"Imposing Ceremonies at Mesa Yesterday Morning.
The funeral of Edward Brizzee took place at Mesa at 11 o'clock yesterday. It was conducted by lodge No. 335, B.P.O.E, of Phoenix, and twenty-eight members of the order from this city were in attendance. The hearse was sent over to Mesa early in the morning, but the casket was taken over on the train by the brethren of the lodge. The service of the order was read by A.A. Long and Selim Michaelson. The funeral cortege, fully a mile and a half in length, extended from the town to the cemetery. The floral offerings were most profuse. The casket was buried beneath them and when the grave was filled it presented the appearance of a great mound of flowers. A more unanimous expression of respect and regret was never made in a community. Every business house and shop in Mesa was locked up during the progress of the funeral and even the schools were closed.
Mesa is a Mormon community and in Mormon, as in most exclusively religious communities, there is a prejudice against secret societies. At the conclusion of the ceremonies yesterday members of the church told members of the order that whatever prejudices had been entertained had vanished. Any organization, they said, calculated to promote such a fraternal feeling as had been displayed must be founded upon a good principle."
(The Arizona Republican - Mon., Jan. 21, 1895, pg. 4)
The funeral of Edward Brizzee took place at Mesa at 11 o'clock yesterday. It was conducted by lodge No. 335, B.P.O.E, of Phoenix, and twenty-eight members of the order from this city were in attendance. The hearse was sent over to Mesa early in the morning, but the casket was taken over on the train by the brethren of the lodge. The service of the order was read by A.A. Long and Selim Michaelson. The funeral cortege, fully a mile and a half in length, extended from the town to the cemetery. The floral offerings were most profuse. The casket was buried beneath them and when the grave was filled it presented the appearance of a great mound of flowers. A more unanimous expression of respect and regret was never made in a community. Every business house and shop in Mesa was locked up during the progress of the funeral and even the schools were closed.
Mesa is a Mormon community and in Mormon, as in most exclusively religious communities, there is a prejudice against secret societies. At the conclusion of the ceremonies yesterday members of the church told members of the order that whatever prejudices had been entertained had vanished. Any organization, they said, calculated to promote such a fraternal feeling as had been displayed must be founded upon a good principle."
(The Arizona Republican - Mon., Jan. 21, 1895, pg. 4)
"Imposing Ceremonies at Mesa Yesterday Morning.
The funeral of Edward Brizzee took place at Mesa at 11 o'clock yesterday. It was conducted by lodge No. 335, B.P.O.E, of Phoenix, and twenty-eight members of the order from this city were in attendance. The hearse was sent over to Mesa early in the morning, but the casket was taken over on the train by the brethren of the lodge. The service of the order was read by A.A. Long and Selim Michaelson. The funeral cortege, fully a mile and a half in length, extended from the town to the cemetery. The floral offerings were most profuse. The casket was buried beneath them and when the grave was filled it presented the appearance of a great mound of flowers. A more unanimous expression of respect and regret was never made in a community. Every business house and shop in Mesa was locked up during the progress of the funeral and even the schools were closed.
Mesa is a Mormon community and in Mormon, as in most exclusively religious communities, there is a prejudice against secret societies. At the conclusion of the ceremonies yesterday members of the church told members of the order that whatever prejudices had been entertained had vanished. Any organization, they said, calculated to promote such a fraternal feeling as had been displayed must be founded upon a good principle."
(The Arizona Republican - Mon., Jan. 21, 1895, pg. 4)
The funeral of Edward Brizzee took place at Mesa at 11 o'clock yesterday. It was conducted by lodge No. 335, B.P.O.E, of Phoenix, and twenty-eight members of the order from this city were in attendance. The hearse was sent over to Mesa early in the morning, but the casket was taken over on the train by the brethren of the lodge. The service of the order was read by A.A. Long and Selim Michaelson. The funeral cortege, fully a mile and a half in length, extended from the town to the cemetery. The floral offerings were most profuse. The casket was buried beneath them and when the grave was filled it presented the appearance of a great mound of flowers. A more unanimous expression of respect and regret was never made in a community. Every business house and shop in Mesa was locked up during the progress of the funeral and even the schools were closed.
Mesa is a Mormon community and in Mormon, as in most exclusively religious communities, there is a prejudice against secret societies. At the conclusion of the ceremonies yesterday members of the church told members of the order that whatever prejudices had been entertained had vanished. Any organization, they said, calculated to promote such a fraternal feeling as had been displayed must be founded upon a good principle."
(The Arizona Republican - Mon., Jan. 21, 1895, pg. 4)
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