The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-20
FUNERAL Of JUDGE
ST|LWELL RUSSELL
BEAUTIFUL FLORAL TRIBUTES
FROM FRIENDS, STATE AND
COUNTY OFFICIALS.

This morning at $50 the remains
of Judge Stillwell H. Russell were
conveyed from the residence of
Byron Brew to the county court house
where they were permitted to lie in
state until two o'clock, when the fun
eral was conducted at the First Pres
byterian church by Rev. c. C. Weith.
The members of the Odd Fellows
lodge. OF which Judge Russell was a
member, escorted the remains to the
court house, as well as the Confeder-
ate veterans, state, county and city
officials, and the Ardmore Bar asso-
citation The floral tributes were
numerous and beautiful, coming from
all ever this and adjoining states,
where Judge Russell was known.
Among the floral tributes were those
from the supreme court, the supreme
court commission, the corporation
commission, the criminal court of ap-
peals, the Oklahoma Bar association
and the Ardmore Bar association.
The pallbearers this morning were
w. l. Cruce, w. r. Bleakmore, Sheriff
Garrett, Judge A. Eddleman, n. L.
Martin, and ]. W. Stearns.
The active pallbearers at the SER
vices this afternoon were: ]. w.
Stearns, and N, Z. Martin, from the
Odd Fellows, w. I. Cruce and w. R.
Bleakmore from the Bar association;
Judge Eddleman and Judge Hayes,
from the Marietta Bar association OF
Love county.
ernor 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
vi man.
Doyle and Armstrong. from the crimi
nal court of appeals.
The remains were taken to the
First Presbyterian church, where the
funeral service was conducted by Dr.
Weitn. The exercises at the grave
were conducted according to the rit-
ual Of the Odd Fellows, by the local
lodge assisted by c. A. Skeen, grand
master of the state, Ben F. Lafayette,
past grand master of Checotah, and
p. 3. Shearer, past grand master, from
Tishomingo and others from over
the state.
From the church a line of march
was formed to the Wilmington hotel,
where carriages awaited those who de-
sired to attend the services at the
grave.
Friends and acquaintances of Judge
Russell from all over the southwest
were here to pay last tribute to this
able jurist and just citizen. All de-
plore his taking away, realizing that
his going leaves a hard place to fill
and that the legal profession has lost
one of its most brilliant members.
Old soldiers from the Confederate
home acted as a guard of honor over
the tody, as it lay in state at the
court house, and hundreds of people
gazed for the last time upon the fea-
lures of the lamented Judge
The following is a list of those
who arrived in the city at one o'clock
to attend the funeral:
Governor Lee Cruce, Hon. w. A.
Led5etter, A. c. Cruce, Judge Hainer,
Smith c. Matson, assistant attorney
general; Justices Loufbourrow and
Riddle, of the supreme court; Mrs.
Riddle; Judge Thacker, chairman of
the supreme court commission; S O..
Dawes state librarian; Judge Turner,
associate justice; John Fields, editor
of the Oklahoma Farm Journal;
Chief Justice Kane; T. H. Sturgeon
assistant clerk of the supreme court;
Judge Armstrong, presiding judse OF
the criminal court of appeals, and
Judge S. W. Hayes