Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-20
The The Fun Funeral r Of MIR. Greeley.

beautiful appearance. Outside of the
church were throngs waiting in respect
fulsilenoe. Police stood in front of the
church as guard The church was
opened at about half-past ten, although
ladies' had previously been admitted and
filed the galleries. During the hour
which elapsed before the arrival of the
procession, q strain of music was dis
coursed by the choir.
Among the first celebrities to arrive
were Governor Hoffman and President
Grant Roscoe Conkling soon after enter.
'ed, and immediately following IgE,lTne hi;c and
Secretary Belknap, who sat at the right
of the pulpit. There were also General
Schurz, Lyman Trumbull, and Vice-Pres-
ident Colfax, who took seat near the
President The crowds outside extended
as far as the eye could reach, on either
side on Fifth avenue, awaiting the arrival
of the procession. AT eleven o'clock the
procession started from Mr.. Sinclair's
house, on Forty-fifth street. Many affect
ing scenes took place there during the
morning. Mr.. Greeley's daughters were
inconsolable in their grief. The corpse
WIS borne by ten men; next came the
chief mourners, then the Tribune Associ-
alton, and next the Herald Club. Follow
ing the corpse, the mourners, and the
Tribune and Herald Associations, came in
succession the military and civil officers,
according to the programme.
The church had been appropriately
decorated. Over the door in front hung
a flag draped up with black. In the vesti
bule was a portrait of Greeley with Grape
around the frame. The screen behind
the pulpit was covered with BLACK cloth.
hanging in graceful folds and relieved by
festoons, while from the top of it depend
ed graceful strings of smilax. The pull
pit itself and rail in front were gracefully
drapeda. DrapeTy ran around the front
of the galleries, and from bracket to
bracket along the side walls. Lengths of
serge dropped from the center of the
ceiling to the spring of each arch twined
aboutIeOlpmns, and hung from the pima
cldslof the organ. The clock, stopped
at ten minutes before Z, the hour of Gree
ley's death, was surrounded with black,
and above it, in n green wreath, was a
white cross of flowers. The pew Mr..
Greeley used to occupy, about midway of
the north aisle, next the wall, was draped
With Grape. The figure in flowers of a
Tyre with broken strings, hung at the
head. The seat was thickly strewn with
white flowers, camellias being placed in
the spot which Greeley himself used to
occupy. This pew will be left empty for
thirty days. The most remarkable decor
ations Of the church, however, were the
flowers. There was beautiful appro.
ptiateness and personal significance in
mahy,of the devices which surrounded
his bier. At the back of the pulpit, un.
der the words: cit is DONE" with which
his great life closed, was wreath of rip
ened wheat, fit emblem of the rich har-
vest the keen sickle of Death had so late
ly reaped. Below this was shield of
whitsiinWeTs, with the arms of the State
of New York in purple blossoms, the gift
of the Common Council. Still below the
last, an AK and q pen were arranged in
the form of q cross. a magnificent arch
of while flowers, presented by the ladies
of Dr. Chapin's congregation, spanned
the tvrtlpit over the sReaker's head On
its white 9r0Ifnd was wrought in crimson
blossomsthe legend Know that My
RedeemeT Liyeth." Indeed, these words
and the "It is DONE" we're repeated
agIih and again in decorations, in all
sorts of devices.
,At!tile right of the pulpit stood another
gift from the Common Council, a large
stand, of which the whole top was COM
posed Of the choicest flowers, rOsebuds
and eamdlias, and tuberOses, surmount-
ed by crown wrought from the same
lDTely blossoms A similar stand and
crown was the gift Of Mayor Hall, and
another CAME from the Lincoln Club.
The Lotos, the Union League, and the
Herald clubs were represented by ap-
propriate offerings. From the German
Greeley and Brown Club came an i'm
mense quill, wrought in tine choicest
flowers. One of the most remarkable of
the tributes was plOw composed. of
camellias and white roses, with a ground
work of Yioets and other modest bios
SONS. This beautiful design WAS the gift
of the 1Ii51Ine employees. Among the
most conspicuous offerings was a mag
nifecnt floral tablet, three and half feet
wide, standing about six feet from the
floor, and presenting the appearance of a
picture, supported by columns, of which
the frame consisted of violets and tea
rosebnds. The ground Of the tablet was
formed sof choicest white flowers, In
serb cd at TIE top with the words, 81
know that my Redeemer liveth." Ont
rever 10 We're the letters I'll. G., >" and the
motto, 'In .memoriam." The inscrip-
tions Biere- IN red flowers. This tablet
was presented 10y the Tribune Associa.
tidn.ey About the coffin itself were ar.
ranged gifts of the choicest kind from
persona4zfriends. The air waSfull. of the
sweet breath of flowers. They were
thick under the foot which trod so rever.
emily they bore him away. They filled
every available space with their beauty.
Among the significant emblems dis
played at the funeral was simple wreath
of dry leaves, with violets intertwined,
sent.by. Whitelaw Reid to the Misses
Greeley, with a brief expression of sym
pathy The Misses Greeley with theil
own hands bound the wreath about the
coffin of their father, as from one who tC
tho Ioct hh1 his cnp fi5auaa and lQva
Thurlow Weed was pail bearer, at his
ownTequest. Dudley s. Gregory, also 8
pail Bearer, was the man who loaned Mr.
Greeley the thousand dollars with which
he started the Tribune.
At twenty minutes past eleven O'Clock
the procession entered the church. The
solemnity of the scene was most impres
siYe. The stiffness was such that it seem
ed as though the people in the church
scarcely breathed. Prominent among
those who slowly wound their way W
theicentral aisle were ThurlOw Weed
William NJ. Evarts, Mayor Hall, with thu
present Postmaster-Genera Creswell
General Dix, Ex-Governor Morgan, Gen
eral Sheridan, Governor Randolph, q
New Jersey, and a Committee from tn,
Union League Club.
.Rey. DR.. .Ghapin opened the ceremo
nlSe W +Ieahhis an aPPioPlIaso s0IeSVioi
from the Scriptures. Miss Clara Louis,
Kellogg next sang, very touchingly, Z"
Know that My Redeemer Liveth," afte
which Henry Ward Beecher delivered
thefuneral Grafton, speaking substantial,
as follows: s7t-
When men have filled the household o
God With their presence, 1t is not surprising
that Eye niss thom, when they leave us for
ever, and yetthey are constantly, like in tn
prescntscase, going from US, and Others ar
being called upon by means of heavenly i'm
pulse to take their places in the great caus
of Gods truth, The occasion, my friends, i
a solemn and sublime ons,-and We forget tn
strife and contest of. the world, that strlf
that separated us politically in tn
affairs of the nation; and l join in this meet
ing to weep over the remains of him who /
nowaia our preseneey soon TO be taken iron
ussbut whose memory shall live forever il
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