New-York tribune., 1899-07-26
COL. NGERSOLL'S FUNERAL
SIMPLE TRIBUTES PAID TO HIS MEMORY
AT HIS HOME.
HIS BODY WILL PROBABLY BE cREMArED AT

HIS BODY WILL PROBABLY BE CREMATED AT
FRESH POND MORROW.
Dobbs Ferry n. Y. July 25.-The funeral of Rob
ert G. Ingerson took place this afternoon at
o'clock at Walston-on- Hudson his home. where ne
died last Friday.
AS funeral IT was. perhaps. unique. The body
lay on a cot IN front OF the mantepiece IN the
room where he died which was mis- bedroom ana
Is In the southwest corner OF the house his arms
were crossed his breast and on his breast lay
red rose. All about him white. ~hhe al
around the cot were banks OF floral tributes sent
by friends. They were in the shape OF wreaths ana
bunches
Just before the simple service the house was
darkened. At the foot OF the cot sat Mrs niger
soil and Mrs Waston II. Brown ner dauen'er'
while on a couch close at hand sat MISS MAUI
, Ingersol. They kept their handkerchiefs 10 then
faces all the time and were much agitateo. MT
and Mrs J. p Farrell stood near. Charles Broad
way Rouss the old friend OF Colonel lngersoh'
occupied chair by the side Of the bier All the
others remained standing. There were ABOUT ior0y
In the room and standing in the halfway
The intense silence was broken oy DF' Jun"
Clark Ridpath who in a voice full Of emotion
said
MY friends II is my very sad duty to read IN
the presence Of the dead the last poem written oy
Colonel Robert q. Ingersoll. entitled DeclAIA Aeioh
OF the Free
in some OF its parts only few hours oetore ne was
stricken.
Major O. j. Smith who lives in Doobs Ferry and
was a close personal friend OF Colonel Ingersoh,
then without any Introduction OF his own. redu
another extract from Colonel Ingersolls writings
entitled My Religion;
MeTcv 70 assist the weak TO forget wrongs and
remember benefts-to love the truth 10 D. @ sincere
IN utfer honest words to love liberty, 10 wage re-
lentless war against slavery IN an lSs Ioiiha h ~
love wife and child and triena' 10 mar ia 10
cultivate the mind. TO be familiar WIN Ine anZisnS Z
thoughts that genius mas conrage and cheer
filness 70 make others happy, TO MI NE win tne
spendor OF ened Error to destroy prejudice TO
receive new truths with gladness to cuitlvate p nop
To- night: 70 do the best that can be done ana "a
then be resigned-ths is the reagloh Oa brain and
creed OF science Inls Statistics wv
heart
Dr John Elliott who is an assistant OF Dr fehA
Adler then said: Two decades ago Coionei Insel-
coll said above his brother Eben {. Ingersoh D
bier this Grafton:
Dear Friends: l am going 10 do IN Inat "'''" ''''
dead of promised he would do for me-, .o+ber
The loved and loving brother. husoano. tn,,cb
friend died where MANHOOD MOI Mn u,are falling
as roon and while the shadows sun were AaI''''e
to ine @es not passed on nfe's highways the stone
anao Senf n ~ he Law down by the waysde and using
a. mgnfd9 Snfden for pillow fell into that drsamless @
~ seGp e e' uth life and raptured with the world ne
passed % ali II NAV be best just in the happiest
sunniest hour OF all the voyage. Whe eager en nIl
26ek are 5d IN an instant hear the bows roar above
sunken ship For ~netneT shore m wreck at last
must mark the end OF each ana al; ana b eIets Ts
f matter If It's ;cG e9HTy p4fr Y}tb low viii at It's
close become a tragedy as sad ana deep anu @ daLn
as can be Of the warp ana "ool oi "'SS'7''
af He iovsd the beautiful and with color form 5
ana muse & noor and wronged and lovingly gave
aims With loyal heart and with the pures' hahus
ne He iaSle Was worshppe Of liberty friend Of b the
oppressed thousand times III haYs nsce temple
and ali season. summer He believed that napIl-
ness was the only gGQd bnms1Itv the only reg-
ION and love the only priest He ADDED 10 me Inc sum I'm
al, human og 2 asq service to bring blossom 70 his
grave he would sleep tonight beneath wilder DER,
Rsson9 q ,se Sesh @ We cry a60S and the
the ECHO Of our wang cry erG IRON 1as
no word but in the night OF death hope sees star
and listening love can hear the Syins Tse Gl the
approach Of death for the return Of health wnis,
na Believe in Spite Of doubts and dogmas. OF
fears and tears that these dear words are true Of
And nd now ' to YOU who have been chosen from
among the many men ne lQyed 20 90 & tne IasI G sap
cannot contain our love There was. there Is, no
gentler stronger. manlier man
This ended the service. Nearly all present TOOK
parting look at Colonel Ingersols face and passed
After all had gone Mr.. Rouss arose from his
chair. and as ne is totally blind passed his hand
over the face Of his departed friend and said
We'll perhaps he's better now. No one can un-
derstand It."
Then Mrs Ingersol said 10 him:
The Coone' wanted you to put your hand upon
his heart" and sutng the action 10 the word she
directed his hand TO the left breast Of the body
Mr. ROuss asked her what she was going TO do
with the body.
i II cant give him up" she said IT can't put him
in the ground. I can't bear to think OF il. We're
going TO bring him back home" She then picked up
a fan and famed fly from her dead husbands
face.
Among those present DR.. r. B. Contant.
Dr Joseph Hasbrouck Charles Broadway Rouss,
David Rousseau Alfred G. Coale. c. Odllon Mall
loux James Clouston. John G. Heinl, Albert Morris
Bagby Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Levi Thomas
Capek DIT &. W. Wetmore. Eugene Mcdonald,
Mss Smith Mrs. Franz B Kaltonburn and NJ.
Goldsmith. representing the Manhattan Liberal AS
ISOLATION.
In the morning there many visitors 10 look
eral old coiored servants Of the family. who had
come all the way from Washington to do honor to
their benefaCtOr.
Many additional messages Of sympathy were re.
ceived to-day, one OF them being from General
Miles Flora tributes received all the morn
ing and there two rooms full OF them.
A photogre ph OF the body was taken this after
noon Just II lay surrounded by these flowers. II
shows a three quarter view OF the face The body
will probably be taken 10 Fresh Pond on Thursday
for cremation but this arrangement is subject TO
change.