Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-12
ATLANTA MOURNS
H. C.. STOCKDELL
MaSons and EIks to Honor
Prominent Insurance Man
and Leader in Civic Work.

Atlanta Free Masons will gather this
afternoon and tomorrow to pay their
last tribute to Harry c. Stockdell for
mer Albanian and for years high in the
councils of Masonry. who died at Attn
ems yesterday afternoon. The body will
arrive at the. station at 4:45 o'clock
and will be met by an escort of Masons
and Elks.
There was no more prominent figure
in Atlanta for a score of years than
Harry c. Stockdell, insurance man,
club man, good citizen. He numbered
his friends by the thousand There
was no public movement in which he
did not share. His death will be felt as
a personal loss by hundreds 1t is the
fifth death within a week or two among
the members of Yaarab temple of the
Mystic Shrine
The funeral will be conducted tomor-
row morning at II O'Clock from the
chapel of H. NJ. Patterson & Son. The
Scottish Rite Masons will have charge
of the exercises there and the Atlanta
commandery of Knights Templars will
form an escort to Westvlew cemetery.
The Georgia lodge of Masons will have
charge of the interment. A special
meeting of that body has been called
TO be held at the Masonic temple at
1890 O'Clock tomorrow morning. The
pallbearers will be Harry English. w.
T. Gentry, A. R. Ridley, A L. Waldo.
). Y. Upper, Sr, Arnold Broyles. For
rest Adair, Joe Greenfield. T. ]. JET
fries, j. R. Vickers and |. S. Mitchell.
Mr.. Stockdsll was prominently known
in fraternal circles of Atlanta He was
past master of Georgia lodge No. 90 Of
Masons, member and past high priest
of Mt Zion chapter Ne, 16, Royal Arch
Masons, past commander of the At
lanta cOmmandery of Knights Temp
lars, past commander of Couer DeLeon
chapter of Knights Templars No. 4. He
was also member of all Scottish Rite
bodies in Atlanta, a thirty third degree
Mason, and was the first potentate of
Yaarab temple, Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine. He had been an Elk for sew
eral years.
He is survived by his wife, two
daughters, Mrs. Hugh Foreman. of New
York. and Miss Harriet Stockdell. of
Athens and one son, Clarence Stock
dell, of Atlanta; three sisters, Mrs. S.
B. Harrell, Mrs: NJ NJ. Stanaland and
Mrs. E. B. Erd, and two brothers. ]
Frank and Frederick c. Stockden
Mr.. Stockdell was one of the first At
lanta men to bring here the Southern
headquarters of a large insurance COM
pany, as the score of insurance agen-
cies here now have been instituted
since he opened the Atlanta agency Of
the Phoenix Insurance Company of
Brooklyn.
Eighteen months ago he was given A
life membership in the Capital City club
for his services to that social organi-
cation as promoter, leader and first
president. He organized the Cold
Springs Barbecue club and made Geor-
gia barbecues permanent thing in At
lanta. Atlantans and visitors to the
city can remember many occasions at
which Harry Stockdell presided over
the smoking pits
In October, 1910, Mr.. Stoekdell sew
cred his connection with the insurance
company and left Atlanta to make his
home in Athens He had been a resi-
dent of Atlanta since 1874 when as a
boy of twenty he moved here from Par
kersvile, Ky. In Atlanta his home was
for many years at South Pryor street
and Trinity avenue, and later adjoin-
ing the Marlborough apartments on
Peachtree street.
Members Of the local Fire Under
writer's association will meet in the
Equitable building this afternoon at
o'clock and adopt resolutions of SYM
pathy to be sent to the StockdelI fam
lily.