The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-28
LAID TO REST.
Funeral OF Rutherford 3. Hayes
Nineteenth President.
Thousands Attend the Obsequies Mt Fro-
mont, o.--A Vast Military and Civic
Cortege In Line--AN the Great
Government Offices Represented.


Government Offices Represented.
FREMONT, o., Jan. 21.-By Friday
morning every preparation had been
completed for the funeral of Ex-Presi-
dent Hayes, and nothing had been left
undone to care for the large crowd of
visitors that came on every train.
Prosident-elect Grover Cleveland ar
rived at o'clock Friday morning in O
special car on the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern road. He is the
guest of Col II. S. Buclsland
Four members of the cabinet, Secre-
tary Foster, Secretary Rusk, Secretary
Noble and Postmaster General Wana-
maker, and many other distinguished
personages also arrived. Capt. Howell
and Commanders Dickinson and Hous-
ton represent their department at the
funeral
Gov. Mckinley and the state leg1s-
lature arrived at noon, as did also a
troop of cavalry, ten companies of the
Sixteenth regiment and company Of
artillery.
At o o'clock a. IN. the Hayes mansion
was thrown open and the body lay in
state until noon. Hundreds viewed the
remains.
The elegant plain cedar casket in
black cloth rested in the center of the
room, with no decoration but three
palm branches tied with purple ribbon
at the foot, the gift of Mr. and Mrs.
David T, Norton, of Cleveland.
On his breast rested the beautiful
decoration of commander-in-chiefo of the
Loyal Legion, and on the left lapel OF
the dress coat the decoration of the
Army of West Virginia. Across the
wide window seat in the south end of
the room stretched a large American
flag held in place by punches of white
and yellow roses and wreaths of many
colored heliotropes exhaling their per-
fume on the freezing air. .se's
The wide windows of the mansion at
Spiegel grove, through which the Janu-
ary sunshine was streaming, were filled
with most distinguished company
when the farewell services of the dead
president began at O'Clock. In the
south parlor and the large bed-cham ber
in the rear of it, long occupied by Gen,
Hayes, were President-elect Grover
Cleveland, members of President Harri-
sons cabinet, representatives of the
United States senate and house, and
the officers of the army and navy sent
to represent their departments.
Across the wide hall in the north par.
lor, and the library to the rear of it,
were Gov. Mckinley and his staff. the
members of the Ohio general assembly
and other representative bodies and
friends In the far north end of the
room many stood, the throng of distin-
guished men being too great to permit
of the seating of all. In the front hall
was the double quartet under the lead
ership of Prof. Alfred Arthur of the
Cleveland Conservatory of Music,
q member of Gen. Hayes old regi-
ment, which, with Mrs. T. II. Dorr
of this city, sang the hymns chosen by
the family with tenderness and feeling.
Rev. j. l.. Albritton, of the NJ. e.
church of Fremont, standing between
the doors of the parlors in the expansive
hall read the 23d Psalm after a hymn
and was followed in prayer by Presi-
dent j. w. Bashford, D. D., who
some forty-fve years ago united in
marriage Lucy Webb and Rutherford
Birchard Hayes, in Chillicothe, o. An.
other hymn, the Lords prayer repeated
impressively and the simple, solemn
services at the house were over. The
bodybearers lifted the remains, bore
them from the hushed mansion, amid
sobs and tears, and the long procession
wound out through the native forest of
Spiegel grove, which the illustrious
dead had nourished with such care,
down Birchard avenue and out Buck
land to Oakwood cemetery where, after
the brief and simple ritual of the Grand
Army of the Republic, all that was
mortal of Rutherford b. Hayes. nine
teenth president of the United States,
was committed to the tomb, to rest be-
side the ashes of the beloved wife gone
before.
The order of the funeral procession
was: Honorary pall-bearers, Hon. Chas
Foster, Gov. William Mckinley, Hon.
j. L. M. Curry, ex-minister to Spain;
Senator Calvin S. Brice, Maj. E. C.
Dawes, Gen. Wagner Swayne, Gen. M.
F. Force and Hon. William e. Haynes
members of the family, ex-President
Cleveland, Hon. William Henry Smith,
members of the cabinet, Att'y-Gen. w.
H. II. Miller, Secretary Stephen B. Ell
kins, Postmaster General John Wana-
maker and Secretaries Noble and Rusk,
representatives of the United States
senate, representatives of the house,
representatives of the officers of the
army, Col. Henry G. Corbin, Gen.
j. c. breckenridge, Gen. George D.
Ruggles, Gen. NJ. 1. Ludington, Capt
TaslSer N. Bliss, of Gen. Schofeld's
staff; Representatives of the United
States navy, Capt. Howell, Command
ers Dickins and Houston; representa-
tives of the several Communicates of
the Loyal Legion, officers and ex-offi-
GERS of the Regimental association of
the Twenty-third o. V. l., officers and
ex-officers of the G. A. R., of Ohio,
and all the civil officers of the state in
the order of precedence, mayor and
common council of Fremont, mayor
and common council of Cleveland,
mayor and common council of Toledo,
mayor and common council of San
dusky.
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