The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-12

som and her grandfather. In it, ex-
cept the times When they were at
| washington, or MEXICO or refugees
during the war. Senator Ransom nveu
with mis- family.
This is where my mother and faith
er loved to hVe," said one OF the
boys today. '"1hey named IT.
Verona because they We're reading
Shakespeare Two Gentlemen" here
soon after they were married. 1t was
my mother WHO named me pace
| 1t is a significant fact that they are
still the Ransom boys All the chill
dren are long since grown. yet they
have always been the boys" one
| of them is a counterpart of the Gener-
al III his younger days-the likeness
even today was startling. Yet al
ways they nave lived near to the nest
| looking after the home.
! People locked to Verona" this af-
| ternoon. They came on the trains
to Garysburg and to Gumboro and
Idrove over through dry and bin ding
miles of sand. All the way. almost.
| from every direction they drove across
| the Ransom land. Twenty thousand
| and more acres OF it there is, in corn,
| and cotton and timbered tracks that
stop the view across the field. the
house was fllled with women ana girls.
| the ward with a mixture OF men from
every walk of life, the old soldier
| cOmrade, the leaders of affairs OF
State, business friends and nelghbors.
Many were there from his native cOun-
ty OF Warren. and the rest were the
humble people of the county and OF
Halifax across the river, all these
waiting in vague unrest to pay theT
tribute of respect.
The Masons. ninety-two Of them
from the henderson. the Warrenton'
the LittletOn ana the Weldon lodges
formed in the yard. Three times they
marched around the house under the
live oaks and then they opened ranks
and the pali-bearers staggered down
the steps with the coffin, and the non
orary pall-bearerS fell IN Dehlnu anu
the Ransom boys, with their mother
and sister filed slowly after the cas-
ket with it's burden OF warm colored
flowers.
At the gate a wagon. with a negro
driving a mule, took the CONN ana
carried it for the hundred yards TO
the grave in the garden. the MasollS'
the pall-bearers, the family ana the
women with their arms full OF mowers
following slowly along the path' UNI
der the long slaves of the MasollS'
past the cabbages and the tufmpS 20
the clump of trees at the bottom OIL
the garden where the grave was aug.
And then, with the throng standing
about with lifted hats, with the nun
dreds of negroes with the unoptruSlVe
manners of ante-bellum days, stand
ing in the rear the little, Whlte-Iopeu
rector, ReV.-and Confederate MaIor
II A. Weston, read the Episcopal
service of the dead spoke some neart-
felt words for his friend that was gone.
While he was speaking the leVei
RAYS of the shaking sun SHOWN with
a yellow radiance through the dust
of the wide fields upon the homeY
scene; horses neighed in the lot
and from a cedar in the yard MOCK
ing bird trilled it's evening lay. There
under the sturdy walnut and the locust
in it's struggling dress the Masons lald
the Senator. And one knew that ne
was placed in death as he Would nave
lived always in life, in his own ground
near to the ivy covered grave or ms
dead son, Tom. under a tree with the
cotton field beyond the wall.
The body was followed to the grave
nv the widow. Mrs. Pattie Exum Ran
som. her daughter, Miss Esther, and
five sons. Messrs. Matt W., Robert E.,
Joseph, George E. and Patrick Ran
som.
The pail bearers were: X. t. Ste
phenson. M. F. Stancil, w. H. Buffa-
loe, r. l.. Emory. w. j. Hawkins, =.
r. Lacy, T. N. Harrison, r. t. DoWd,
w A. Grant andssvG. L. Crock. active,
and f. H. Busbee. Col. w. II. S. Bur-
gwyn, Judge r. b. PEBBLES, Gen. w. Z.
Roberts, Maj. J. d. Shaw. Col. A. b.
Andrews, Judge r. r. Purnell, DR.. b.
F. Dixon, r. d. Gilmer. Gen. j. S.
Carr.
In addition to the pall-bearers l
noted at the funeral Messrs. L. j. Al
derman and Col. f. A. Macon, of Hen
derson Lodge. No. 229; l.. M. Chaffin.
n T. White w. p. Massenburg, b. 7.
Terrell, Ed. Petar, r. E. Davis, J. a.
Daughton, j. c. yMcCray, Jr., H. B.
Hunter. Alex Katzinstein, W. *, Bar
ham, w. c. Parker, j. w. c. Terrell,
T. NJ. C&stlebury, S. V. Williams, b. G.
Greens. of Warrenton, Caswell-J John
ston Lodge, No. 10; j. II. Harrison,
Jno. Partin, L. l.. Brodie, w. r.
Vaughan, w. E. Bowers, S. E. Rogers,
&C.. S. Northington, w. H. Johnson, H.
J. Caudle, J. S. Dixon, e. b. Penny, Jr.,
F. A Fetter. Jr., of Littleton. Royal
Hart Lodge. No. 497; DR.. S. j.
Picot, of Littleton; Rev. b. S. Bron
son, of Warrenton; William G.. Eyer
ton of Macon; Major Gooch, DR.. a. r.
Zollicoffer, Dallas Zollicoffer, Mr. and
Mrs. t. c. Harrison, r. Wilson, Jno. b.
Burton, of Weldon, Capt. b. M.
Collins of Ridgeway. (who was in
Rhodes Division in the famous 18th
regimenD, of Weldon Lodge; Mr.
and Mrs. w. H. Nicholson,
of Ridgeway: Hon. T. w. Ma
olson, of Ridgeway; Hon. T. w. Ma
son, Dr. Ellis. of Garysburg; James
Grant, F. w. Garrett. r. T. Daniel.
r. w. Russell. Henry Farpen. ]. T.
Evans. A. e. Wilson, w. r. Smith.
w. r. Tilling. j. S. Turner. w. W.
Rose, J. b. Collins, ex-Judge Chas. A.
Cooke. of Indian Territory.