The Pittsburgh Press (November 19, 1944)
‘Cotton Ed’s’ funeral will be held today
Lynchburg, South Carolina (UP) – (Nov. 18)
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Senator Ellison D. “Cotton Ed” Smith, South Carolina’s vitriolic dean of the Senate, who died yesterday of a heart attack at his plantation.
The body of the 80-year-old Senator, whose fanatical devotion to anything representing cotton earned him his nickname, will be buried in the family plot of St. Luke’s Methodist Church following services at 3:30 p.m. EWT.