The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-11-13
MAURY MOURNS
her LOVED SON
THOUSANDS GATHER AT STATION
TO MEET REMAINS OF SEN
AToR cARMAck.
SCENE OF INEEPRESSIBLE SORROW
Tears Course Down The Cheeks Of
Strong Men Men As Body is
Borne to Home.

Columbians and Maury countian,
have gathered in large numbers OF
several occasions in the past to wei
come home the countys greatest and
most loved son-Tennessee's most
gifted and deeply honored statesman
and citizen. They have met him with
martial music, with flags and bunting
waving and have escorted him in tri-
umph through the streets when as the
champion of the home against the sa-
loon he fought the battles of the
mothers and the children Of the Volun-
teer state; but never was Homecoming
sadder or was greater, deeper grief
shown than when the train bearing
the remains of Edward Ward Carmack
pulled into the Columbia depot Tues
day afternoon.
Five hundred men stood with barred
and bowed heads, with grief stricken
hearts as all that was mortal Of the
man they loved and honored neared
the home he loved best of ALL the pref
ty town where he had started out in
young manhood, had won his first hon.
ors and political preferment, had
woed and won his noble wife. Tears |
coursed down the cheeks of the |
strongest men-men who had been his
lifelong and devoted friends, who had
his rise to the most exalted
position among the citizens of proud
state with pride, who had helped him
n his struggles and had contributed
n some measure to his success. They
owed him for his clean and worthy
manhood, for his exalted ideals, for
lis intrepid and fearless fight against
he corrupt and for better citizen
hip, for his warm heart and loyal ,
and bitter indeed was their 9
rief at his awful and untimely death. ,
Another five hundred ladies and j.,
chool boys mingled their tears with
hose of the husbands and fathers of ;,
he county and Joined in this tribute !
} the noble dead. AS the train .
cached the depot the great bell at
le court house sent its musical tones
If beyond the bounds OF the town in -
equiem for the dead Loving, gentle
ands took the remains from the train
} the hearse and assisted the friends
i'd family to the waiting carriages.
Then the line of march was taken
} town to the Carmack home on
est Seventh street. First came the
,arse bearing the loved remains and c
en- a large wagon bearing the floral
ibutes from Nashville friends. Com
mics A, B, G, of the Columbia Mill
ry Academy in full uniform under
e command of Capt Newman, U. 8.
bearing their draped school flag VI
lowed next, about two hundred ~
'ong. Then came three-hundred of II
. leading citizens of town and coun- 'e
who marched on foot under COM Sd
ind of Major w. ]. Whitthorne. WI
KIT came the carriages containing lol
} family, and then nearly hundred &c
vate conveyances filed with co
ends. The march was up Garden ia
eet to West Seventh and on out
,st Seventh to the Carmack home, CT
ere the remains awaited the fu-
al.
here were many prominent men of
state, chose personal friends of
lator Carmack aboard the train
N Nashville and many more ar we
I'd from many points in the state vas
morning. During the hour when the
remains were being conveyed to ner
home every up town business Hol
Sc in Columbia closed its doors. the
mess has since been at a stand Ma!
and deep gfoom appears to have Elk
led over the community. Activity hell
III lines has ceased, even a big Rev
ct fair showing here this week Fra
ed down in sympathy with the Smi
It manifested by the community.
ng the afternoon loving hands r.,
, busy draping the auditorium of Tho
First Methodist church for the na,r
raj. sist,