The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-08

hour the night previous to his death and retired apparently In the best of spirits. He arose at an early hour and repaired to the bath room. It was there that he was stricken by the at tack. He staggered from the bath room to his bed and fell across 1t. Mrs. Flowers quickly summoned as- sistance. but her husband was dead within twenty minutes.
 The news was immediately tele- graphed the family in Montgomery
 and a. special train was immediately chartered by his sons in Montgomery for Jakin. The special returned last night at 10 o'clock.
 l At the time of his death MT. Flow CTS was 67 years old. He was a Geor- gian by birth and was the son of Mir. and Mrs. w. H. Flowers. In company with his brothers, he
 entered business life early and the Flowers Bros, soon became prominent factors in the lumber business of the world.
 They were practically the pioneers in developing the lumber interests of South Alabama and nearly forty years ago the deceased moved to Boiling, Butler County, where he conducted one of the largest lumber mills in the South.
 He was also interested in lumber
 interests throughout the lumber sec- tions of Georgia and Alabama. He leaves his wife, four brothers, William M. Flowers of Greenville, J. lD. Flowers of Dothan, F. A. Flowers of Montgomery, and J. H. Flowers of
 Blakely, Ga.; four sisters, Mrs. c. H. Chandler of Montgomery, Mrs. pr. Perry of Greensboro, and Mrs. Reid
 and Mrs. Hammell of Bainbridge, Ga. He leaves six sons. E. P. Flowers, w. H. Flowers, Brooks Flowers, John | J. Flowers Jr, Arthur Flowers and | James Flowers of Montgomery, and | two daughters, Mrs. R. E. Steiner and Mrs. Richard Steiner of Montgomery. | MT Flowers also has wide family connections throughout Alabama. The deceased was always dis tinctly business man. Although he achieved prominence in every commit nifty in which he lived, he never sought public office. When the Hon. w. J. Sanford was chosen Governor of Ala bama he rendered to MT. Flowers the important position of President of the Convict Board. MT Flowers after ma ture deliberation decided to refuse to
 enter public life
 In church work, however. the de- ceased was well known. He was a lifelong member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and since his advent | to Montgomery in 1900 he has had his membership in the Court Street Meth odist Church. He always attended the annual meetings of the Alabama Con- ference of the Methodist Church and was a member of some of it's most im- portant committees. He was always a liberal donor to the work of the church and was esteemed by the entire Methodist ministry of Alabama. On reaching Montgomery the body of MT. Flowers was taken to his home on the corner of Court and Alabama Streets.
 The funeral will take place this afternoon at 4 o'clock from the Court Street Methodist Church. Rev. J. A. Rice, D. D., will oficiate. The inter- ment will be in Oakwood Cemetery. The pail bearers will be: Active-R. T. Bishop. H. NJ. Hob
 bic, Judge William H. Thomas. J. l..
 Hall. R. s. Williams, G. A. Thigpen, W. B. Jones.
 Judge Thomas G. Jones. J. I. McKin- ney, B. P. Crum, Bradford Dunham, l.. NJ. Lane, J. S. Dowdell, Dr. John Mosely, J. H. Hunter, B. M. Wash
 burn.
 The body of Mir Charles p. West, | Jr., a well known citizen of Montgom- l cry, who died suddenly in Memphis, | Tenn, Thursday morning, reached Montgomery at II o'clock yesterday morning and at 4:4o o'clock yesterday afternoon 1t was taken to Clayton for interment.
 Although MT. West had lived in | Montgomery only about two years, he had gathered about him large num- Der of friends and & number of these
 were at the union railway station to
 pay their respects to his memory when the train bearing the body from
 Memphis arrived. No funeral services were held in Montgomery The f1ner- al will take place in Clayton today