Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-02
BELLS TOLL FOR
CLEVELAND RITE
Ex-PRESlDENT BURIED WITH
SIMPLE CEREMONIES.
PRES. ROOSEVELT ATTENDS
EuIogy Of the Dead and Song Service
Dispensed With-Soldiers Guard
President Roosevelt.

Princeton, N. carrying out
the wishes of her late husband.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland insisted that
his funeral Friday afternoon should be
of the simplest possible character.
Never before has a former President
of the United States been laid to rest
with such absence of pomp and cere-
mOny.
No one was invited to attend except
personal friends and former associates
of the former President of the United
States, and only those who requested
it received an invitation.
Those who followed the hearse to
the cemetery and the order of their
carriages are:
DR.. Henry an Dyke, DR.. W. R. Rich
ards, Rev, F. w. Beach, Rev. NJ. V.
Bartlett, the clergy.
Mrs. Cleveland (wife), Richard
Cleveland (son), DR.. Joseph Bryant
(physician).
Mlbo IlOoC SlCNtidlu NSloIOlJs NlloS
Esther Cleveland (daughter).
Cleveland F. Bacon (nephew), Miss
Mary Hastings ~(niece) of Hartford,
Conn; Prof. and Mrs. Wood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Huddlestone, Prince
ton, and Mrs. John F. Finley of New
York, Mrs. Richard Watson Glider.
Mr.. George Shipley, Miss Heckler
(nurse), Charles Rogers.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt, Secre-
tary Loeb.
Secret Service men (four).
Chief Justice Fuller, Gov. Fort, Gov.
Hughes, Secretary Cortelyou.
Ex-Secretary John G. Carlisle, ex-
Secretary William F. Villas, Mrs. Dan.
iel S. Lamont, Mrs. John s. Hibben.
Ex-Secretary Richard Olney, ex-5ec-
rotary Charles S. Fairchild, ex-Secre-
tary David R. Francis, ex.Attorney
General Judson Harmon.
Ex-Secretary Hilary A. Herbert
(Washington), ex-Secretary and Gov.
Hoke Smith (Georgia), Senator Kean
of New Jersey, Senator Griggs of New
Jersey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hastings, New
York; Mrs. Joseph Bryant, Miss Flor
ence Bryant.
Mrs. Wilson S.. Bissell, Mrs. Daniel
Manning, Mr.. and Mrs. st. George
Tucker.
DR.. and Mrs. Gibson ~(Princeton), DR..
George Carnochan New York;, Or.
Lockwood.
Mr.. Charles Goodyear, Gen. Arson
McCook, Dr.. st. Clair McKelway
(Brooklyn), Mr.. Farquhar.
Dean Fine and trustees of univer-
sity.
Bishop McFall, Trenton; Father
Leahy, pastor st. Paul's Roman Catho-
lie Church.
Representatives of Equitable Life.
Mrs, Junius Morgan, Miss Sarah
Morgan, Mrs. George B. Mcclellan,
Mrs. Henry Satterlee.
Randolph West, Mrs. A. D. Russell,
Mrs. Howard McClenehan, Albert D.
Boyden.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Armour, Mrs.
Cleveland H. Dodge New York;, Mrs.
Bayard Henry.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Colgate New
York;, Charles R. Crane, Rodman Gil.
der.
T. F. Bissell, G. R. Bacon, II. H. Top.
akyan, Pension Commissioner.
7. H. Harrison Garrett, Mr.. and Mrs
Horatio Garrett, Baltimore.
Scores of beautiful floral offerings
and kilograms and cables Of sympathy
poured into the stricken Cleveland
home Friday.
Mark Twain sent this: "He was a
man | knew, loved and honored fol-
rs years. | mourn for you"
In the broad central hall of the
Cleveland home the clergyman who
officiated read the Presbyterian
burial service. The hearse, followed
by probably so carriages, then moved
through the center of the town, and
while from Princeton's ivy-clad tower
is tolled the passing bell, the morta
remains of her greatest citizen were
borne to the grave.
There the casket was placed in al
unmarked plot shaded by spruce ant
maple, directly beside the UNCOVERED
grave Of the former Presidents frs
daughter, Ruth.
There was no firing, no singing ant
no eulogy at the grave. Simplicity a
great as possible was observed.
ut was Mr.. Cleveland's WISH" say
: Mrs. Cleveland, land that is a suff
/ cient reason"
, Mrs. Cleveland opposed any militar,
: display, but as President Roosevelt
had signified his wish to attend sh
agreed that there should be mounted
troops and policemen along the lin,
of march, as a of protection
I for the Chief Magistrate.
3 Ten, III and Crippled, P%ardoned.
s Frankfort. Ky.-Acting Goyerno