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The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
Funeral of Ex-President Tyler. --All the forenoon yesterday the rotund of the State House was crowded with citizens and strangers anxious to take a last look at the placid features of the lamented and honored dead lying within the Hall of Congress. Despite the very unfavorable weather, as the hour of twelve drew nigh, the Square was crowded. Shortly after that hour, in accordance with the announcement heretofore made, the body was borne from the Hall and deposited in the hearse, when preceded by the Public Guard, whose band meanwhile played a solemn dirge, the body, followed by President Davis, Governor Letcher, Members of Congress, the Virginia Senate, House of Delegates and citizens, was borne to Saint Paul's Church. The sermon of Bishop Johns on the occasion is one that will long be remembered by those who heard it. Appropriate allusions were made to the personal worth and virtues of the lamented dead. The impressive service of the Episcopal Church was depended in its sole
The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 15 (search)
of passing an act authorizing the county court of Green brier county to admit a will to record, upon special proof of the handwriting of an attesting witness, which was adopted. Mr. McKinney offered a resolution directing inquiry to be made into the expediency of extending the jurisdiction of Norfolk Adopted. Mr. Bales asked and obtained leave to withdraw from the files of the Senate, the bill No. 260 of the last session, for the relief of Wm. S. Martin, late sheriff of Lee county. Mr. Garnett, of Henrico, asked and obtained leave to introduce a bill for the prevention of shouting and hunting on the Sabbath, accompanied by the petition of Thomas L. Duke. Mr. Quesenberrymoved that the chair be vacated, and that the Senate attend the funeral of ex-President Tyler in a body, which was carried, and thereupon the Senate left the Hall, at one o'clock P.M. At two o'clock the President pro tem. resumed the chair of the Senate, when, upon motion, the Senate adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
House of Delegates. The House met at 12 o'clock, M. The Speaker, (Mr. Kemper,) in the Chair. The Clerk read the order of arrangements made for the funeral of the Hon. John Tyler. Mr. Collier moved that the order just read be spread upon the journal of the House, which was adopted. On motion of Mr. Collier, the House then adjourned.