Evening star., 1928-12-23
Cleveland Wedding Ceremony Was Unique White House Ev

and Right Rev. James E. Freeman.
BlSnop OF washington, of the Episcopal
Church. The body of the deceased
President was placed in the crvpt of
the Cathedral Of SIS. Peter. and Paul,
at Mount st. Alban.
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president HARDING was a Ban-
tist and was a regular attendant
az the Calvary Baptist Church. at
Elghth and H streets northwest.
throughout his administration. Mr..
Coolidge attends the First Congrega-
tional Church, at Tenth and G Streets
northwest. During the recent strength
enlng OF the roof the congregation was
forced to secure temporary quarters
elsewhere and for while worshipped
IN the Metropolitan Theater Building,
at Tenth and F streets. The congrega-
tlon has now returned to its old church
whlch was built especially for that de-
nomination and first used for religious
worship on May 10, 1868.
surely everybody knows by this time
tnat the President-elect is a Quaker:
but just what church he will attend is
q question yet to be decided. It NAV
De the Friends Meeting House on Eve
street. the one at Thirteenth and Irving
streets northwest, or the one at Sandy
Spring. 1t is said that there is no
church in Washington Of the exact.
sect to which Mr.. Hoover belongs, and
the seating accommodations of the
churches mentioned. and for other rea-
sons, leaves the exact place of worship
IN doubt. Naturally, however, this has
brought the Quaker churches here into
special prominence. particularly so the
old Friends Meeting House on Eye
street between Eighteenth and Nine
teenth streets northwest, erected in
1879, but which replaced an older
church dating back to 1903.
The deed to this property is dated
February 81, 1908, and the two lots pur-
chased were transferred to william
Morgan, Isaac Briggs, Gerard Brooke,
Samuel Lukens and Samuel Snowden,
as trustees. Work on the church was
Immediately begun, and in June, 1908,
here was solemnized the first marriage
by this society in this city 1t is said
that this church was formed principally
by the clerks of that persuasion who
had come from Philadelphia when the
seat Of Government was removed from
there.
Connected with this church in the
early days was plot of ground donated,
about 1909, by one of its members,
Jonathan Shoemaker. who died in 1887
and was buried in this little cemetery
This abandoned graveyard, for such
1t seems to be, is still carried on the
books of the District as church prop
erty. It is close by the Adams Mill
road entrance to the National ZoolcgiCal
Park, built up all around by apartment
houses and other structures, though It
still bears traces of its former use. 1t
is close to the colored cemetery, no
doubt recalled by many. which was re-
moved shortly after the Government
purchased the Geological Park tract.
D. N. Shoemaker informs the writer
that the plot is IN the shape Of a
rhomb. in the rear of 2630 Adams Mill
road: being 98 feet on the sides. Among
the families known to have been buried
there are the Shoemaker, Sewer. Scho-
field, Mcpherson and Janney families.
1t Is not listed in any Of the city di-
rectories, though as late as 1899 1t was
inclosed by post and rail fence. Few
individual burial records applying to
this cemetery are obtainable.