The Green Forest tribune., 1913-01-10
THOUSANDS HONOR MEMORY OF DEPARTED STATESMAN Streets, Church and Cemetery Thronged by Silent Crowd at Funeral of Senator
 Davis, Who Died Last
 Week.
MANY BEAUTIFUL FLORAL TRIBUTES BY FRIENDS
U SENATORS STATE CITY AND COUNTY OFFICIALS, CITIZEN SHIP AND soLDERY MINGLE AT GRAvEsIDE SENATOR. coRTEGE SEVERAL
 CHURCH.

Little Rock.-Senator Jeff Davis WAS buried here Sunday afternoon with all honors that could be accorded any man.
 The funeral was one of the largest and most impressive ever seen in this section of the United States.
 Many men of note were present to pay their last respects to the dead. Senators, Congressman, state officials, legislators, city and county officials and many others gathered at the grave side.
 Thousands of people who could not gain a7mittance to the church where the funeral was held stood on the oul- side with heads barred till the service was over.
 Promptly at three o'clock as an- nounced the funeral procession left the home of the Davis family, where the dead senator had been lying in state since his death, and moved to. ward the church where the public serv- ices were to be held.
 The procession was headed by the First Regiment band of the Arkansas state militia, following the band was a battalion of soldiers from the United States military post located in this city these were followed by two com panies of Arkansas state militia.
 After the military sections followed the congressional committee in car honorary pallbearers who were on foot. Then followed the hearse with the active pallbearers walking beside it. The immediate family and friends were behind the hearse in carriages.
 It was an impressive sight to look down the line of march and see the long procession coming up the street with the soldiers keeping perfect time and moving at a slow walk. The pro cession was many blocks long and the first part had reached the church be- fore the last part was leaving the Davis home.
 When the church was reached the soldiers were lined up in ranks and stood at attention as the body of the late senator was carried into the church.
 At the entrance of the church, ex- tending from the sidewalk into the building, where many members of the Robert C. Newton Camp bugle and drum corps, who stood at attention as the people filed into the church.
 As the body was borne, into the church it was preceded by the Rev. Ben Cox, pastor of the First Baptist church, and by Dr. R. G. Bowers, presi- dent of Ouachita college, a lifelong friend of the dead statesman.
 Behind the casket came the active pallbearers, the committee from con gress, the honorary pallbearers, state officials and members of the family of the late senator. On the arm of her grandson and leaning on her cane for further support, the bent form of the senator's aged mother tottered down the aisle and sank into pew, crushed with grief The pipe organ played softly as the funeral party entered
 After the choir had sung My Faith Looks Up to Thee" Dr. Bowers read from the scriptures and offered prayer, He prayed that the grief of the family be mitigated by the assurance of a meeting after death, asked blessing uLon the national congress and upon tie people of Arkansas who were gath cred to pay a last tribute to the mem oly of the man they admired so greatly.
 NO Arkansas man who ever has died has been so sincerely mourned as our departed brother, Senator Jeff DavisJ' said the Rev. Ben Cox. He referred to the admirable qualities of the dead senator, his loyalty to his friends and devotion to his aged