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The remains of Dr. James R.
CROCKETT were brought through town on yesterday for burial at the old home in Burkes Garden. The funeral and burial takes place this morning at 11AM. Rev. H.M.
FUGATE, formerly pastor here and in Burke's Garden, conducted the service, assisted by Rev. Mr.
PATTY of the Methodist church, and Rev. Mr. SCHAEFFER, of the Lutheran Church.
Dr. CROCKETT took his father, Mr. James CROCKETT to John's Hopkins some weeks ago for special treatment and while there was taken ill himself, and later underwent a surgical operation for a serious stomach trouble Pneumonia set up, and the faithful physician, who had been the instrument of healing so many people, was cut down. His brother, Dr. M.B.
CROCKETT, of this town, and his wife, were with him in the last, the former having remained with him during almost his entire illness.
Dr. James R. CROCKETT was born in Burke's Garden. His father and mother, James R. and Mrs. Sallie
CROCKETT, John, William and Dr. M.B. CROCKETT, brothers, and Mrs. Simon
KELLY and Mrs. Mattie WHITE, sisters, still survive, besides a wife and four children. He was a graduate of the
University of Maryland, and was 44 years of age. His life as a physician was spent in Burkes Garden, where he was born and reared. It cannot be said that as a physician he was without honor in his own country and among his own kin. He was popular with all masses. His neighbors knew him and respected him as a man of strong Christian character, deep piety and conscientious and faithful as a physician. His place will be difficult to fill. His last hours were peaceful, conscious and resigned. He knew his end was nigh, and talked calmly and freely with his distressed wife, telling her repeatedly that he was not afraid to die, and that all was well with him. His last thoughts were about his children and the young Baptist church in his neighborhood, which he was instrumental in building and organizing and to which he was devoted. He was superintendent of the Sunday School there and the chief support of the church, and his death was a severe blow to the cause. Though his duties as the only physician in his community were exacting, night and day, he found time to devote to his church duties. His faith and consecration in life stood him well in the last and trying hour, an hour which, sooner or later, will try us all.
Party which left here on yesterday afternoon, with the body of Dr. CROCKETT was: Dr. Melvin
CROCKETT and John CROCKETT and wife, E.H. WHITE and wife, S. Frazier
STOWERS and Fay LAWSON, from Bluefield, Mr. and Mrs. Robert TARTER and others, besides several people who came over from Burkes Garden with carriages and buggies. Before leaving, the casket was opened in the parlor of the Jeffersonville hotel, and a large number of people looked for the last time on earth into the face of the physician and friend, so familiar in life. The face was strikingly life like - as natural as if only asleep. The body was embalmed in Baltimore, and was in preservation and entirely life like when it reached Tazewell. Rev. Mr.
FUGATE, former pastor of Baptist church here, reached Tazewell on the 8:30 train and was taken immediately to the Garden, where he will preach the funeral sermon today at 10 o'clock.
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