The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-07-03
LAID TO REST
ExPauslpuNr nusiup VITA i.
SIMPLE ctRGMoNtEB.
PRES. ROOSEVELT ATTENDS
Euiogy OF the Dead and song Service
Dispensed With-Soldiers Guard
President Roosevelt !,

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Mrs. Grover Cleveland insisted that
his funeral Friday afternoon should be
OF the simplest possible character.
Never before has a former President
OF he 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 forme President OF the United
States. and only those who requested
1t received an invitation.
Those who followed the hearse to
the cemetery and the order of their
carriages are:
DIR. Henry an Dyke, DR.. w. r. Rich.
ards, Rev. +. w. Beach, Rev. NJ. v.
Bartlett. the' clergy.
Mrs. Cleveland (wife), Richard
Cleveland tson), DR.. Joseph Bryant
(physician).
Miss Rose Cleveland (sister), Miss
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.
Chief Justice Fuller, Gov. Fort, Gov.
Hughes. Secretary Cortelyou.
~Ex-Secretary John G.. Carlisle, ex.
Secretary William F.. Villas, Mrs. DAN
lei S. Lamont, Mrs. John s. Hibben.
Ex-Secretary Richard Olney, ex.sec.
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;, Dr.
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, H. H. Top.
akyan, Pension Commissioner.
T. 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 .
man I knew, loved and honored for
25 years. I mourn for you"
In the broad central hall of tho
Cleevland 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 P%rinceton's ivy-clad tower
is tolled the passing bell, the mortal
remains of her greatest citizen were
borne to the grave.
There the casket was placed In an
unmarked plot shaded by spruce and
maple, directly beside the UNCOVERED
grave of the former Presidents first
daughter, Ruth.
There was no firing, 40 singing and
no eulogy at the grave. Simplicity as
great as possible was observed.
ut was Mr.. Cleveland's WISH" saya
Mrs. Cleveland, "and that is a suff.
cient reason"
Mrs. Cleveland opposed any military
display, but as President Roosevelt
had signified his wish to attend she
agreed that there should be mounted
troops and policemen along the line
OF march, as a measure Of protection
for the Chief Magistrate.
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Ten, III and Crippled, Psrdoned.
Frankfort, K~y.-Acting Governor
Cox Wednesday pardoned ten Grip
pied and infirm convicts who have
been charges on the state for years.
They were released Thursday. This
ia the greatest number of prisoners
discharged at one time in 30 years.
Four are blind, three are dying from
consumption, one with white swelling.