Son Of Jasper Newton Hawse And
Mary A Beery
Harrisonburg Rockingham Register
May 20, 1898
BROUGHT HOME DEAD.
Young Alpheus Hawse Asphyxiated Friday Night in a Norfolk Hotel.
Of the niney-nine young men who left Harrisonburg for Richmond last Thursday
morning as members of Company C to enlist in the military service of the
country, none answered more promptly at roll-call, and none shouldered a musket
more cheerfully than Alpheus B.
Hawse. The buoyancy of youth marked his every movement, and as the boys stood at
"Company front," his face shone with military ardor.
Tuesday morning he returned a corpse, and hundreds of people who had accompanied
him and his comrades, to the train that carried them away, followed his remains
to their last resting place in Woodbine
Cemetery.
A telegram from Norfolk addressed to the Mayor of Harrisonburg last Saturday
afternoon brought the shocking intelligence that young Alpheus Hawse was lying
critically ill in that city, and asked that his relatives be notified.
The message was promptly delivered to Mr. Jasper Hawse, the young man's father,
who at once drove to Staunton and there took the midnight train for Norfolk. He
arrived there about noon Sunday and
found his son in St. Vincent Hospital, provided with the best medical skill and
nursing, but in a condition that was hopeless. He lingered in a state of
unconsciousness until Sunday night, dying an hour or two before midnight.
After reaching Richmond with the Guards last Thursday night young
Hawse, according to previous agreement with Capt. Sullivan, was granted a
furlough to go to Norfolk to stand an examination for the navy. After filing his
application to enlist at the recruiting
ship Franklin he proceeeded to the Mansion House Friday evening and took a room
for the night. He retired at 9 o'clock and at 5 o'clock next morning escaping
gas was located in his room and he was discovered in a state of asphyxia from
gas poison. There was a small
flow of gas escaping from the burner, which was attributed to a defective
fixture or an accidental release of the cutoff after the light had been turned
out.
The room was a very small one, and tightly closed, from which fact it is not
thought likely that the gas had been blown out. If that had been done, the
physicians stated, no human being could have lived three hours in the room. As a
matter of fact the young
man was exposed to the poison for nearly nine hours and lived nearly a day and a
half after his condition was discovered.
During the day he was removed to St. Vincent's Hospital and there had the
services of several of the leading physians of the city and the unremitting care
of the Sisters in charge.
Mr. Hawse arrived here with the remains by the early train Tuesday morning.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church Tuesday afternoon, in charge
of Revs. J . H. Waugh and A. S. Hammack. The funeral was one of the largest ever
seen in the town. Most of the stores were closed and the church was packed with
a congregation that was deeply impressed with the sadness of the occasion.
Deceased had just completed his 20th year. He was a young man of well developed
physique and exemplary character.
From the time of his enlistment with the Guards, several months ago,
he was recognized as one of the best and most promising of the recruits. He was
popular with his teachers and fellow pupils
in the High School, and was in all respects a type of brave, obedient, and
promising young manhood.
For several years he had been a member of the Methodist church.
Though not killed in battle, his death was so nearly associated with the war
that the funeral in many respects resembled those which only too frequently
occur in times like these, and it recalled many a
sad occasion during the last war, when our people were assembled to pay a last
tribute to the brave boys who fell in defence of home and country.
Mary A Beery
Harrisonburg Rockingham Register
May 20, 1898
BROUGHT HOME DEAD.
Young Alpheus Hawse Asphyxiated Friday Night in a Norfolk Hotel.
Of the niney-nine young men who left Harrisonburg for Richmond last Thursday
morning as members of Company C to enlist in the military service of the
country, none answered more promptly at roll-call, and none shouldered a musket
more cheerfully than Alpheus B.
Hawse. The buoyancy of youth marked his every movement, and as the boys stood at
"Company front," his face shone with military ardor.
Tuesday morning he returned a corpse, and hundreds of people who had accompanied
him and his comrades, to the train that carried them away, followed his remains
to their last resting place in Woodbine
Cemetery.
A telegram from Norfolk addressed to the Mayor of Harrisonburg last Saturday
afternoon brought the shocking intelligence that young Alpheus Hawse was lying
critically ill in that city, and asked that his relatives be notified.
