The Prescott daily news., 1909-05-19
OF THE
 PITTMANS SUNDAY
A Large Gathering of the Family Do
 Honor to the Memory of the Father


 at 9 am. the sons and daughters of the late Fortunatus Putnam ga athered on the sacred grounds of their childhood and youth at dear old Liberty church yard for the purpose of placing an ap- propriate monument over his sac red dust. These sons and daugh- ters came from Texas. Oklahoma Louisiana and Arkansas.
 Friends came from far and near to share in this beautiful tribute to the beloved deade Already had their generous hands cleaned up the debris of years accumula- ton and every spot around gay. evidence of their loving thought fulnesS. They brought 5ashets laden with the choicest and best of viands, and when the noon-tide hour arrived the trees, around the best and most lhallowed spring on this earth, shaded group of friends seated about as happy a festal board as ever graced the most magnificent ban quet hall in it's richest setting. Friends long separated renewed | the old fervOr of love and many were the reminescenses given when laughter and tears vied with each other as to which should predominate
 The stone was reverently set in its place by loving hands.
 1t truly represented the pion- ger sman as he was with it's carv- ing in bark with the fac-simile of an old grass rope wound around it's gnarled old knots. The inscrip- tion, An Honest Man was indeed typical of his life. His was the embodiment of the words in their fullest sense as they could be ap- piled in all their various phases
 No more choice lines could have been conceived that would give tone to a young life than were engraved near the base of the monument. and which he so often quoted
 Count that day lost whose
 low descending sun,
 Views from thy hand no wor-
 thy action done
 On Sunday a still larger con- course of people gathered to pay tribute to the dear old man who had lived and loved so long.
 With a heart almost too full for utterance Dr. Norwood, who had known him intimately since his own early boyhood paid glor ious tribute. He said that he had known him amid conditions that tried mems souls to the utmost. hal known him when the country was yet a wilderness where it took a strong heart and a steady hand to bring it into blossoming beauty had known him when the trump of war called him from the | fly; had known him after the carnage of battle had laid waste the fortunes gained in time of peace had known him when grim death robbed him of the beauti- ful wife of his bouyant and hap py youth and in all relations and conditions he found him the brave cheerful courageous spirit that never surrendered but with each | seeming defeat arose a strong CT and mightier victor.
 | Dr. Norwood was followed by Dr. C.. k Cunningham, pastor of | the Universalist church of Little Rock vino delivered a magnificent address iu line with the Scripture lesson Since thou vast precious in my : ghr thou hast been hor- orabie, and 1 love thee; for have created him for my glory
 Evsryb, dy seemed to hang spell bound on the words as they fell from the hps of the speaker. ne portrayed in glowing terms, the ascent of man from his creation uatil the present, and pictured, with the vividness of divine seer his continued ascent until Christ shall put all rule and all author ity under his feet when he will then deliver up the kingdom to | the Father and God shall be all and in all,"
 Another sumptuous dinner was spread and everybody had plen- ty and to spare.
 Words fail to express the deep gratitude of the whole Pittman family to the dear friends who turned a sweet sad mission into a sacred joy. They would like to