
obituaries and funeral orations



Voltairine de Cleyre, “Dyer D. Lum”
Dyer D. Lum February 15, 1839–April 6, 1893 One of the silent martyrs whose graves are trodden to the level by their fellows’ feet, almost before it is seen that they have fallen, completed his […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Dyer D. Lum” (1893)
DYER D. LUM. BY VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE. DYER D. LUM, poet, philosopher and revolutionist, whose portrait appears as the frontispiece of this number of the Magazine, was born at Geneva, N. Y., February I5, 1839. […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “In Hora Mortis Nostrae” (1893)
“IN HORA MORTIS NOSTRAE.” ON Wednesday, March 15th, Mrs. Ellen Harker died at Reading, Penna; and with the going out of her breath one of the stanchest and most long-tried friends of liberty of thought […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Katherine Karg Harker—Obituary” (1896)
MRS. KATHERINE KARG HARKER.—OBITUARY. BY VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE. IN the presence of those solemnly closed eyes, these pulseless hands, these voiceless lips I come to speak, as someday I wish that one will speak for […]

Obituary for Emile Digeon, hero of the Narbonne Commune
[ezcol_2third] Our Dead EMILE DIGEON Long ago, a young man, who had been a soldier under Digeon at Narbonne, spoke of him in the best possible terms, but I had never seen him, when some […]