Richmond planet., 1907-01-05
PROFESSOR HAYES Is DEAD.

President C. W. Hayes died at
John Hopkins Hospital. Baltimore.
Maryland. Saturday morning Decem-
Der 22nd. 1906
He had been sick since 1905 and
visited the Worlds Baptist Congress
in London. England and attempted
TO travel on the continent with the
hope OF regaining his health. but he
grew slowly worse until at the meet
ing of the convention I'm Norfolk he
showed decided breakdown
and the Convention made a large
appropriation and sent him 20 Hot
Springs, Ark. He returned the lat
ter part of the Summer very little
improved. but never for once decid-
ed 90 give up his work SO he went on
as i'm former years planning 20 open
school as usual. the first OF October
School being opened ne continued TO
do his work until IL became evident
20 all that he was face TO face with
a desperate struggle for his life; he
then tried roaming the fields in com
pany with his intimate friends. then
resortcd 20 horseback riding. and as
a last resort went 90 John Hopkin' S
Hospital December 10th.
If
and he was confined 20 his bed from
thence until he died. During his ill
ness Prof Woods OF tho William
Clayton Academy. ore Of his recent
graduates visited him every day. as
we'll as his brothers Charles and
John. also Drs. Johnson of Washing
ton and Baltimore.
Under the advice of Prof. Woods
his wife and child wer called to the
hospital on the 10th and spent sew
eral DAYS, and returned believing
him much improved until the au-
thorities pronounced him worse Fri
day morning December 21st. Mrs.
HAYES and Rev. w. II. Moses has
tened 20 his bedside, with the hope
Of bringing him home alive, on reach
ing Washington a 'Hhone message
from the hospital announced that he
was barely alive at II o'clock Friday
night on reaching Baltimore an
hour and a half later they We're in
formed by Prof. Woods that he had
passed away at 1920.
The sad news was given to the
country at large. and DR.. Moses pro-
ceeded TO arrange to carry his body
back 20 the school. accompanied by
his grief strickened wife. mis- broth
ers. his mother AID sister.
The remains reached Lynchburg
five O'Clock Sunday morning. Lynch
burg was deeply stirred and a large
number of citizens together with the
male students of the Seminary met
the remains which were conveyed to
the Seminary Hin by Undertaken
Higginbotham and placed in the par
lor of his home where a constant
l., ffxr enfN in
and out taking the last look at the
most distinguished colOred baptist
layman aud educator in the United
States.
Sunday and Monday the telephone
was constantly ringing words OF
sympathy from both the white and
colored citizens of Lynchburg, and
The county dispatches and special
deliveries bearing sympathy poured
in from all sections Of the country,
and the Monday trains brought dis
tinguished people from every secuon
of Virginia and the nearby states.
DIR. Boiling OF Norfolk, the president
of the convention was among the
first to arrive on Monday ana pro-
ceeded as such TO arrange Tor lhe
funeral to take place on xmas uay'
It WAS NInaS ldoi hiAS HHNH 80
had never Witnessed before, the stu
dent body was visibly affected and
strong men mingled their tears with
the pitiful wall of the grief stricken
widow and five little children, as she
cried Professor was so tired and
| didn't know it."
At eleven o'clock the exercises
were begun in the college chapei,
with a request from Mrs. Hayes ana
the understanding that DR.. X. H.
Boiling would preach funeral ser
mon preceded by general remarks
by different brethren. DIR. Han oil
Danville read an appropriate pas
sage of scripture after a song by the
students and Rev. Wynn led In Ter
vent prayer.
DR.. Boiling proceeded to intro
duce Or. w. r. Ashburn and Rev. Il.
H. White and Prof. Chain in behali
of the faculty who proceeded TO read
the long list OF resolutions from all
sections of Virginia, Maryland, the
District OF Columbia. Pennsylvania,