A Popular Colored Man Buried.–
Allan Kelso died at 7 o,clock Saturday morning after an illness of several weeks’ duration from a general breaking down of the system. From long residence in Lynchburg he was well known in this community. He had the respect of his white fellow citizens and the admiration and regard of those of his own race. The funeral of deceased took place at 4 o’clock Sunday evening from Court Street Baptist church Rev. Phillip Morris, the pastor, officiating. After services the remains, escorted by the four lodges of Odd Fellows, of which deceased had been a member, were borne to the Methodist Cemetery, headed by Fitz’ [Fitch’s] brass band, and there interred with the rites of that order. Deceased was a brother of Samuel Kelso, who was a member of the reconstruction convention which framed the present constitution of Virginia, but the tastes of the dead man tended rather to the handling of tobacco than politics. He was popular with the manipulators of the weed in Lynchburg, who will miss, in his absence, a figure familiar with them.
Published in the Lynchburg News, 2 February 1892