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From: Sandi Gorin <>
Subject: [KYBARREN] JOSEPH HORACE LEWIS Part 3
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:23:16 -0500


Taken from the writings of William Daniel Tolle.

"Following Senator BLACKBURN, Rev. OVERTON read a chapter in the Bible and
after a song by the Choir the benediction was pronounced. The pallbearers
were General Fayette HEWITT, S H BUCHANNAN, John B PIRTLE, John H WHEELER,
Theo. COWHERD, Thos. A. PAGE, John H. YANCEY, Geo. PRUNTY, W. S. MARTIN,
Wm. STEENBERGEN, Sandy EDWARDS and Wm. WOOD. Among those present from a
distance were Y. C. S. BLACKBURN of Versailles former United States
Senator, Marshall James BLACKBURN of Woodford County, Maj. General Simon
Boliver BUCKNER and Mrs. BUCKNER, Dr. C H WALTON, D Y WOOD, of
Munfordville, J E LOGSDON, James BAILEY, Horse Cave, Hon. S M PAYTON of
Elizabethtown, Mr. John ROGERS of Franklin.

The floral designs were many and beautiful. The three largest being an
anchor of white carnations, a cover of white roses and ferns, and a large
wreath of white roses entwined with ivy and having the letters SCV in red
and white carnations across the center of the wreath. This was the offering
of the SONS OF THE CONVEDERATE VETERANS of this place. Among the many
grateful incidents surrounding the exercises incident to the death and
burial of General LEWIS was the meeting of the funeral train at Midway by
the aged widow of General John C BRECKINRIDE, and the action of the
Frankfort Joseph H LEWIS Chapter of the Daughters of the Confedracy in
marching to the train in a body and covering the coffin of the deceased
leader with flowers. The family and relatives of General LEWIS wree most
deeply touched by these attentions.

"At a called meeting of the JOSEPH H. LEWIS CAMP SCV, the following
resolutions were adopted: First: That in the death of Geneal Joseph H LEWIS
we mourn the loss of the noblest work of God's hand - an honest man - a man
of the strictest integrity and purest motives, whose public records was
without a spot or bleming, and his private life without a stain. Second:
That he was a commanding figure both in War and in peace, and that his
daily walk and his successes in life are an inspiration and a guidance to
the young men of our country."

to be continued tomorrow - Sandi

Colonel Sandi Gorin
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