The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-29
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when the choir rendered the OPEN
ing funeral anthem. DR. Charles H.
Ryland read the chapter from Co.
rinthians in the service for the dead.
and Dr. T. J. Shipman made the
prayer, referring touchingly to the
life and service of the deceased min
lister. DR.. II. j. Wllingham. who
presided. announced the fayorite
hymn OF their old pastor--"Here /
Raise My Ebenezer," and this was
sung with much feeling by the con-
sregation and the choir Then, in
broken voices. ministers and Iaymen,
prominent in the church who had
best known this beloved man and
his work. paid tender, eloquent tri-
butte TO his work and worth to the
church and the state.
Or. r. II. Pitt, Or, w W. Landrum.
Lieutenant Governor ] TAYLOR Ei-
Tyson and others who knew and loved
him were called upon by Or. Will
bingham.
All through the service there was
breathed the same tender spirit of
devotion to the man and sorrow at
his passing, Or. Andrew j. Broad
due made the final prayer and as tha
body was solemnly borne from tha
church II. S. Watkins rendered sweet
ly tenor solo--"Saved by Grace"
Sorrowfully the mourners in So
emn procession followed the body Of
their old pastor to Hollywood and
Just as the sun was sinking behind
the Western hills they tenderly laid
him in his resting place beneath its
classic shades, tarrying to drop a
tear upon his tomb.
Funeral at Fork Union
The main funeral services was held
at Fork Union Tuesday. the crowd
who had journeyed there to pay the
last tribute of respect being so large
that ii was necessary to hold the fun
eral in the large auditorium of the
Fork Union academy. Or. s. w.
president Of Richmond
Follege. presided. and the ministers
present on the rostrum were Dir. w.
w. Landrum, Of Louisville; Dr
Thomas j. shipinan, OF Meridian,
Miss; Rev. +. H. Martin, OF Nsar-
lottesville. DR.. L, H Walton, OF
scottsville; DR. Hugh smith. of Mar
tinsville: DR. II. w. Province. mission
ary TO China; Or ". J. Shipman. OF
.Rice's Station and DR., Shumate. OF
Fork Uriou. Each OF these paid
eloquent tribute TO the dead
AS the body was brought into the
duu1ltTluTn the CHpH rendered tue
hymn 'Sers ant of God, Well Done
and othe, hymns were rendered. Rev.
J. H. Williams, of Brookneal. Va,
and Mrs. Wright. of Fork Union,
sang solos
Nephews of Or Hatcher acted as
pailbearers at Fork Union. The body
lay in state in the academy chapel
Tuesday night and was brought to
Richmond on an early train yester-
day. tho dsacons of Grace Street Rap
list church acting as pallbearers here.
Body Brought Here.
IN the Barty which accc mpanied
the bod Mere was Rev. Eldrhdge II,
his son. and Mrs. Hatcher;
Mrs. William + Hatcher. and Misses
Elizabeth and Orrie Hatcher and Mrs.
VI. J. pemott, of Lynchburg. daugh
5ers, ana the ministers and layrnen
who participated In the funeral SER
ices at Fork Union. Another daugh-
'er of The deceased minister Is abroad
9n vacation and could not he here
m time for the funeral,
The people of Fork Union. among
whom DR. Hatcher has spent the last
lft-en wears OF his life. we're much
that the burial was not
% take place there. but when inform
ID of the action OF the family In de-
'ersnce the w.ehes Of the committee
from his old congregation, Yielded
The board OF trustees OF Richmond
'ollegs, Of which DIR Hatcher was
onR member, met yesterday In the
flee Of the president. Lieutenant
Governor J. TAYLOR Eliyson, and APP
'ointed The following committee to
iraft suitable resolutions on his
leatn: President Ellyson, Dir. T. 8.
Or. c. II. Ryiand. DR.. John
R. Baaby and Judge W. r. Barks-
1a!e. The members of the board al
ended the funeral yesterday in =
'ody A. III