The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-01-08
BODY OF FORMER
PRESIDENT LAID
QUIETLY TO REST
Funeral Services for Roose-
welt Without Ostentation-
Simple Service for Family at
Home.
fBy Associated Preas)


(By Associated Preas)
OYSTER BAY, Jan. S.-Except for
two sons, absent as soldiers IN their
country's service overseas. the family
OF Theodore Roosevelt. Goth president
of the United States. assembled in the
living room at Sycamore Hill shortly
before noon today for the first OF a
trinity of simple services. at home
church and grave side, with which the
body Of the noted American will be
laid to rest as a private citizen OF this
Long Island village.
Mrs. Roosevelt, sharing her hus-
bands antipathy to funeral ceremony,
decided not to attend the church SER
vices, nor to join the procession to
| the cemetery 1t was announced that
she would bid goodbye to the body OF
her companion in the house where
they lived for many years while her
| children who grew to manhood and
| womanhood in the atmosphere OF the
old homestead would be all that Is
mortal of their famous father commit
ted to earth in the family plot topping
| the highest hill in Young's memorial
cemetery overlooking Long Island
sound.
Simplicity Followed.
| The home service, one or prayer
alone, was to last hardly more than
Ave minutes. according to the Rev.
George E. Talmage. rector OF Christ
Episcopal, the Roosevelt family church
while the ritual. before the altar was
(, expected to be concluded within ID or
20 minutes after the casket was
brought into the edifice. The element
OF simplicity was to be followed, the
clergyman said, even to omission OF
the customary organ voluntary while
the formal Episcopal service was be-
ing read.
Long before the hour set for the
simple funeral services for Theodore
Roosevelt this afternoon. silent crowds
of villagers and visitors collected in
the vicinity Of Sycamore Hill, Christ
Episcopal church and Young's Memor
ial cemetery. Many tried in vain to
gain admittance to the spacious
grounds of the Roosevelt estate. but
mounted police, special deputy sher
) ifs and detectives kept all on the
move.
hush that fell over the town as the
hour for the services approached anC
the general air of sorrow on the count
enances of the citizens. School chill
dren, dismissed for the day, assembled
in the streets and talked in whispers
| The droning of motors of the army air
planes that hovered over the Roose
, Welt mansion seemed to accentuate
the stiffness. Business was virtual,
SUSPENDED. Many buildings Were
draped with crepe and flags droopet
at half staff.
Family at Service.
Only the immediate members of tht
family were present at the praye'
service at the house prior to the rite:
at Christ church as follows:
. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Repre-
, sentative and Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, Captain and Mrs. Archibald
Roosevelt, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt
Z Jr., Mrs. Richard Derby. Mrs. Doug
las Robinson, the colonels sister; Mr.
, and Mrs. Douglas Robinson. the for
mer being the colonel's nephew; Rea
Admiral W. S. Cowles, Mr.. and Mrs
, Joseph Alsop; w. Emlen Roosevelt
and John K Roosevelt, cousins of tn
, colonel; Mr.. and Mrs. E. Reeve MeI
r ritt. Mrs. Jewett Roosevelt, Mr.. ant
Mrs. Langdon Warner. Mrs. Hilbourn
l.. Roosevelt, John Langdon Geer, Mrs
John E. Roosevelt, Mrs. James A
Roosevelt. Mrs. Frederick Roosevelt
Samuel Roosevelt and Miss Nelli
Tyler.
Admission to the little villag
5 church where the colonel worshippe
was by card and was limited to les
l. than five hundred. President Wilso
l. will be represented by Vice-Presiden
l. Thomas R. Marshall, the army by Ger
eral Peyton {. March, and the nav
y by Admiral C. MGR Winslow and dele
cations will represent both branche
of congress. Governor Alfred +
Smith and leaders of both branche
I of the legislature will represent Ne,
York state.
Rough Riders Invited.
8 Among the close friends OF tn
= former president invited were: Seni
!. tor Henry Cabot Lodge of Massach,
sets, former president. William How
ard Taft and former Justice Charlie
Evans Hughes. A delegation of roug
< riders. who served under the colone
in the Spanish-American war will hav
Q places of honor. This contingent ii
4 cluded: Lieutenant Colonel John
Greenway Of Bisbee. Ariz., famou
q football and baseball player in hi
}. college days; Major Roscoe Channini
l. former Princeton football player; NJ,
jor Robert Claiming. tennis player
r Captain W. E. Dame Of Las Vega
, N. NJ, Captain Arthur F. Cosby. a
2 tive in the work of the military trail
r ing camps association during the wa
n George and Charles E. Knoblaucl
d Charles Mills, Edgar Knapp, ]. LoI
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