The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-09-26
DEATH OF MIR. WINTER.
Montgomery Young Man Dies In Hunts
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vile.
News of the death of Leon Winter,
which occurred at o'clock yesterday
morning at Huntsville. at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Well, parents of
Mrs. Winter. was received in Mont
aonery yesterday morning.
For some months Mr., Winters health
has been falling and since last Janu-
ary he had travelled constantly. going
from place to place seeking benefit in
change until his condition became such
as to make travelling impossible, and
he went to Huntsville to the home of
the parents of his wife. where he died
Mr.. Winter was a member of the
Montgomery firm of Winter. Loeb & Co.
He was one of the most popular young
business men in this city, affable in
manner and possessing a rare ability
In the making of friends. He was the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Winter of
this city. He was SO years old, was
born and reared in Montgomery. He
married Miss We'll of Huntsville, who
with one little daughter, Gertrude, sur
wives him. He leaves besides his par
ents, two brothers and two sisters.
His brothers are Sidney Winter and
Milton Winter of Montgomery. and his
sisters are Mrs, Florence Meyerhoff of
New York and Mrs. Nellie Beer of
Vicksburg, Miss He leaves a number
of other relatives in Montgomery.
Sidney Winter aud Milton Winter,
brothers of the deceased. and Harry
Well and Lawrence Well, brothers of
Mrs. Winter, and Bert Well. cousin,
left yesterday morning for Huntsville
and on the late afternoon train Mrs
Winter. mother of the deceased, Mrs
Meyerhoff, Jacques Loeb and Michel
Loeb left for Huntsville.
The funeral services will DO held
this afternoon at $3.50 o'clock at Hunts
vile and the interment will be made
at the cemetery at that place.
Burial of Mr.. HargrOve.
On hillside of the new division OF
lakewood Cemetery the remains of Mr..
Fort Hargrove, who died Monday
afternoon were inferred late yesterday
afternoon and Rev. H. A. Rice. d. D.
pastor of the Court Street Methodist
chuch. dismissed the party of friends
OF MIR. and Mrs. Hargrove, who gath
cred in drizzling rain. with bene-
diction.
The funeral services were conducted
at the residence of Mr.. l.. ]. P. 0w-
en-, father-in-law of Mr.. Hargrove, al
16 Pleasant Avenue, beginning at sc
o'clock. At this hour heavy rain
was falling. but the residence was
more than filed with sympathizing
IflenQS OF the IdHlly. Inc S0ENlCSs
| were conducted Jointly by Rev. Charles
A. Stakely, D. D., pastor of the First
Baptist Church. Rev. J. A. Rice. n.
D., pastor of TIE Court Street Metho-
dist Church, and Rev. j. w. O'Hara
pastor of the Clayton Street Baptist
Church.
DIR. Stakely paid an earnest and sim
eere tribute to the dead. He said thai
Mr.. Hargrove and himself were of the
same generation. They had been boys
together in Montgomery. He recalled
that the Hargrove family was one OF
tho old families of Montgomery, one
of those families that had left its i'm
preston upon the community. whose
men and women had been an inspira-
tion to those who came behind them.
His friend was dead he said, but his
influence would continue to live be-
cause he was a good man.
The opening and closing prayers
were said respectively by DIR. Rice and
Mr.. OHara.
The following gentlemen served as
pallbeareTs: w. b. Whiting, w. r..
Davidson, Bruce Kennedy. r. p. Stout,
~. u. Andrews and Willis Chandler.
Seldom has more beautiful flowers
been seen at q funeral than were laid
upon the last resting place of Mr..
HargroYe. Wrought into many splen-
did and significant designs they were
sent from all sections of the city and
they completely hid the marble slab
that closed the new grave from view.