The message was promptly delivered to Mr. Jasper Hawse, the young man's father,
who at once drove to Staunton and there took the midnight train for Norfolk. He
arrived there about noon Sunday and
found his son in St. Vincent Hospital, provided with the best medical skill and
nursing, but in a condition that was hopeless. He lingered in a state of
unconsciousness until Sunday night, dying an hour or two before midnight.
After reaching Richmond with the Guards last Thursday night young
Hawse, according to previous agreement with Capt. Sullivan, was granted a
furlough to go to Norfolk to stand an examination for the navy. After filing his
application to enlist at the recruiting
ship Franklin he proceeeded to the Mansion House Friday evening and took a room
for the night. He retired at 9 o'clock and at 5 o'clock next morning escaping
gas was located in his room and he was discovered in a state of asphyxia from
gas poison. There was a small
flow of gas escaping from the burner, which was attributed to a defective
fixture or an accidental release of the cutoff after the light had been turned
out.
The room was a very small one, and tightly closed, from which fact it is not
thought likely that the gas had been blown out. If that had been done, the
physicians stated, no human being could have lived three hours in the room. As a
matter of fact the young
man was exposed to the poison for nearly nine hours and lived nearly a day and a
half after his condition was discovered.
During the day he was removed to St. Vincent's Hospital and there had the
services of several of the leading physians of the city and the unremitting care
of the Sisters in charge.
Mr. Hawse arrived here with the remains by the early train Tuesday morning.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church Tuesday afternoon, in charge
of Revs. J . H. Waugh and A. S. Hammack. The funeral was one of the largest ever
seen in the town. Most of the stores were closed and the church was packed with
a congregation that was deeply impressed with the sadness of the occasion.
Deceased had just completed his 20th year. He was a young man of well developed
physique and exemplary character.
From the time of his enlistment with the Guards, several months ago,
he was recognized as one of the best and most promising of the recruits. He was
popular with his teachers and fellow pupils
in the High School, and was in all respects a type of brave, obedient, and
promising young manhood.
For several years he had been a member of the Methodist church.
Though not killed in battle, his death was so nearly associated with the war
that the funeral in many respects resembled those which only too frequently
occur in times like these, and it recalled many a
sad occasion during the last war, when our people were assembled to pay a last
tribute to the brave boys who fell in defence of home and country.
Son Of Jasper Newton Hawse And
Mary A Beery
Harrisonburg Rockingham Register
May 20, 1898
BROUGHT HOME DEAD.
Young Alpheus Hawse Asphyxiated Friday Night in a Norfolk Hotel.
Of the niney-nine young men who left Harrisonburg for Richmond last Thursday
morning as members of Company C to enlist in the military service of the
country, none answered more promptly at roll-call, and none shouldered a musket
more cheerfully than Alpheus B.
Hawse. The buoyancy of youth marked his every movement, and as the boys stood at
"Company front," his face shone with military ardor.
Tuesday morning he returned a corpse, and hundreds of people who had accompanied
him and his comrades, to the train that carried them away, followed his remains
to their last resting place in Woodbine
Cemetery.
A telegram from Norfolk addressed to the Mayor of Harrisonburg last Saturday
afternoon brought the shocking intelligence that young Alpheus Hawse was lying
critically ill in that city, and asked that his relatives be notified.
The message was promptly delivered to Mr. Jasper Hawse, the young man's father,
who at once drove to Staunton and there took the midnight train for Norfolk. He
arrived there about noon Sunday and
found his son in St. Vincent Hospital, provided with the best medical skill and
nursing, but in a condition that was hopeless. He lingered in a state of
unconsciousness until Sunday night, dying an hour or two before midnight.
After reaching Richmond with the Guards last Thursday night young
Hawse, according to previous agreement with Capt. Sullivan, was granted a
furlough to go to Norfolk to stand an examination for the navy. After filing his
application to enlist at the recruiting
ship Franklin he proceeeded to the Mansion House Friday evening and took a room
for the night. He retired at 9 o'clock and at 5 o'clock next morning escaping
gas was located in his room and he was discovered in a state of asphyxia from
gas poison. There was a small
flow of gas escaping from the burner, which was attributed to a defective
fixture or an accidental release of the cutoff after the light had been turned
out.
The room was a very small one, and tightly closed, from which fact it is not
thought likely that the gas had been blown out. If that had been done, the
physicians stated, no human being could have lived three hours in the room. As a
matter of fact the young
man was exposed to the poison for nearly nine hours and lived nearly a day and a
half after his condition was discovered.
