The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-11
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Brave To The Last, Widow Pays Her Final Respects At Husbands Grave While High
 Officials Stand Nearby BURIAL SERVICES SIMPLE AS DEAD MAN DESIRED Edison, Ford And Firestone
 Are Among National Figures
 Who Mourn At Grave-Cabi-
 net Members Are Present

MARION. O., August 10.-(By As sociatcd Press )-Warren Harding of Ohio is home tonight; sleeping time away near the mother, at whose knee his first childish dream of greatness was prattled.
 Before his tomb. as the chiming voices of the choir sang softly among the trees. Nearer My God to Thee" another tender. brave woman stood with aching heart, her yelled face lifted to the sky. A moment later she stepped meagre moment into the dim vault where the dead husbands journey of life had ended. She waited not to see the iron gates close softly upon her dead.
 Harding is home forever from life's high places, where the rest less handy winds of ambition blow; home beneath Ohio soil, for above him the vaulted roof is mantled with grass grown sod; home among the friends and neighbors of his youth, the kindly people of kindly town. Time is ended for him, and the shouting and glamour that surrounds the great is done.
 Services Are Simple.
 It was a long road to that silent vault about which there closed to- night a guard of the citizen soldiery of his own state. There was end less ceremony of the nations and the peoples making to mark the way. But 1t ended simply, calmly and as the dead would have had it ended.
 Aside from the multitude that walled the long way from his fath- CTS home to the vault and those oth- CTS close packed to make a living setting for the funeral rites there was not much to mark it a s the bur ial Of one who had held highest power in his grasp. There were the ,7,1 ff h 7i- 1s6 sister services of the nation, the ad- mirals and generals who formed his honor escort, the friend and comrade who new is President in his stead, the co1Iea gues of his grief-stric icnen cabiuet That was all. except at the last the distant gun fire as he came to his tomb and the soft tones of d bugle sounding a soldier requiem IS the gates were closed.
 All Ohio Present.
 Otherwise the funeral services was that of simple and much loved citi- zen of Ohio. For all Ohio seemed to have come today to bid him farewell. ThrOngs whose number will never be known. passed beside his cas1et and looked their last upon the dead face before the time for the last Journey came.
 From his fathers house he went out again carried by the steadfast men who have stood constantly to guard dead commander. No sol emn music of bands or military pa seant marked his going, save the great flag of the President dropping In mourning and carried before him to the gates of the tomb as he went.
 In cars behind the simple hearse that carried now this honored lead CT came President Coolidge and the cabinet and the friends and close kin. There, too. came Chief Justice Taft and General Pershing. Last to leave the memoried house was Mrs. Harding, in black and with veil drawn close, and just ahead of her walked the old father, his face plainly showing the agony of his grice.
 Guns Speak From Afar.
 Through the silent, face walled street the cortege passed and around the corner to the quiet cemetery. As it came toward the gates, the guns spoke afar in honor.
 The vault stands ivy wrapped and set back into the gentle hill with little space before it. So the fu neral train was halted at a distance and the casket lifted down to be car ried to a resting place before the open entrance of the tomb. All ready those who knew the dead be- meath the capitol dome before he passed to the White House were gathered in waiting, in line acrosg the roadway that runs before the en- trance. With them stood the con-
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