(Published in The Memphis Democrat, Vol. XV, Number 29, Memphis, Texas, Thursday, January 18, 1923, Page 8)
Childress, Jan. 15 - Members of the Ku Klux Klan, wearing robes and hoods, were present at the funeral of Benton G. Smith held here this afternoon. Mr. Smith was a banker at Lelia Lake and died in Clarendon Saturday.
Funeral services were conducted by Dr. G.S. Slover, after which the Masonic fraternity held its ritualistis [sic] services. Immediately afterward 30 to 50 Klansmen, it is estimated, appeared.
Six went to the grave. One stood at the foot of the grave with an American flag and another with a large floral cross at the head. Two more Klansmen were on each side of the grave.
Attendance is said to have been one of the largest ever present at a funeral in the lower Panhandle.
Contributor: Edith Guynes Stanley (47114458) • [email protected]
Childress, Jan. 15 - Members of the Ku Klux Klan, wearing robes and hoods, were present at the funeral of Benton G. Smith held here this afternoon. Mr. Smith was a banker at Lelia Lake and died in Clarendon Saturday.
Funeral services were conducted by Dr. G.S. Slover, after which the Masonic fraternity held its ritualistis [sic] services. Immediately afterward 30 to 50 Klansmen, it is estimated, appeared.
Six went to the grave. One stood at the foot of the grave with an American flag and another with a large floral cross at the head. Two more Klansmen were on each side of the grave.
Attendance is said to have been one of the largest ever present at a funeral in the lower Panhandle.
Contributor: Edith Guynes Stanley (47114458) • [email protected]
(Published in The Memphis Democrat, Vol. XV, Number 29, Memphis, Texas, Thursday, January 18, 1923, Page 8)
Childress, Jan. 15 - Members of the Ku Klux Klan, wearing robes and hoods, were present at the funeral of Benton G. Smith held here this afternoon. Mr. Smith was a banker at Lelia Lake and died in Clarendon Saturday.
Funeral services were conducted by Dr. G.S. Slover, after which the Masonic fraternity held its ritualistis [sic] services. Immediately afterward 30 to 50 Klansmen, it is estimated, appeared.
Six went to the grave. One stood at the foot of the grave with an American flag and another with a large floral cross at the head. Two more Klansmen were on each side of the grave.
Attendance is said to have been one of the largest ever present at a funeral in the lower Panhandle.
Contributor: Edith Guynes Stanley (47114458) • [email protected]
Childress, Jan. 15 - Members of the Ku Klux Klan, wearing robes and hoods, were present at the funeral of Benton G. Smith held here this afternoon. Mr. Smith was a banker at Lelia Lake and died in Clarendon Saturday.
Funeral services were conducted by Dr. G.S. Slover, after which the Masonic fraternity held its ritualistis [sic] services. Immediately afterward 30 to 50 Klansmen, it is estimated, appeared.
Six went to the grave. One stood at the foot of the grave with an American flag and another with a large floral cross at the head. Two more Klansmen were on each side of the grave.
Attendance is said to have been one of the largest ever present at a funeral in the lower Panhandle.
Contributor: Edith Guynes Stanley (47114458) • [email protected]
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