Joel Spring - Father of Hugo - Obit

LAID TO REST - Remains of Joel Spring Interred in Spring Chapel Cemetery
MULTITUDE IN ATTENDANCE
The Hugo Husonian February 27, 1908 - transcribed by Ron Henson

    Impressive Services at the Home -- Arrangements Elaborate and Befitting the Respect Due a Useful and Beloved Citizen.
    Joel Spring was laid to rest in the family lot in the Springs Chapel cemetery Sunday afternoon after an impressive funeral service conducted at the home by Re. J.P. Gibbon one of the pioneer missionaries of this section. The interment was witnessed by one of the largest concourse of people ever assembled in this vicinity and silently but eloquently significant of the high esteem in which the deceased was held by all who knew him and was a fitting tribute to useful and universally beloved citizen.
    The funeral arrangements were under the charge of the undertaking department of the Hugo Furniture Company. The remains were thoroughly embalmed and were enclosed in a cedar shell, copper metallic casket, identical in every respect to the one in which President McKinley was buried in 1901.
    The pall bearers were J.W. Davis, J.H. Jackson, J.S. Hastings, C.G. Shull, Lee Ratliff, T.E. Sanguin, T.E. Griggs [unreadable to end of paragraph]
    At the cemetery the remains were viewed for the last time by the hundreds who had know [sic] him in life and who had congregated to honor his memory, and who felt in their sorrow that a true friend had departed and that the country had suffered an irreparable loss.
    The entire family were present two sons, Henry and Dude, having been called home from school in Illinois and arrived here two or three days previous to the father's death.
    The remains were deposited in a vault lined with brick and cement and which is impervious to dampness or other destroying agencies.