Evening star., 1941-02-09
Officials Will Attend
Rites Tomorrow for
R. Walton Moore
Hull Says Country
Has Lost 'One Of Its
AbIest Citizens

Secretary of State Hull and Off
cials of the department will pay
tribute tomorrow to r. Walton
Moore, 81, counselor of the State
Department, who died yesterday at
his home in Fairfax, Va
Representatives of official Wash
ington will join with relatives and
old Virginia friends of Mr.. Moore
at funeral services to be held at
2 pm. at the Truro Episcopal
Church in Fairfax. The services
will be conducted by the Rev. Gray
Temple, rector, and DR.. Alexander
C. zabriskie. dean of the Virginia
Episcopal Theological Seminary
near Alexandria. Burial will be in
the Fairfax Cemetery.
Mr.. Moore died of an attack of
pneumonia when he apparently was
recovering from a previous one that
began in December. With him when
he died we're two sisters. the Misses
Margaret Lindsay and Helen Stuy-
Vestant Moore, with whom he had
lived for many years. A third sister,
Mrs. Thomas Randolph Keith, lives
in Washington.
PallbearerS at the funeral to-
morrow will be Francis P. Hitler
of the Virginia House of Delegates,
NJ. Carter Hall, Mclean, Va; James
Keith. Fairfax; N. P. Young. Fair
fax: former State Senator John w.
Rust. Fairfax, and Maj. Charles
Pozer, Fairfax.
Sorrow at Mr.. Moore's passing
was expressed by many Federal and
State officials and other friends,
among them Secretary Hull, who
said he felt he had lost "a dear
friend and the country "one OF
its ablest citizens.
Senator Glass of Virginia said he
was associated with Mr.. Moore
intimately in the Constitutional
Convention of Virginia in 1901 ana
1902. Il had known him by reputa-
ton and slight acquaintance for
several years before that" he said.
Later. of course. I was with him
in Congress. I deeply regret his
death"
In Richmond, State Senator Henry
r. Wickham, S1-year-old elder
statesman" of the Old Dominion,
said:
i am profoundly grieved by the
death OF Walton Moore. He was
a great man, a great Virginian. a
patriotic Virginian. He served his
beloved State throughout his life
with absolute devotion to it re-
gardless of other motives. His death
is a great loss to our mutually be-
loved commonwealth"
Had Long Public Career.
"Judge" Moore, as he was known
to his host of friends, interested
himself. during his long career, in
local, State and national affairs.
He was one of VirglniaS Oldest
veterans of public service. and rep
resented the Alexandria Fairfax
Prince William district in the Vlr-
ginia State Senate from 1887 to 1890
before serving in the States Consti-
tutional Convention in 1902.
He served continuously in the
House of Representatives from 1919
to 1881, and was credited with hav-
ing done much during the past
so years for the development of the
National Capital and its surround
ings. He had a large part in the
building of the Arlington Memorial,
Key and Chain Bridges across the
Potomac as well as the George
Washington Memorial highway and
the Lee highway.
His friendship with Cordell Hull
brought Judge" Moore to the
State Department in 1888 and four
Years later he was named counselor
of the State Department.
Mr.. Moore. a bachelor, lived his
entire lifetime at his ancestral home
IN Fairfax and participated actively
IN local affairs. He was a director
OF the Episcopal High School near
Alexandria. which he attended be-
fore going to the University of Vir-
ginia. and was director of the
Madeira School for Girls. He was
the senior vestryman of the Truro
Episcopal Church and took a part
in the organization of the Fairfax
Volunteer Fire Department.
He was the son of Thomas Moore,
a lawyer who served in the Mexican
War and as Confederate soldier in
the Civil War. His mother was Han
nah Morris Moore, lineal descend
ant of Lewis Morris of New York. a
signer of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence.
Hull Issues Statement.
The statement of regret issued by
Secretary Hull, who had officially
announced Mr.. Moore's death for
the State Department., was as fol-
lows:
Il make the announcement of the
death of Mr.. r. Walton Moore with
q sentiment Of deep personal sorrow.
BY his passing from this life I have
lost q dear friend and the country
has lost one of its ablest citizens,
whose long years have been spent in
faithful service to its welfare. His
interests knew no narrow bounds:
his abilities carried him to ever
wider fields of service
From State legislator he entered
upon a distinguished legal career
of national scope, followed by more
than decade of service in the House
of Representatives. The third and
final phase of his career began in
1888 when he came to the Depart
ment of State as Assistant Secretary.
AS counselor of the department
since 1887 he gave of his wisdom, his
ripe experience of four-score years,
and spent his strength in the stress
of period of gravest concern to his
country.
He Gave Himself to His Duties"
AT all times he gave himself to
the duties and obligations of his
position in the Department of State.
AS an authority on constitutional
and international law his counsel
was invaluable in such matters as
recognition and neutrality, par
ticularly the multifarious questions
connected with the latter subject.
Often called upon by his position
as counselor to meet with the rep
resentatives Of foreign governments,
he maintained the best traditions Of
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