The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-30
THEIR GRAVES NEAR
EACH OTHER.
Bodies of Harry Saunders and Lilly
flushing 10 Reaf.

TWO funerals, the scenes at, and the
circumstances surrounding which. were
| the saddest and most pathetic that
! have occurred in Savannah in many
| days, took place yesterday afternoon.
| They were the last rites and laying
| to rest of the bodies of Miss Lillian
Rushing and Mr.. Harry p. Saunders,
the young people who Were engaged to
be married, and who met death in an
accident at the Seaboard Air Line
| crossing on the Ogeechee road We'd
nesday afternoon. The story of the
accident has been told in the Morning
| News. While returning to the city
form a hunting expedition, wagon
containing a party of four, of which
the above couple were two, was struck
by a northbound train and the couple
killed. The interment of both bodies
was in Laurel Grove Cemetery, in
separate lots, within a few yards of
each other.
The funeral of Miss Rushing took
place from the family residence, No.
677 Lavinia street, at 3 o'clock. Until
a late hour the night before and all of
yesterday hundreds of friends of the
family called rt the house to 10y
their respects to the departed and
console the sorrowing mother and rel
atives, At the hour of the funeral
the house was filed and many stood
without. Promptly at the hour the
funeral proceeded to the cemetery. At
the grave the religious services were
by Rev. w. A. Nesbit of Westminster
Presbyterian Church. Then among
the grief stricken friends the remains
of the young lady were lowered to
their final resting place and the earth
mound which marks the spot was
reared. Many floral tributes were
laid on the mound and the mourners
moved to the grave of the intended
husband, a few steps away. The pail
bearers were Messrs. Leo Mehrtens,
Philip Lutz, William Webster, j. NJ.
Moore, E. Story and r. w. Long.
The scene at the residence and at
the grave was pathetic in the extreme.
The pallid drawn faces of those pres
ent bespoke that the first shock of ac-
cident had not yet passed away, and
the true realization dawned upon the
relatives and friends alike. Their ex-
pressions showed that internal suf-
fering which sits deeper and wears
harder than the grief that tears be-
token. Miss Rushing leaves a mother,
three sisters and two brothers. She
was the youngest. her sixteenth birth
day falling last Sunday. One of the
sad features of her death is the fact
that one of her sisters lies critically
i'll in the Park View Sanitarium, I'M
conscious of the accident and they
dare not tell her.
The funeral of Harry P. Saunders
took place at the same hour as that
of Miss Rushing, from st. Patrick's
Church, Father Quinlan officiating.
The funeral was under the military
escort of a detachment from Battery C
of the Savannah Volunteer Guards, of
which battery the young man was a
private. The funeral reached, the GEM
etery within a short while after the
young ladys had retired, and the in
terment was made in a nearby lot. At
ter the religious services many
floral tokens were laid upon the grave
the military detachment fired three
volleys over the resting place of the
departed member and taps" were
sounded.
Mr. Saunders was a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. l.. Saunders. Besides his par
ents, he leaves six brothers and four
sisters.
The pallbearers were: Messrs.
Charles ONeill. James Gallagher, AL
fred Walker. Otto Schroeder, Gus WAL
ker and George Beach.