The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-08-27

Black, former member Of Congress
and the President of the Augusta
Bar Association. Major Black gra-
ciously accepted an invitation to be
present at the funeral services and
delivered a short eulogy which
brought tears to white and black
alike.
Major William P. White and all the
members of city Council we're pres
ent at the services, not by accident
but by deliberate choice and by
formal resolution unanimously adopt
ed at. the regular monthly meeting
Of City Council. In addition to the
Mayor and Council, the Commission
er Of Public Work. the City Assessor,
the City Comptroller, the City Attor-
ney, the president and members of
the Civil Service Commission, the
Chief of Police, the Clerk of Council,
and several other city officials were
present. Many Of the officials Of the
county were also present In addi-
ton to. these white citizens, there
were perhaps a hundred others of
both sexes. representing the brain
and wealth and the very cream of
the commercial and social alike OF
white Augusta, were also present.
These together with the thousands
of Colored people present from all
parts Of the country made c. t.
Walkers body laid in state in the
undertaking parlors of f. NJ. Dugas
and Son, and John F. Dugas, the
Junior member of the firm stated that
at the lowest calculation between
eight and nine thousand people pass
ed through his place-white and
black-in order to have last look
at DR.. Walker.
DR.. John w. Whitehead, pastor of
Antioch Baptist Church and chair
man of the executive board of the
Walker Baptist Association delivered
the first eulogy in connection with
the services. He was associated With
DR.. Walker in all his labors in Au-
gusta, and was his personal and "
innate friend and co-adiutor in every
thing to which DR.. Walker turned
his hands
DR.. Walker did more to keep Au-
gusta before the eyes of the world
than any other single inhabitant of
our town during the past quarter
of century. And not only so, but
DR.. Walker had caused hundreds and
hundreds of the biggest and best
white people of this country to come
to Augusta-just to see him and
hear him preach and see the great
church he had erected.
DR.. Walker had done more, DR..
Whitehead continued, to keep peace
between the races than any other
citizen of Augusta. The pleasant de-
gree of harmony and understanding
among the white people and the black
people was due very largely to DR..
Walkers sane teaching and leader
ship. OF course, the Colored people
criticised him and (said DR.. White
head If we could open the casket
and see DR.. Walkers heart this af-
ternoon we would not find single
speck on his heart that had been
made to bleed because so many
of his people unjustly criticised and
condemned him while, at the same
time, he was working for them to
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Major Black followed DR.. White
head and delivered a ten minute
eulogy on his life and work.
More than $500 people packed the
church for the services. When the
procession left the great auditorium.
it was seen that the crowd on the
outside was larger than the crowd
inside the house. Ropes had been
stretched and the policemen had kept
big open space so that the pro-
gress Of the long line might not be
impeded
DR.. Walkers grave was covered
with the floral tributes, which stood
out like a battlement All around
the grave, a committee of church wo-
men having arranged them. 1t was
a hill of beauty there under the
trees between the engine house and
Tabernacle church. Taps were sound
ed and the great concourse of peo-
dispersed?
The signal honors and attention
paid to his memory by the city and
county officials indicate that a life
of service and usefulness pays. He
left wife and a granddaughter
and Observation-Disclosures to mourn
his departure. as well as hundreds
of other blood relatives. His church
will miss him; race will miss him:
Augusta will miss him; his loss was
a loss to the world.