The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-20
SERVICES AT CRAVE
 SIMPLE BUT SOLEMN
Great Men and Small Unite to Pay
 Him Last Homage.
Eulosy at Soldiers Home By General Sanford, Funeral Services At Mount Zisn Baptist Church and Body
 Is Laid Besides Those of
 His Father and Mother.
BY c. s. PARTRIDGE.

Mountain Creek, May 19.-(Specfal.) Upon the crest of Zion Hill at Mar bury. in the plot where lie his father and his mother. and close to the church to which he gave a part of his wealth of devotion, the body of Jefferson Manly -'alkner, soldier, statesman. patriot, was returned to it's Mother Earth this afternoon.
 His widow and sons. his other kins- men, his friends in peace and his com rades in arms, by ceremonies not the less solemn because they were simple. had spoken their reverence and their sorrow; "taps.' the last clarion call that calls the soldier from camp and field and lulls his spirit into eternal rest was played; and the company. gathered together from the whole of a great State, dispersed, stricken with individual and personal sense of loss.
 The funeral of Captain Falkner. conducted at the Mount Zion Baptist Church at Marbury, mile from the Soldiers Home that stands as a mem orial of the greatness of his spirit and hardly farther from his own home. made for the comfort and delight of his
  own and his own family's home, was notable for the simplicity of it's cere- monies and the assemblage of his friends and admirers
 The coffin in which the body had been placed was carried to the church and the grave in farm wagon, decent ly draped in black, and drawn by mule; the men and the women who followed along the highway high in the councils of state and arc famed as leaders of thought and progress or merely as the humble comrades of the great admired where they might not successfully emulate.
 The Chief Justice of the State was therei other men learned in the law or skilled in finance and industry, hold CTS of public trust. and women whose culture has helped to maintain the refinement and keep alive the ideals of the South were there; there were inmates of the Soldiers Home whither they had been led, through the gener- osity and energy and ability of Captain Falkner, some of them from the poor houses of Alabama to pass their age in comfort: there were citizens of the countryside in which Captain Falkner lived; there were the black servants who delighted to call him master
 The services were conducted at Mt Zion Baptist Church. The body was brought shortly after noon yesterday to the Soldiers Home and placed in the crossing of the halls that Captain Falkner, as a close friend said yes terday, regarded as the center of the universe. Here Generl John w. A. Sanford spoke eloquently of man who had been the personal friend of himself as well as the general friend of the people of Alabama.
 At 2 o'clock the body was taken to Mount Zion Baptist Church, at Mar bury, of which Captain Falkner was a member. and Rev. J. A. Smith, pas tor of the church, said a brief funeral service. Then. by the committal ser vice of the United Confederate Veter- ans, read by Judge John Purifoy and Major John G. Harris. the body was placed in the grave, O. E, Courtney of Montgomery played taps and Captain FaIkner was forever lost to human sight.
 Friend of All Classes.
 There was a representative rather than a large concourse of people at the funeral of Captain Falkner. Ow- ing to the shortness of time in which his friends had to prepare for journey to Mountain Creek and to the diff culty of getting here, many who would gladly have been present perforce re- mained away.
 From Montgomery not more. per hape, than 100 persons came to dem onstrate. by a last display, their af- lection for friend and benefactor; oth- CTS, by reason of a lack of money, or by reason of the infirmities of age, or because of some other reason. were not able to undertake a journey so expensive, arduous and long.
 But the hundred that came from Montgomery and those who came to Mountain Creek from other cities, as well as those who. resident in this hhnrh0Od- a ha ceremonies, stood for every rank and walk of life-clergymen. attorneys, soldiers, statesmen, farmers, mer- chants, bankers; while the women gathered there, members of the patri- otic societies that have fostered the spirit of the Old South, stood for all that is best of the courage and the chivalry and the culture of the land for which Captain Falkner and his comrades had fought.
 Practically all of the delegation from Montgomery left the city at s:25. J. Seward Utley. by special re- quest of George w. Jones. came to Mountain Creek upon an earlier train that he might assist members of the FaIkner family in the arrangements for the funeral, but other friends left on the Louisville and Nashville fast train which was stopped on extraordi- nary orders at Mountain Creek.
 JTpon arrival In Mountain Creek the company divided, some going to the Falkner residence, others to the Sol diers Home, where dinner was served at noon under the direction of Cap tain J. M. Simpson. Commandant of the Home.
 Taken to Soldiers Home
 Captain Falkner's body lay in state at the Falkner home until nearly o'clock, when it was carried to the Soldiers Home. It's conveyance to the home was notable for the demo- cratic simplicity of the cortege which. it was remarked by more than one of his friends, was in close accord with the republican spirit of his life.
 For a hearse a spring wagon, that had been often utilized in farm work, was draped with mourning. Upon 1t the coffin, upon which were plates bearing the name of Cants'~ and An embossed (