Richmond, VA - Gen. Alonzo L. Phillips - Obituary, 1909

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MILITARY BURIAL FOR GEN. PHILLIPS        From a Richmond Newspaper
Autumn 1909

Blues and Howitzers Ordered Out
with Band-Services at Grove Avenue Baptist

General Alonzo L. Phillips will be buried this afternoon with full military
honors, the
Richmond Light Infantry Blues and the Richmond Howitzers having been ordered
out
in full dress uniform to escort the body to Hollywood (Cemetery), where the
Howitzers
will fire a salute of eleven guns, the mark of respect to a brigadier-general.
The services
will be conducted at Grove Avenue Church, where General Phillips was a deacon
for
twelve years, at 3:30 o'clock. The Howitzers have been ordered to report at
the armory
at 1:15 o'clock. The Blues are ordered to report at 1:30. The Blues' Band will
lead the
procession.
	The active pall-bearers will be: F.H. Rousseau, D.F. Craddock, Isaac Diggs,
Charles E. Boiling, Barton H. Grundy, H. M. Aliport. Albert Hill and R.W.
Jones.
	 Honorary pall-bearers have been selected as follows: Mayor D.C. Richardson, 
Judge George L. Christian, Colonel W. Miles Cary, James N. Boyd, T.H. Ellett, 
H.R. Pollard, Major Sol. Cutchins, B.A. Jacob, Colonel John S. Harwood,  John
S.
Ellett, Colonel Joseph V. Bidgood,  and James R. Gordon.
	President L.L. Livesay, of the Virginia Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution, has designated the following members of that organization to
attend the
funeral: Dr. C.W.P. Brock, R.A. Brock, Arthur Bell Clarke, Captain John Arthur
Coke,
George E. Crawford, Rolfe E. Glover, Edward Carrington Mayo and J. Stanton
Moore.
	General Phillips was for a number of years a member of the board of visitors
 of Lee Camp Soldiers Home, and that body will meet at the church this
afternoon at the
funeral hour to attend the services.
	R.E.Lee Camp of Confederate Veterans will be represented by a detail of
members, who will meet at their hall at 2:15 o'clock. The detail is composed
of E.J.
Bosher, James T. Gray, Joseph W. Thomas, A.O. Jones, O.B. Morgan, D.A. Brown,
General Charles J. Anderson and Colonel John Murphy.