AR SR33

Commemorates Alonzo John Wemple, a railroad engineer and fireman born October 1, 1833, in Schenectady, New York, who died January 21, 1929, in Fort Worth, Texas, at age 95.

Recognizes Wemple's participation in significant historical events including transporting captured Confederate soldiers during the Civil War and piloting President Abraham Lincoln's funeral train in 1865 from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Illinois.

Notes Wemple's witnessing of the Chicago Fire in 1871 while operating a switch engine in Illinois and his service from 1886 to 1888 piloting trains on the Texas and Pacific Railway west from Texarkana.

Documents Wemple's family: six children with first wife Charlotte Pennington (Frances, Minnie, Frederick, Mary, Charles, and Charlotte) and one son (Judie Newton Wemple) with second wife Pearly Lou Williams, whom he married after Charlotte's death in 1892.

Directs that an appropriate copy be provided to Dean Gibson on behalf of Mayor Wayne Smith and the Texarkana Historical Society & Museum of Texarkana, Arkansas, in connection with the first annual Railfest on May 11, 2013.