Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Tazewell, Littleton Waller  May 7, 1860
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Norfolk Argus May 8, 1860
THE FUNERAL OF MR. TAZEWELL.
 
     THE funeral obsequies of Mr. Tazewell, yesterday, were
solemn and impressive.  An appropriate address was delivered
by Rev. Mr. Rodman, of Christ church, and a large  concourse
of persons  followed the remains from the family mansion on
Granby street to the wharf, whence they were taken to the
Eastern Shore for interment. . . . [From the NORFOLK ARGUS,
May 8, 1860.]
 
     To state more particularly the details of the funeral,
for future  reference--the  religious services were held at
the family residence on Granby street, and a large number of
our most respectable citizens were present on the occasion.
Among them were three of our adopted fellow-citizens, who
had been on terms of friendly intercourse with the deceased
for nearly sixty years, and who walked from their respective
abodes in  the  city  to pay the last act of respect to his
Memory.  The eldest of these venerable men, George McIntosh,
Esq., was in his ninety-second year, and the others, William
H. Thomson, Esq., and John Southgate, Esq., were over eighty
years.  When the religious services were ended, a procession
was formed, and the  hearse  was  escorted  to  the  steamer
Northampton, Captain McCarrick, and the coffin was placed on
board.
     The steamer then left for the county of Northampton,
across the bay of Chesapeake, having on board the  Rev.  Mr.
Rodman and the Rev.  Dr. Okeson, of the Episcopal Church.
John N. Tazewell, Esq., the only surviving son of the
deceased,  three  of the daughters of Mr. Tazewell, a number
of his grandchildren, the bar of Norfolk and  its  vicinity,
and  many  of  our  most  venerable  fellow  citizens.  From
accident, the steamer did not reach the landing-place on the
opposite shore  till  nearly  dusk, and when the corpse was
taken on shore the night had gathered  in,  and  the  burial
service was read by candle-light.  The last scene was one of
deep and impressive solemnity.
     The vault, which was made only large enough to receive
the coffin, was composed of solid slabs of granite united by
hydraulic cement,  five  feet  below  the  surface, and was
covered by another slab of granite.    The vault was then
covered with  earth, and was ready to receive the monument,
which is soon to be erected.   The grave was in an enclosure
bounded by  iron  rails,  and  containing the tombs of Mrs.
Tazewell, the wife of the deceased, of Henry Tazewell, Esq.,
his  eldest son, and of Littleton Waller Tazewell, Esq., his
youngest son.  The burial-ground is on the estate of King’s
Creek, which was given by the deceased to his son, John N.
Tazewell, Esq., who still owns it, and which holds the
remains of a number of the ancestors of Mrs. Tazewell--this
last circumstance having led to its selection as a place  of
sepulcher for the family.
     It was the public wish that the body of Mr.  Tazewell
should be  deposited  in one of the beautiful cemeteries of
Norfolk, a city with which his name had been so long
connected,  and  where the stranger would naturally seek his
grave, and, I may add, where the lesson of such a  pure  and
illustrious life might be read in the course of the year by
thousands   of   his   countrymen;   but   the    particular
circumstances of the case rendered the scheme impracticable.
I must, however, still indulge the hope that, hereafter,
when the  insecurity  of  graves  on  private  estates,  so
signally represented by our Virginia  experience,  is  fully
considered,  the  descendants  of  this great man may in due
time consent to the removal of his remains and those of  the
family to some more accessible and less exposed situation.



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