Evening star., 1924-07-08
BODY WILL REST !
IN VERMONT HILLS
QuIet Cemetery at Fathers
Birthplace Will Receive '
Body of Presidents Son.
SIMPLE CEREMONY HERE
Funeral Service at Northampton to
BE Attended by Relatives and
Former Playmates.

cit will be in the quiet little ceme-
tery on the outskirts of Plymouth.
w. the birthplace of the President
and the home of his father, that the
BODY of Calvin Coolidge, jr., will be
buried Thursday afternoon
In the Coolidge lot in this little
graveyard, as those of Plymouth and
thereabouts refer to it, the mother
OF the President and his only sister lie
buried
There has been no death in the
fresldents immediate family. and he
mas no family lot, and because of the
sentiment associated with the Ply
moeth cemetery, it was selected by
the President and Mrs. Coolidge as
the place of interment for their boy.
AS would be expected everything
associated with the funeral of this
son OF Calvin Coolidge VIII be simple
ana as FAR as possible removed from
anything bordering on pomp or os-
tentatlon. In this connection the
Iesioent mas said repeatedly during
the discussion of the making of ar
ransements for the funeral that Cal
YIN was just plain, ordinary Ameri-
can cluzen; just a plain American
poy' that he was not an official. and,
because or that there is 10 be nothing
suggestive of the burial of an Off
cial.
Brief Service Here.
There will be a brief and simnIe
funeral service held in the east room
of the White House tomorrow after
noon al O'Clock. Besides the par
ents and John Coolidge. the dead
boys brother. number of intimate
friends and members of the cabinet.
there will be present only few
others, representing the diplomatic
corps, the Army and Navy and the
executive departments and others
high in official and political circles
Rev. Jason Noble Pierce pastor Of
the First Congre gational Church OF
this city. where the Coolidge family
has worshiped since living in the Ma
tional Capital, will officiate at this
ceremony. An hour or so later the
funeral party will leave the White
House for the Union station. where il
will board a train for Northampton,
Mass, the home of President Coolidge.
Within the east room, wherein have
lain the bodies of some Of Americas 5
most beloved leaders-Harding, Mckin-
ley, Lincoln and others-rested the re-
mains of Calvin Coolidge. jr., surround
ed by military guard that took up its
sad sentinel at the bier early this morn
ing.
Every four hours the men of the serv-
is being kept OF the remains Of the
Presidents son. Half Of the guard are
marines and half sailors. members of
the crew of the presidential yacht May
flower, which So often carried the Pres
ident and his sons on pleasure trips
down the Potomac.
From the sentinels six marines will
be selected to act as pallbearers and
will accompany the funeral party to
Northampton and Plymouth.
Service at Home.
The train is expected to arrive
there early in the morning. as a
funeral service at the Ei~arLs Con-
Eregational Church of that place,
which was formerly attended BY The
Coolidge family and Of which S-oanS
Calvin was . member, has been ar
ranged for S O'clock THURSDAY
Rev. kenneth E. Wells, pastor OF
that church, Will otticiate at this
ceremony. Following this the
journey 10 Plymouth viii be resumed
ments, the party is expected TO ar
rive there in time for the burial in
the Plymouth cemetery at O'Clock
in the afternoon.
The funeral party VIII start a.
once upon its long journey back to
Washington.
No Relatives Here.
Other than the members of the Presi-
dents immediate family there Will be
none of his or Mrs. Coolidse's family
present at the service TO be held in
the east room of the White House to-
morrow afternoon. This ceremony,
while not looked upon as official, Will
be something of that nature. The
service to be held at the Edwards Con-
gregational Church, in Northampton,
where President and Mrs. Coolidge at
tended a. he rose, step by step, in ma
tional prominence, and where the Cool
idge boys attended from the time they
went to their first Sunday school. will
be more for the benefit of the family.
1t will be at this service that John
Coolidge, father of the President and
Plymouth's leading citizen, will be
present. Also there will be Mrs. An
drey Goodhue, the widowed mother of
Mrs. Coolidge. who lives at the Cool
idge home in Northampton. There
will be the other relatives of the two
families, as we'll as hundreds of close
friends.
There also will he the schoolhoy
friends and playmates of the dead
boy and his brother, as well as some
of his classmates from MercersburS
Academy, where the two sons Of the
President have been students for the
past two years and from which the
boys had returned to the White House
barely three weeks ago.