The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-12-19
MORE CREMATION:
The Body Of Mr. Charles McCrssrY Consumed
at Washington, Pa
SAD DEATHBED TALE.
DR.. Lemoyne's Settling Furnace
Again Invaded.

The Rev. George. 8. Payson. the pastor of the In.
wood Presby terrain Church. returned yesterday
morning from Washington. Pa. where he had taken
tho body of of his parishfoners to DIR.
Lemoyne's crematory to be incinerated. He repeat
eddy refused to divulge the name of the young
man. and said that he the Of q wealthy New
York family. and that he himself young msr-
chant. highly esteemed citizen and Arm believer
in God and hereafter Notwithstanding these
urgent protests it supposed that
the body was that of Andrew Tracy. who
was hanged December at Shutdown, Pa, AS he
had expressed decided preference for that method
of disposng of his remains before his DEATH To all
requests of the newspaper mon Mr.. Payson turned a
deaf ear and refused to crafty curiosity which
would not down. When he reached the Hudson River
railroad depot at Inwood in the early morning yes
terday it was too soon to many of his parish
toner's. but there few present who expressed
themselves in decided against the pastor in
terfering in Of this nature. why has pas
interfered in q matter of this character?" was
almost the first greeting the pastor heard as he
walked along the depot floor. But this was not SO
much adisapprova OF his arduous duty and visit to
Washington, Pa, rs 1t WAS personal dislike to the
cause that led to it. In Inwood 1t gener-
ally known who the young business man was that
person had but pass inside through tho low stone
walls that stand on the KingsbridRe road to know
h
McCreery. the Broadway dry goods dealer.
the subject. His parents lived in In
is the last one in the village on the river road.
It. stands ,,. on IMAM, an elevation and has all
sn' the Of Sne
ing. gravelled walks and rustic statues
in the elevated foreground made more prominent by
miles to the south and probably two miles to the
west. This was the home Of the young man who
cremated on Monday last.
WHO THE WAS
His age was twenty-four aud he died from con.
sumption. He was two years sick. and tho brood.
ing on his gradual decline might have caused him
to assume o in his dealings with his fell
or fancifal nature. II. such were the case It did
not appear to his parents, his sisters brothers.
or his pastor: Everybody IN inwood called him
"He knew what he was talking about every
said hui v Gd sSs who wsasa
young Charlie Mccreery was full Of sense and wis., wis.
when his sickness commenced. he was playful and
sportive. Graduating at the New York College
for the realities Of his fathers business.
Always full Of mrth, intelligent. kind-hearted and
% sood Tn IN 1s
his characteristics in his fathers words, HE
was man Of forty-four instead Of twenty-four.'
When his sickness commenced and he inn
pressed with the idea that his illness would be
fatal. he manifested no. alarm. He would
more Of conhdant than his father or
mother. He had daily conversations at his pastors
Afterward Mr.. Payson would call. and it in ono
Of the interviews that the sick desired his
surviving friends that his body would be cremated
after ne should die The Rev. Mr.. Payson
a ssS Uny
him from cremation. His thoughts were on that
subject. but his mind was made up. He
cuosted me not to make his desire public until
I. after his death. The desire for cremation not
~
considered and long thought Of resolution When
death at last the relatives greatly SHOCKED
ut the necessity imposed SEQ On them Dy the request
''The Rev. Mr.. Payson myself, my eldest son. Jamer
on what should be DONE" said Mr.. Mccreery last
night land we wore sorely puzzled After deep re-
n ,na 0ns wshss er s
the body deposited in the receiving vault at
woodiswn Cemetery. the he, CONN ~ was metallic
had been displaced from the inside. This done
with the idea Of avoiding the dead boys wish
we found that there was escape from carrying
out the written wish. the Rev. Mr.. Payson asked
him. III il was too PAINFUL for me or
n' Of In regard to sns
knew anything about the fact OF cremating
In my family save my oldest son. myself. his mother
that he went down to Washington. and the
public can know that he ., had no desire but
Ito went down there. and the body
was cremsted. Notwithsi andng that my boy wished
his body burned he desired that there should be the
least publicity possible about It, 1t IL with this dee
sire that everybody connected with the case moved
mysteriously and did not furnish information to
the press nc Washington aud Pittsburg. Pa. found
. few hours ago In consultation with Mr.. Payson
that the secret would have to be revealed, and mfde
Il now only because cannot help it," Mr.. Payson
was ut = wedding ut Mr.. Duyckman's, on the Kings.
bridge Road. when the reporter called, but the pro-
OF Incarceration described by him during
lull in the festivities. "The body removed from
the casket," he said, "and covered with alum
soaked sheet. The furnace heated to white
heat. The body then placed in the seething
furnace. and In few minutes was
stored 20 its original elements. 1t will
be left In there until IL cools.
probably should say IL would be left In IL for two
days. The dust will then be placed In the casket
from which Il was taken. aud brought to New
York by his brother, Mr.. James @. McCreery, aud
lodged in tho vault In Woodlawn.
PUNCH CREMATION.
The body OF Christian Frederick Funch, who
pressed desire In his last will that his body should
DO cremated and that the cremation should take
place In Milan. Italy. 10 m TO avoid unnecessary
publicity. The body IL lying In the vault of the
Marble Cemetery. on second avenue, above
Second street. MIR. N. Hull Hodgsons
the sexton. said yesterday that Il was brought
there by Undertaken j. Fsckiner. OF No. 65 seventh
avenue. for the purpose OF placing IL in the vault
until tho departure OF the next steamer He ex-
peccd order to-day TO put the body on board the
steamer.
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