Evening star., 1924-07-11
RESTS IN VERMONT HILLS.
Body Consigned to Grave With
Simple, Touching Rites.


PLYMOUTH, VT, July lin the
little village cemetery where the
naples and evergreens throw long
shadows across the old tombstones
on the hillside, they buried Calvin
Coolidge. sixteen-year- son name
sake OF the President. yesterday. Re-
stralninS in large part outward
manifestation of their sorrow, the
President. Mrs. Coolidge and John,
the elder son. stood with bowed heads
during the short, simple commitment
service, until a marine bugler had
blown taps" across the grave.
The cemetery where Calvin was
laid to rest lies on a little hill dom
mated by the Green mountains which
oVerShadoW this village In the fam
liy plot lie the mother of the Presi-
ueht, ancestors and kinsmen and in
the same grassy row where the grave
was aug are spaces reserved for the
last resting places of the President
John and his mother
Officials With Party.
Much of official Washington, in
Guiding eight cabinet members, and the
Speaker of the nations House of Rep
resentatives, and the governors of two
states, attended the services. The party
from washington came in the closely
guarded train. which was halted at
Northampton for services in the Ed
wards Congregational Church. where
Calvin was a member.
After the last note of taps had
echoed away the family group went
fsrrhorss for short tine ,ps t to the gid white
John c. Coolidge. where the Presi-
dent took his oath of office on August
year ago. Then, accompanied by
the elder Coolidge, the little family.
broken now by death, started on the
yesterday at the Ludlow railroad
station, thirteen miles away. halted
as the six marines from the presi-
guarded the boys bier constantly in
Washington and or the train. car
ried the casket to the waiting hearse
Then the procession, more than q
among the hills to the burial ground
Walk Up Hillside.
The party was forced to walk up
the hillside to the spot where the
grave had been prepared. After the
marines had lowered the casket into
place, a mixed quartet sang MY
Faith Looks Up to Thee" Rev. Ken
meth B. Welles. Northampton pastor,
who had accepted Calvin into the
church, read a few short passages
from the Bible, then offered a brief
prayer.
Softly, again, the quartet sang,
Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us"
After reciting the verses Of the hymn
Pierce. pastor of the First Congre-
gational Church. in Washington, read
the commitment service.
In the course of the prayer Mrs.
leaned heavily upon the President.
The hands of the elder John Cool
idge, holding his hat, trembled no.
ticeably. On the hillside and on the
slope across the road were gathered
hundreds of villagers, silent and
sympathetic.
Mrs. Coolidge Comforted.
The strains of a hymn comforted
the sorrowing mother. however. and.
looking up, she seemed to take re-
newed strength.
Taps were sounded then by the
same marine bugler who had sounded
the notes at the funerals of former
L
ing and at the services for Americas
Unknown Soldier.
AS the exercises ended Boy Scouts,
to which organization Calvin had be-
longed. filed by the grave. each drop
ping a rose as he passed.
The services at the cemetery were
short, lasting less than twenty min
utes- After the services q detail of
ten enlisted men of the Vermont Ma
Gonal Guard, under the command Of
on guard over the boys grave. They
will remain on duty at the cemetery
until Sunday. Additional troopers
were posted on the corners and roads
nearby.
Luncheon at Old Home,
After the ceremony at the grave.
President, Mrs. Colidge, their SON
John, the grandfather, John C. Cool
idge, and Mrs. Andrew Goodhue, Mrs.
Coolidge's mother, drove to the Cool
idge homestead, where, with a few
close relatives they were served a
simple luncheon.
Following time-honored custom
not without its touch of pathos, to-
day the President took his son John
out to the front veranda and there,
on the doorpost, marked his height
President drew a. second line and
marked it &C. c." the height that
Calvin would have been. The post was
marked many times, each apparently
on the occasion of some new visit of
the boys to the homestead.
The sun had dropped far toward
the hills in the west as the little
family group. already far behind the
time at first arranged for their de-
parture, turned away from the old
homestead on their return to Lud-
low and thence by train for Wash
ington. 1t was nearly 4:30 standard
time as the last car swung out of
the village.