New Britain herald., 1926-03-19
Son And Party Arrive At Homestead In Ply- mouth, Vt., This Morning After Trip By Train, Auto And Sleigh.
Services Will Be Held From Homestead Tomorrow Afternoon at ? O'Clock - Burial in Family Plot.

Plymouth, Vt., March ls Hp -- President Coolidge came to Ply mouth today. At 10:10 o'clock the president arrived at the white farmhouse where his father, Col. John c. Coolidge, lay dead. He was driven to Plymouth from Wood stock accompanied by Mrs. Cool idge, their son, John, Attorney General Sargent and Major James F. Coupal, White House physician
 Arrive in Slcighs
 The presidential party arrived in sleighs, having left their automo- piles at Bridgewater Corners for the last seven miles of snow-cov- cred roads. The president was in sleigh driven by Louis Chamber. lain, the local stage driver, long q friend of Col Coolidge.
 A military guard saluted the ey- ecutive as he turned from the main highway into the road leading tu his old home. At the farmhouse the president was the first to enter followed closely by Mrs. Coolidge and John. A battery of cameras mounted on eight-foot snowheap~ beside the porch clicked as tho party passed into the house of mourning.
 Attorney General Sargent and Major Coupal followed the presi. dent and his family into the Cool idge home.
 Villagers Are silent 1 Across the road in front Of the general store the entire populatou of the village stood In silence as the president passed. All the olt3 neighbors, many of them bound 10 the colonel by ties Of blood, were in the group, While the mourning family remained with their dead in the boyhood home Of the presi- dent they remained, silently watch ing. There was little demonstration of sorrow for the folk of this Yer mont hamlet do not wear their | hearts OH tnelr sleeves,
 Those accompanying tho presi- dent said he and his party would return 10 Woodstock after a brief stay in Plymouth.
 Funeral Tomorrow
 Major Coupal announced that the funeral would be held from the house at 2 o'clock tomorrow after noon. Rev. John White, Episcopal clergyman of Shelburne. will oifici- ate at the services. Burial will be in the little cemetery here where many members Of the Coolidge family were buried.
 Rev. Mr. White conducts Sunday afternoon services in the summer season at the union meeting house here where the colonel and his fam fly worshipped for many years. A few days ago the pastor visited Col. Coolidge, then sinking in his last ill., ness. Ncighbors had thought the funeral services would he in the little church with which the presidents father was associated so long.
 After an hours stay at his fathers home here, the president, accom- panied by Mrs. Coolidge returned to :. Woodstock. They planned to have . luncheon at the Woodstock Inn and ' to remain there for remainder of inc , day, probably not returning to Ply. mouth uni tomorrow.
 President Arranrcs Funeral " The decision 10 hold the funera services at the house instead of th, v church was taken, il was indicated S because of the presidents wishes. I ' was recalled that his stcpmothcr IT who died siv years ago. was burle, ,- from tho white farmhouse. MT. Coo l. lidgcs own mother lied while h
 was very young anu thn second Mrs "a Coolidge occupied q high place in hi r. affections,
 SC The clergyman, who was notiie
 last night Of Col. Coolidgcs death ar l. rived while the presidential part d was al tho farmhouse.
 m Dr. A. NJ Cram or Rridgevaic' D. tCol, Cnolidge's physician said todd $, The presidents father died of carri at noma with complications ot th d heart contributing. He describe
 the secondary cause Of death 2 ls nNocarditis. a disease Of inc hear Ia muscles. He made his announr,
 mcnt after ho had consulted wi,
 lpr, Coup2l. who on several occasion
 attended the colonel.
 he The first villagers to visit v et Coolidge homestead were Jol e. Wnier and his wife, an aunt of q ct president. Both or them old ar of crippled by rheumatism, th'
 waded through the snow 10 u on farmhouse that stands a stone he throw from their home at n
 crossroads.
 Ite Although slyighs and bebsle ce were used to cover nearly half ,r- the distance between Woodsto' sss and Plymouth the road was in fa ,e. condition throughout and it W To- considered likely that on the ne
 trip to this hamlet the preside ed would travel the whole route
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