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redIud.TUPSDrily be ixpori-ssacs,scrnbloI by Dr,talu issts aro Iju first Cneflt» known , says:TVOUS-lalioo; I usad ocora-iC localin Dr.I oC aa. and . nor Miles* which ooughSounded for Two Soldier Heroes Sunday Afternoon.Impressive Ceremonies for ElbertPatterson and Daniel Dodge.Bigelow Church Crowded With Sympathizing FriendsOf the Dead Boys and It Was the Sad. deat. Yet Most Impressive Service Ever Held in Portsmouth.thoibadourhazsmar of tButeartful :TinamwaxdunsaiclifeanctlovwhiRcibv'ionvvbof era tm a pAll Portsmouth was in niourufn* Sunday for tlic young lives that hadbeen offered up in distant Porto Rico for their country’s cause, anti their funeral services were made the occasion for a demonstration such as never before had been seen in Portsmouth.lucre was something of pathos and sadness in the death or these boys in a foreign land that appealed dircctlvto the hearts and the sympathies ofeveryone here iu this city which they called Home,” and an immense concourse of sorrowing people gathered to pay the last tribute of respect that mao can pay to man.In all that immense crowd which gathered in and about ttie Bigelow church there were few, ir any, present irom mere vulgar curiosity. The great majority were filled with a deep realization of the sadness of the occasion, which found expression inmnillit/) n/vlin ..-i— .1 . 1wa N n win SbisunIlk.“5evlt;peilie.stocr'oranInsc;ii\muffled sobs and wet eyes, as the ser- ifi\»1 OOQ n»n^nnni^-l A 1 a , . I LUwicJrOhre]anrutovices progressed. Altogether it was.he saddest and yet the most impressive funeral service held in Ports mouth for a generation.The two soldier boys—Elbert L. lattorson and Daniel Dodge—who had been comrades In life, remained comrades in death, as one of the n rspeakers aptly expressed it, and themservices were held lor both, althouob hr the body of but one -that of Elbert K 1 utters on — was brought to thechurch. The services were to bc»inat Bigelow church at 2 o'clock, but lung before that hour the immense Church was packed, while crowds inert the sidewalks. A few minutes before two o’clock the members of Dailey Post, G. A. B,, veterans themselves of a bloody war, former members of Company II and members of the Portsmouth schools. |0 headed by the Biver Cit-v hand, i, marched to the Patterson residence, at Sixth and Washington streets, and escorted the remains of Elbert L. Patterson to Bigelow church, a de; tail of soldiers, consisting of Cant R. S. Prichard, Lieut. Klnncv Funk Privates John Youngman, FrankKwt fails L-t TiVI u r»- • ----cfiaLI;ir
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Portsmouth Daily Times
Portsmouth, Ohio, US
Mon, Oct 31, 1898
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