Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Moss, Albert Bartlett 1914
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Payette Enterprise, Payette, Idaho
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, March 19, 1914

Payette’s Pioneer Laid to Rest

Large Number of Citizens in Payette and from Various Parts of State Pay Last 
Tribute to Albert B. Moss.

The funeral of A. B. Moss, who passed away at St. Alphonsus hospital last 
Saturday afternoon from typhoid fever, was held at the residence in this city 
on Tuesday afternoon at two thirty.

From ten until twelve the body lay in state in the parlor of the home, the room 
being a solid embankment of beautiful floral designs from the different 
organizations, friends as well as prominent men of the state.  During the time 
the body lay in state it was viewed by a large number of those who had known 
and esteemed this man during his long residence here. 

At two thirty after a short prayer by Rev. Thomas Ashworth of St. James 
Episcopal church, and a hymn, the funeral was taken in charge by Washoe Lodge 
No. 28 A. F. & A. M. and at the cemetery the beautiful and impressive Masonic 
ceremony was observed.  Forty of the Knight Templars from Boise and Weiser 
command???? In full uniform acted as an escort.  The Odd Fellows, of which the 
deceased was an honored member attended in a body in regalia as did also the 
Order of the Eastern Star.  

J. E. Crouch, T. J. Brown, B. L. Downs, D. W. Alney, Joseph Oldham and J. S. 
Thurston acted as Masonic pallbearers.  The honorary pallbearers were Judge 
Richards, Joseph Pickham, F. R. Coffin, and J. M. Johnson, of  Boise and Henry 
Ervin and John McGlinchey, of Payette.  

The funeral was the largest Masonic ever held in Payette and was attended by 
prominent Masons and Odd Fellows from other sections of this state as well as 
from Oregon. 










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