Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08

gladnesS and rejoicing should more appropriate
ly have been expected and looked for. There
are many living who recall this sad event.
around which many stories might be written
for there is always something new to be said
about Lincoln, but this may be taken up later
Mrs. Grants father, Col. Frederick Tracy
Dent a native of Cumberland, Md, was the
next to be buried from the White House, he
having passed away on December Is, 1873.
Garfield, who died September 10, 1881, was
not buried from the Executive Mansion, his
remains having been taken direct from the
train to the Capitol and from there to his last
resting place in Ohio
Then followed the horror of the Tracy fire
at 1884 I street northwest, in which Mrs. Tracy
and Miss Mary Tracy wife and daughter of the
Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin F. Tracy, per-
iShed, and the Secretary himself had q very
narrow escape. They were also buried from
the famous East Room, as was Mrs. Caroline
Scott Harrison, wife of the President, who died
In the White House on october IS, 1892 only
to be followed a month and four days later by
DR.. John w. Scott, father-in-law of President
Harrison.
Secretary of State Walter @. Gresham was
the next to be buried from the Presidents
house. He died May %. 1895, and his funeral
services were held in the East Room. He was
buried on the slope in front of Arlington Man.
Sion,, and his grave overlooks the Capital City.
Following this came another extremely sad
event in the tragic death of President William
N. Y, on September 6, 1901, by the hand of
an assassin, and died on the 14th day of that
month. His remains were brought back to
Washington on the evening of the 10th, via
the Pennsylvania Railroad arriving here at
8:37 o'clock, and Immediately taken to the
White House.
At 10 O'Clock that night Mrs Mckinley ex-
pressed desire to view the body of her de-
ceased husband, and she was assisted to the
East Room, where the casket was opened for
this purpose, after which she bravely retired
for the night, and the next morning the re-
mains were conveyed to the Capitol, where pub
lie services were held, after which they were
conveyed to his old home, Canton. Ohio.
Mrs. Ellen Louise (AxSon) Wilson, first wife
of President woodrow Wilson, died in the
White House on August 7, 1914 and from there
her funeral took place. She was noted for her
noble character and charitable works.
No doubt the reader is quite familiar with
the more recent funeral from the White House,
that of President Harding, whose body was
borne from there to the Capitol on August 8,
1928 to be followed by the services over the
body of Mrs Laura M. Work, wife of the Sec
rotary of the Interior, on May IL, 1924.
Then came, within two months. that of Cal
vim Coolidge, jr., who died at Walter Reed Hos
pital on July T. Two days later simple funeral
services were held in the East Room of the
White House prior to taking the body to
Northampton, Mass, for interment.
Another funeral to take place from the East
Room in 1924 was that of Henry c. Wallace,
Secretary of Agriculture who died on october
25, and whose funeral occurred two days later.
These are probably all of the funerals which
have taken place from the White House, and
they show that, no matter what station
in life may be- sooner or later the Grim Reaper
Is bound to beckon us home.