Tuesday evening 17th

Dear Sister & Bro

I will now try to write you some more as I said I would in the letter I wrote this morning for I feele that if I was in your place & you in mine I know that i would thank you to do the same for me. Oh Hellen we laid Poor Father at Rest by the side of Ma about 4 0 clock this evening. Oh Hellen he looked Just as Natuaral as you ever saw him in your life. his face was not one bit frail & he looked as though he was sleeping. he looked so natural that I feared he might not be dead & I had the doctor examine him again in his coffin just befor we left the house. he said he most assuradly was dead. it must have been that god preserved his looks for us. so sweete. so mild. so life like.

They left the house at 2 o clock for the school house. the sermon at the grave we deliverd & conducted by the Alliance. so many alliance men took a part. they formed in line 2 & 2 at the house. each wairing a black rose with a sprig of evergreen pinned over the hart and marched ahead of the coffin to the S. House. then stood in line on each side of the doors in line & then the pall barrers with the reamanes passed between into the house. they opened the servises by singing "Take the Name of Jesus With You". one of the songs he sang last sunday morning. the text was the 20 chapter of Acts & 24 verse you can find it in the Bible. such an affective sermon I never herd in my life. he reviewd fathers life & compaird it with the text. after the sermon they sang “Will Jesus Find Us Watching". the last song he ever sang. Oh there wer many eyes wet with tears as they commenced to sing for they all knew the first verse of that piece was his last song & words on earth. After taking leave they formed in line and marched out of the hous & to the graveyard where after the coffin was put down. the members of the Order marched & countermarched back by the grave. a line pasing on either side & each member as they pased by tooke the sprig of evergreene from the rosett he wore & draped it in on the coffin. then they counter marched again and formed in line again. then the chaplain of the Order went through the cerimonia and then the members altonate with the chaplain. Oh it was so sollam.

Late can tell you when he comes more fully than I can. he will fetch you the reath they put on the coffin. they also had a little sheaf of wheat with it. The Prosecian was a quarter of a mile long & the school house was over full. Hellen I cannot tell you how I feele tonight & hellen I know that there is not one that Imagine your feeling. how thankfull you must feele that you came just as you did to see him. little did you think it would be the last time. but Hellen he is better off than any of us. he is where he has said he was almost anxious to be. but Oh it is so hard to part with him for ever. to think we shall never see him again on earth. but we can go to him. he will be watching & waiting for us. let us so live that whither it be sooner or late we will all make an unbroken familey in Heaven.

Pleas excuse this Paper as we have run ashoar of writing paper & now Dear Sister Pleas write some. I cannot write any more. As ever our Bro Lester. Good By