Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1908-07-02
TOLL FOR
cleveland RITE
ES-PREslpENT BURIED WITH :
SIMPLE CEREMONIES.
PRES. ROOSEVELT ATTENDS
zuiosy OF the Dead and Song Service
Dispensed With-soldiers Guard
President Roosevelt.

Princeton. y. J.-Carrying out
the wishes OF her late husband.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland insisted that
his funeral Friday afternoon should bc
Of the simplest possible character.
Never before has former President
II the United States been laid TO rest
with such absence of pomp and cere.
nony.
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
Il received an invitation.
Those who followed the hearse TO
the cemetery and the order OF their
carriages are:
DIR. Henry an Dyke. DIR. ". r. Rich.
ards. Rev. r W Beach. Rev. NJ. v
Bartlett. the clergy.
Mrs. Cleveland (wifel. Richard
Cleveland (sonl. Dr. Joseph Bryant
physician.
Miss Rose Cleveland (sisterl. Miss
Esther Cleveland (daughterl.
Cleveland = Bacon tnsphewl. Miss
Mary Hastings tnlcceD Of Hartford
Conn: Prof and Mrs. Wood.
Mr. and Mrs lluddlestone. Prince.
ton. and Mrs. John r. Finley of New
York. Mrs. Richard Watson Glider.
Mir George Shipley. Miss Heclkler
tnursel. 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 +. Villas. Mrs. Dan.
iel S. Lamont. Mrs. John $. Hlbben
EX-Secretary Richard Olney. cxsec
rotary Charles $. Falrchild. ex-Secre
tary David II. Francis. ex.Attorn-y
General Judson Harmon.
Ex-Secretary Hilary A. H-rber,
Washington. eH-Secretary and Gov
Hoke Smith tGeorsIal. 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 Prlncetonl. Or
George Carnochan (New YORK;. Dr
lockwood
Mr.. Charles Goodyear. Gen Ansor
McCook. DR. ST. Clair MeKelWay
(Brooklynl. Mr. Farquhar.
Dean Fine and trustees of univer
sity.
Bishop McFall, Trenton. Father
Leahy. pastor ST Paurs Roman Catho
lie Church
Representatives of Equitable Life.
Mrs Junius Morgan. Miss Sarah
Morgan. Mrs George b. Mcclellan
Mrs Henry Sstjerlee
Randolph West. Mrs 4. 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 tNeu
York;. Charles r Crane. Roaman Gil
der.
TT. Blsseu. C r. Raoon. H. u Top
skyan. Pension Commissiouer.
T. H. Harrison Garrett Mr ana Mrs
Horatio Garrett. Baltimore
Scores of beautiful faral offerings
and tslegrams and cables OF sympath,
poured into the stricken Clevelanl
home Friday
Marx TRain sent this -Hs a.
man kH-u loved and honored 10
= years. mourn fof yoa
In the bruad central hal - ~
I Cleevlant home che cisrEy uan wh,
oniciated read The Pr~shYisrisI
burial service The hearss. foIloHe,
hy probably - carriages. thsn move.
through fhe center q tAe tasu and
whiIe from Princetoa's tvy-ciad ioWe
is tolied the passing bel the morta
remains of her Ereatesf citl1-n ser
borne 10 the grav"
There the easket vas placed Ia al
unmarked plot shaded hy spruce an
maple. directly beside the lvy-covere'
grave of the former Presidents nrs
daughter. Ruth
There was no firing no singing an
no eulOgy az the grave Simplicity a
great as possible was observed
1t vas Mr. Cieveland's wish say
Mrs. Cleveland. and that Is a sufa
cieni reason
Mrs Cleveland opposed any rilitar
display. but as President Roosevelt
had slgnihed his wish to attend sh
agreed that there should be mountel
troops and policemen along the lin.
Of march. as a measure OF protection
for the Chief Magistrate.