Jerauld County, SD News.....Memorial Service August 14, 1885
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Wessington Springs Herald
    The memorial services at the church last Saturday were attended by a large
number of our citizens who were desirous of thus testifying their admiration for
the hero of Appomatox whose name will go down in history coupled with that of
Lincoln. The churchhad beem tastily draped by a committee of the Woman's Relief
Corps, a large portrait of General Grant hanging high above the pulpit, the
altar being filled with flowers. Shortly after the hour appointed, E. O. C. Ord
Post No. 29, G. A. R., followed by the Band of Hope marched to the church, after
prayer by Chaplain Primmer the choir sang "He's Gone." Then followed the
beautiful burial service of the G. A. R., at the conclusion of which after
prayer by Rev. J. W. P. Jordan, the choir sang "Sleep, Comrade, Sleep." Rev. S.
F. Huntley was then introduced and opened the exercises by reading the 139th
Psalm, followed by prayer and the singing by the choir of "Farewell Father,
Friend and Guardian." Mr. Huntley took as a text Hebrews 11:4 and preached a
most excellent sermon, prominent in which was the sentiment, that Gen. Grant,
though dead, yet speaketh. At the afternoon exercises Mrs. Dr. Hall read an
eloquent essay on the life of the dead hero. She was followed by remarks by R.
Y. Hazard, J. E. McNamara, D. Mitchell and J. R. Eddy, each testifying to the
greatness of the man whose life had been given to his country and whose death
had brought a nation to forget its past differences and bow in sorrow around his
bier. Words of ours cannot add brilliance to the chaplet that from henceforth
will crown the name of him who was of the people, who labored for the people and
whose fitting monument will ever be a nations's grateful remembrance.



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