The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-21
JUDGE RUSSELL
LAID TO REST
GREAT FUNERAL CO r T E G E
PASSED THROUGH THE CITY
STREETS YESTERDAY.

Seldom has any city honored the
memory of one of her citizens as was
Judge Russell honored by his fellow
townsmen yesterday.
From the moment his death was an
nounced Saturday morning, a gloom
seemed to settle over the city and
wherever men congregated the many
sterling traits of the noble judge were
the subjects of discussion.
Last night at Rose Hill cemetery
he slept underneath mountain of
magnificent flowers, tributes from low
ing friends from all sections of the
southwest, where he was known
Yesterday morning the remains
were conveyed from the residence Of
Byron Drew to the court house where
banked with magnificent floral pieces
they were viewed by hundreds of
people of all classes and conditions
at o'clock they were taken to the
Broadway Methodist church, on ac-
count of the Presbyterian church be-
ing too small and the funeral service
was preached by Rev. Dr. Weith of
the First Presbyterian church.
After the services at the church,
the line of march was taken up to the
cemetery, the Odd Fellows, members
of the local and visiting bar associa-
tions, and old soldiers from the Con
federate home led the procession to
the Wilmington hotel corner, where
conveyances awaited them.
At the grave a short talk was made
by C. B. Bee, step son of Judge
Russell, who paid a glowing tribute to
the deceased as father and man.
Judge w. F. Freeman delivered an
oration over the grave of the departed
Judge that was beautiful and touch
ing, after which the Odd Fellows held
their ritualistic services for the dead.
The active pallbearers were: J. w.
Stearns and ~ Z. Martin, from the
Odd Fellows, w. |. Cruce and w. r.
Bleakmore from the Bar association;
Judge Edleman and Judge Hayes,
from the Marietta Bar association of
Love county.
The honorary pail bearers were
Governor Lee Cruce and Judges Kane,
Riddle, Turner and Loufbourrow of
the supreme court; Judges Galbraith,
Thacker, Sharp, Brewer, Rittenhouse,
and Harrison, of the supreme court
commission, and Judges Furman,
Doyle and Armstrong, from the Grim
inal court of appeals.
The honorary pail bearers from the
Odd Fellows were l. r. Mason, Ben. F.
Lafayette, P. B. II. Shearer, Bates
Burnett, G. W. Bruce, and Mr.. Nor
veil.
Governor Cruce and all members of
the supreme court, the supreme court
commission, the corporation commits
sion, the criminal court of appeals,
and other citizens from Oklahoma
City, left for home last night on the
12:O7 Santa Fe, they came down in
special Pullman that was set out
here for their convenience.
The services at the church yester-
day were beautiful and impressive,
the eulogy of DR.. Weith was a fit
tribute for the noble dead, and he
recounted many instances and circum-
stances with which he alone was
familiar.
A quartette composed of Mesdames
Guillot, Kyle, Messrs. Hoffman and
Williams rendered two appropriate
numbers, and Mrs. Guillot sang Cal
vary, beautiful solo especially ap-
propriate for funeral services.
Reservations had been made for
the Oklahoma City contingent, the
members of thef state, county and
city government and the immediate
friends of the family, but the church
was entirely too small to accommo-
date all who wished to enter, and
as many heard the discourse from
without as within. Mrs. Russell and
her two sons Hamilton and c. B. Bee
have not announced their plans for the
future.