Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-04-04
Five Thousand Attend Funeral
Richmond. Va Ma.

Richmond, Va, March 90.
Sympathizers Of the Aliens.
who were executed yesterday,
have begun the collection of
funds to build monuments to the
fatner and son. The money is
coming in freely, the initiative
having taken place in the Chesa-
peake & Ohio shops. 1t is ex
pected that The public will be
asked TO make small contribu-
lions in order that all may have
q hand in perpetuating the
memory of the men executed.
Mt. Airy, N. c., March 20.
The bodies of Floyd and Claude
Allen, who were electrocuted in
Richmond, yesterday, arrived
here at noon today accompanied
by Victor Allen. When the train
pulled in, fully fifteen hundred
people were at the depot. A
party of friends from Carroll
county were there, and two
double horse wagons were on
hand TO convey he bodies to the
late home of Floyd Allen, ten
miles distant.
The final chapter of the Hills
vile court house tragedy was
brought to a close Sunday after
noon when in the presence of
5000 people, the funeral services
of Floyd and Claude Allen were
held in the family burial plot
one mile from the home of Floyp
Allen, at the foot of the Blue
Ridge Mountains, near Hillsville.
In spite OF the heavy clouds
which hid the sky all day and q
slight rain which fell throughout
the afternoon people travelled
more than thirty-fve miles to
attend the dual funeral of the
men who paid the death penalty
for their part in the Hillsvillc
tragedy.
The bodies arrived at the late
home of Floyd Allen Saturday
afternoon at 6 O'clock. A short
while afterwards the cask cts
were opened and members oil
the family viewed the faces OF
their loved ones.
AS early as 8 o'clock Sunda,
morning the crowd commenced
to gather. They came in convey.
ances, astride horses. and or
foot; many came from Grayson
Wythe and Carroll counties
scores of them coming distance,
of twenty-five miles or more
By noon the crowd was enorm
Gus, and it was conservatiyely
estimated at 5000.
AT 2 o'clock the caskets wert
brought out of the home and
placed in wagons to be conveyed
to the burial place. A few
minutes later the long process.
sion started the journey to the
last resting place Of Floyd anC
Claude Allen.
The burial plot is located 4;
mile from the Allen Home in ;
cultivated field, and occupies
space on top of the ridge. A few
yards away from the buria
ground is the home of William
Jones. The baskets rested in the
yard surrounding this home
The funeral services were
then conducted by the Rev
Floyd ZenZ, and the Rev. Mr.
Monday, both primitive Baptists
Both ministers gave fve-minute
talks, but did not take any
particular text, nor did they
dwell upon the circumstances
which led to the death of the
Aliens. WY
They We're followed by the
Rev. j. Z. Smith, q Baptist mis-,
slonary, who s. o;e for ffteer
minutes.
immediately after the services
the vast crowd was permitted
to the bodies, land for one hour
the, people passed around the
caskets.
Miss Nellie Wissler, Claude s
hancee, was in attendance. and
stood at the head of the grave
throughout the services. When
the services were concluded, and
The caskets were ready to be
closed, the medal which the
women of southeast Virginia had