The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-09-30
SIMPLE SERVICES
/. At FUNERAL Of EX
GOV. PROCTOR
Former Chief Executive Laid 10
Rest at Proctor.
GLASSWARE OBLIGATED
REPRESENTATIVE Men from All Parts of
Vermont Attended obsequIes
Yesterday Afternoon
GLASSWARE OBLIGATED

Proctor, Sept. 30-With religions
ceremonies of the simplest character
attended by demonstration of tho
respect felt for him by the entire COM
munity in which he had lived. the
body of Fletcher Dutton Proctor. gov.
ernor OF the state of Vermont from
1906 to 1908, was committed to the
tomb yesterday afternoon. Business
was entirely suspended In the town
OF Proctor flags were displayed at half
STAFF, and the solemnity of the occas.
ion was enhanced by lowering skies
and showers of rain. Besides the peo.
pie OF the town, men of prominence
from all parts of the state and from
outside the state were present. and
while the services in the Union church
were in progress many hundreds of
people awaited outside to ioin in the
procession to the cemetery. The
church itself was filed to its capacity
when the funeral cortege arrived and
the body was borne in, followed by the
relatives and immediate friends of the
family, who filled the seats which
had been reserved.
The casket was borne into the
church by F. c. Partridge, e. r.
Morse, S. A. Howard, G.. C. Robinson
G. II. Davis, w. e. Higbee, b. T. Tay-
Tor and Redfeld Proctor, directors of
the Vermont Marble company.
Rev. J. w. Bixler Of New London
Ct, a classmate Of Ex-Governor Proc.
tor of Amherst college and Rev. F. w.
Raymond of Proctor were the officia-
ting clergymen. The services consist
ed of scripture readings and prayers,
only No eulogy was pronounced, al
though the prayers bore testimony to
the usefulness, in the business world
and in public service, of the life which
had come to an end
While the obsequies were in prog
ress within the church impressive
scenes We're being enacted out of
doors. Conforming the falling rain.
the employees Of the Vermont Marble
company, gathered by hundreds at
the works and marched along the
roads leading to the church and to the
cemetery. The children of the public
schools assembled at the Y. NJ. c. A..
building and when the men and boys
had halted forming a long lane of
silent and saddened humanity along
the roads, the little ones marched be-
tween to the cemetery where they lin.
ed along 10th sides OF the path from
the cemetery gate to the Proctor maus
oleum and formed the final lane
through which the body of the former
governor was TO pass to its rest. And
so between these long lines of men
and children the body passed from the
church to the tomb, hundreds of men
and women, representing nearly all
walks Of life, trudged through the mud
behind the long line of carriages. in
order to pay at the end their tribute
of respect as the body was deposited
in its sepulcher.
Among the many who were present
in the church and followed the body
TO the cemetery were Gov. John A.
Mead, with Gen Lee S. Tillotson, Col.
ID. l.. Morgan and Maj. Harvey r.
Kingsley. OF his military stan; Unit.
ed States Senator'S William p. billing.
ham and Carroll S. Page of Vermont
and William Murray Crane Of Massa.
chusetts; Congressman David ]. Fos-
er and Frank Plumley of Vermont and
George p. Lawrence OF Massachusetts,,
Ex-Govs. John w. Stewart, Samuel Il.