Know this Dead Guy? Win This Photo.
Following in the footsteps of the last photo giveaway is tough, but at least this one is a really great photo with some nice detail of old store fronts.
First person to comment whose funeral procession this was AND the correct year of the procession wins a mounted print of the photo.
Image courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives, mounted photo courtesy of the Raleigh City Museum
Please do not answer if you have won one of these before.
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JohnnyProvolone
06/01 01:12 PM
Worth Bagley—1898
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Harry Seaward
06/01 01:44 PM
Sir Walter Raleigh - 1985
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insaniti66
06/01 01:47 PM
Jefferson Davis - 1893
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Alex S.
06/01 02:50 PM
Gov. Daniel Fowler 1891
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Adam
06/01 03:13 PM
Andrew Johnson 1875
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Margaret Williams
06/01 04:21 PM
President Zachary Taylor, 1850
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Margaret Williams
06/01 04:21 PM
Pres. Zachary Taylor, 1850
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Greg
06/01 04:28 PM
President Abraham Lincoln, 1865
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kg
06/01 04:38 PM
jd - 1893
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Ruester
06/01 04:46 PM
William Woods Holden 1892
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CR
06/01 04:53 PM
Gary Coleman - 2010
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shooting star
06/01 05:00 PM
The coffin would be shorter.
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Mark Rushing
06/01 05:12 PM
Jefferson Davis 1889
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ncmyk
06/01 05:17 PM
zebulon baird vance - 1894
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Daniel
06/01 05:55 PM
Charles Brantley Aycock - 1912
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Ruester
06/01 06:00 PM
Romulus Mitchell Saunders 1867
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Shawn
06/01 06:18 PM
Where is that “enhance” button they use in all the movies?
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MLB
06/01 06:51 PM
Robert Fredrick Hoke, 1912
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katb
06/01 07:59 PM
John Haywood. 1827.
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Robert
06/02 09:19 AM
President Andrew Johnson’s father
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Robert
06/02 09:21 AM
President Andrew Johnson’s father - sometime in the late 1800s
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Ruester
06/02 09:28 AM
Robert Franklin Armfield, 1898
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Ladye Jane
06/02 10:14 AM
You win, insaniti66! In 1893, a funeral procession for Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy during the Civil War, took place down Fayetteville Street. Davis actually died in New Orleans in 1889 but was reburied in Richmond Va. four years later. As part of the ceremonies that took place during the transfer of the body from LA to VA, his body lay in the Capitol for two hours.
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Walker
06/02 10:56 AM
gross
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insaniti66
06/02 11:05 AM
Woooohoooo! Framed mural of a funeral procession going in the bedroom! The wife will love it!
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roi
06/02 11:05 AM
Thanks Ladye Jane. Your items are the best. I cannot wait for the next one!
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Tony Woodard
06/02 12:14 PM
Anyone who guessed pre-1890’s should examine their vision. This picture is full of power lines.
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pbeez
07/04 11:36 AM
Davis’ body was over 4 hours late that day. He is laying on a bear skin rug, and is being driving by a man who Davis once owned. There is a young girl on each corner holding a furled Confederate flag - I don’t have my paper right here, but they are all from big families in town - one is a Deavereux. When he got to the Capitol, there was a choir on the portico that sang funeral dirges as they carried the body in. The singers moved in with the body, continuing to sing. It was a big deal, not just in Raleigh, but in Montgomery & Atlanta where the body was taken to the state capitols as well. Richmond’s event was spectacular.
The N&O photo morgue has a two other view points of Davis coming down Fayetteville St, which they kindly let me make copies of years ago. I wish I had check in here earlier, I’d like to have this one!
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