During the day he was removed to St. Vincent's Hospital and there had the
services of several of the leading physians of the city and the unremitting care
of the Sisters in charge.
Mr. Hawse arrived here with the remains by the early train Tuesday morning.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church Tuesday afternoon, in charge
of Revs. J . H. Waugh and A. S. Hammack. The funeral was one of the largest ever
seen in the town. Most of the stores were closed and the church was packed with
a congregation that was deeply impressed with the sadness of the occasion.
Deceased had just completed his 20th year. He was a young man of well developed
physique and exemplary character.
From the time of his enlistment with the Guards, several months ago,
he was recognized as one of the best and most promising of the recruits. He was
popular with his teachers and fellow pupils
in the High School, and was in all respects a type of brave, obedient, and
promising young manhood.
For several years he had been a member of the Methodist church.
Though not killed in battle, his death was so nearly associated with the war
that the funeral in many respects resembled those which only too frequently
occur in times like these, and it recalled many a
sad occasion during the last war, when our people were assembled to pay a last
tribute to the brave boys who fell in defence of home and country.
Mary A Beery
Harrisonburg Rockingham Register
May 20, 1898
BROUGHT HOME DEAD.
Young Alpheus Hawse Asphyxiated Friday Night in a Norfolk Hotel.
Of the niney-nine young men who left Harrisonburg for Richmond last Thursday
morning as members of Company C to enlist in the military service of the
country, none answered more promptly at roll-call, and none shouldered a musket
more cheerfully than Alpheus B.
Hawse. The buoyancy of youth marked his every movement, and as the boys stood at
"Company front," his face shone with military ardor.
Tuesday morning he returned a corpse, and hundreds of people who had accompanied
him and his comrades, to the train that carried them away, followed his remains
to their last resting place in Woodbine
Cemetery.
A telegram from Norfolk addressed to the Mayor of Harrisonburg last Saturday
afternoon brought the shocking intelligence that young Alpheus Hawse was lying
critically ill in that city, and asked that his relatives be notified.
The message was promptly delivered to Mr. Jasper Hawse, the young man's father,
who at once drove to Staunton and there took the midnight train for Norfolk. He
arrived there about noon Sunday and
found his son in St. Vincent Hospital, provided with the best medical skill and
nursing, but in a condition that was hopeless. He lingered in a state of
unconsciousness until Sunday night, dying an hour or two before midnight.
After reaching Richmond with the Guards last Thursday night young
Hawse, according to previous agreement with Capt. Sullivan, was granted a
furlough to go to Norfolk to stand an examination for the navy. After filing his
application to enlist at the recruiting
ship Franklin he proceeeded to the Mansion House Friday evening and took a room
for the night. He retired at 9 o'clock and at 5 o'clock next morning escaping
gas was located in his room and he was discovered in a state of asphyxia from
gas poison. There was a small
flow of gas escaping from the burner, which was attributed to a defective
fixture or an accidental release of the cutoff after the light had been turned
out.
The room was a very small one, and tightly closed, from which fact it is not
thought likely that the gas had been blown out. If that had been done, the
physicians stated, no human being could have lived three hours in the room. As a
matter of fact the young
man was exposed to the poison for nearly nine hours and lived nearly a day and a
half after his condition was discovered.
During the day he was removed to St. Vincent's Hospital and there had the
services of several of the leading physians of the city and the unremitting care
of the Sisters in charge.
Mr. Hawse arrived here with the remains by the early train Tuesday morning.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church Tuesday afternoon, in charge
of Revs. J . H. Waugh and A. S. Hammack. The funeral was one of the largest ever
seen in the town. Most of the stores were closed and the church was packed with
a congregation that was deeply impressed with the sadness of the occasion.
Deceased had just completed his 20th year. He was a young man of well developed
physique and exemplary character.
From the time of his enlistment with the Guards, several months ago,
he was recognized as one of the best and most promising of the recruits. He was
popular with his teachers and fellow pupils
in the High School, and was in all respects a type of brave, obedient, and
promising young manhood.
For several years he had been a member of the Methodist church.
Though not killed in battle, his death was so nearly associated with the war
that the funeral in many respects resembled those which only too frequently
occur in times like these, and it recalled many a
sad occasion during the last war, when our people were assembled to pay a last
tribute to the brave boys who fell in defence of home and country.
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