The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-04-06
TENNESSEE STATESMAN IS BUR-
LED IN "oLD GRAY GENE
Terry" AT KNOXVILLE.
People From All Sections of the State
Gathered to Pay a Last Tribute of
Respect to the Popular Exponent
of Sunshine"
of Sunshine

NHoANllle, Tenn, April 5.-Beneath
towering embankment of floral tri-
Dutes OF love and affection, symbolic
Of the beautiful nature and sunshine
OF WAich he was a living exponent,
all hat is mortal of the late Sen
ator Robert Love Taylor now rests in
Old Gray cemetery, in this city.
Following the return of the funeral
train to this city this morning, ar
riving soon after o'clock from it's
pilgrimage to Nashville, where the
dead statesman lay in the legislative
halls yesterday, the obsequies were
held. At the Southern railway sta
tion the funeral party was met by
| a committee of citizens who, with a
guard of honor from Knoxville lodge,
B.P.O.E., of which the senator was 4
member, formed an escort to the a,:-
ditorium. At $50 o'clock this spa
cious building was opened i'd for
two hours thousands of friends and
admirers of the now deceased .apos-
tie of sunshine" passed and viewed
his lifeless form.
At 11.30 o'clock, the hour appointed
+ for :he ceremonies, the auditorium's S
seating capacity of 5000 was fully oc-
cupied, Rev. l. P. Martin, D. D., pas
tor, f the Church Street Methodist
Episcopal church, south, of which
Senator Taylor was a member dur
ing lis residence in this city, con-
, Quoted the ritualistic services. Rev.
= w. ;. Neighbors, D. D., president of
Sullins college, Bristol, Tenn, a for
mer pastor and a lifelong friend of
the senator, delivered the funeral ora
tion, in which he spoke fittingly of
the life and loTable character of the
lam ented senator. A quartet sang,
including the favorite hymn of the
senator, Jesus, Lover of My Soul"
At the conclusion of the services at
the auditorium, the professional was
begun to Old Gray cecetery, about
one mile distant Accompanied by
the University of Tennessee Military
band, the University Cadet ba Talon,
city and federal officials, cong 'css-
ional committeeman, relatives ard
friends, the body was conveyed to it's
last resting place.
Beneath a massive oak and beside
his first wife and little daughter, Mary,
who died in this city years ago, the
dead senator now reposes.
During the professional business
houses, manufactures and street ra1r-
ways suspended operations, and
church bells tolled. All city, county
and federal offices were closed, in
Guiding the postoffice ana the federal
pension office of which Senator Tay-
l0r was chief when he was pension
agent in 1885. The mass of floral
tributes was most beautiful, tributes
of love and affection for the de-
ceased statesman
They came from friends in Wash
, ington, all over Tennessee and from
every state in the Union, The entire
Taylor square in the cemetery was
hidden from view by the floral en-
bankment.
In his eulogy, Dr. Neighbors spoke
incidentally Of the life of Senator
Taylor. First of all, he said his mar
Yelols power over men was due to
Senator Tayiors unbounded friend
ship for all sorts and conditions of
humanity. His second asset was his
beautiful songs and stories, back of
which was his peculiar capacity to
give them pathos and pungency and
power. The simple manner in which
Senator Taylor uttered his thoughts
was given as the third source of his
power over men, and he said: only
great men can be simple; only great
men are capable of going to the very
heart of things, bringing up the hid
den depths and making them trans
parent" a