When the procession reached the cemetery it was found
that a large number had preceded the cortege to the
grave, many vehicles and persons on foot being in waiting. A
large number went on the cars, three cars leaving the home.

The services at the grave consisted of an address by
Mr. J. D. Shaw, friend of the deceased. He said:

"My friends and friends of W. C. Brann: I come this
evening at the request of Mr. Brann's family to lay
tribute upon his grave. I speak as a friend living for a
friend dead. No ordinary man has fallen in the person
of W. C. Brann. Nature fashioned him to be a power
among his fellow men. By industry, by hard study, by
careful observation, by diligent research, by interminable
effort, he rose from comparative obscurity to teach and
impress the civilized world. In the person of W. C.
Brann we have an illustration of what may be expected
in a country like ours. He was a natural product of our
American democracy. He was a star that rose by dint
of his own effort, his own determination, surrounded by
circumstances that invited merit from the common people,
from the whole people. W. C. Brann was a cosmopolitan
character. He could never be confined within the
limits of a party or a creed. So great was his grasp,
so far-reaching his thought, that he lived in the world
and not in a mere party. He was found always with
that party or with that sect that represented what he
thought to be right and true. A peculiarity of this man
was his dual personality. Few people fully understood