Twin Falls County ID Archives Obituaries.....Flanagan, Peter J. October 26, 1916
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Twin Falls News  Oct 26 1916
            WANDERING MINER IS LAID TO REST
 All of Jarbidge Does Honor To Peter J.Flanagan---Ceremony impressive in its  
simplicity.
 JARBIDGE-Peter J.Flanagan was buried today at 2:30 p.m. Short services were 
held in the Jarbidge Commercial club,at which O.J.VanPELT delivered a very 
beautiful,though short sermon,and at the end read a message from the miner 
friends of Flanagan,which was attached to a wreath of flowers on the coffin.The 
message read somewhat as follows:
  "May these perfumed petals express what we cannot.Pete goodbye!"
 A quartet sang a few songs and then the men of the camp accompanied the body 
about a mile north of town to the graveyard,where after a short ceremony,the 
body was committed to the ground.
 The ceremony was very impressive in its simpicity,with the saloons and stores 
and mines emptied of their inmates-gamblers and 
tinhorns,miners,merchants,cowboys,teamsters,labores,prospectors and engineers-
All in a silent throng gathered to pay tribute to a wandering miner who was at 
last at rest.The grave itself is in a lonly place on a hillside,with the snowy 
peak of Jarbidge mountain looking down upon it,and pinnacled cliffs jutting out 
on the Skyline to ward off the evil spirit of Ja-ha-bich from God's acre.

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