Church
at 8 o'clock this morning At 9:45
o'clock the train that will convey his
remains to Augusta where the inter
ment will take place, will leave the
Central of Georgia station.
An imposing cortege of civic and mil
itary organizations will escort the re-
mains of the late judge from the FAM
sly residence to the church and from
the church to the station. Every in
stitution with which during his long
and useful life, he was connected will
be represented in the funeral process
sion. Some of these organizations will
meet at the residence. while others will
form at their halls or armories.
The band of the First Regiment of
Infantry will head the escort and will
be followed by the Oglethorpe Light
Infantry of which command Judge Fall
ligant was an honorary member and
of which for seventeen years he had
been captain having resigned his COM
mission in 1889.
The special military guard OF honor
will consist of the officers of the First
Regiment of Infantry and those OF Tie
Savannah Volunteer Guards Battalion.
These officers will parade dismounted
and will accompany the remains from
the house to the church.
The principal Confederate escort will
be the Confederate Veterans Associa-
ton, of which for more than two
years Judge Falligant had been the
commanding officer. The association
will be itself escorted by McLaws Camp
of United Confederate Veterans and
Barlow Camp of Sons of Veterans.
The fraternal organizations will in
sons and Excelsior Lodge of knights of
Pythias, of both of which Judge Fal-
ligant had been a member for many
years. The county commissioners, the
Board of Managers of the Telfair
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the of
f1cers of the county and other public
and quasi-public bodies and corpora
tons will also be represented at the
funeral. The bar of Savannah will
CT fIr n-F1 - e..
at S:15 o'clock and will attend the
funeral in a body.
The funeral services at Christ Church
will be conducted by Rev. Robb White,
assisted by Rev. NJ. Campbell Stryker.
1mmedia tely after the services at the
church the remains will be conveyed
to the Central of Georgia station and
thence to Augusta. The military and
other escorts will accompany the re-
mains to the train and a large number
of the veterans, with delegations from
most of the other bodies. will make
the trip to the place of interment.
The Oglethorpes have been compelled
TO abandon their hopes of going with
the remains to the grave, as satisfac-
tory arrangements with the railway
could not be made. Besides the veter-
ans. however, there will be detachments
from the Sons of Veterans and other
organizations. Representing the County
Commissioners will be Mr.. A. B. Moore
vice chairman of the board; Mr.. w
F. Chaplin, superintendent Of public
works and roads. and Mr.. G. Reuben
Butler, clerk to the commissioners.
The military escort and other escorts
that will not accompany the remains
to Augusta will be drawn up in line
as the train pulls out of the station
Muffied drums will beat "the soldiers
last tattoo" and just as the car contain
ing the body clears the station the
mournful notes of taps" will be
sounded. This will be Judge Falli-
gant's farewell to the city in which he
was born and in which he spent most
of the days of his life