Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1919 — ROOSEVELT IS LAID TO REST [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT IS LAID TO REST

BRIEF PRAYER AND SCRIPTURE READING HELD IN LITTLE VILLAGE CHURCH. Oyster Bay, N. Y.,Jan.' 8. —Theodore Roosevelt lies at rest tonight beneath a cemetery knoll near the rambling rural highway along which he traveled so many times in boyhood and in manhood between the Sagamore Hill house which was his home and the quiet village of Oyster Bay. Perhaps no other exprdsident of the United States has been paid the tribute of so simple a funeral as the one which was given- Col. Roosevelt this afternoon on the shore of Long Island Sound. Military and naval honors were not his in death, only beeause it had been his wish and that of his family that the last rites be surrounded only with the simple dignity that might attend the passing of a private citizen. -But the American nation, and for- <»’ overnmeits as well, sent repafives, as did also the state and tie cicy in which he was born. These ,tedmen sat sorrowfully in the 2ws of little red-gabled Christ Episcopal Church, while brief services of prayer and scripture readings were held without a eubgy in which so much might have been said. There was no singing or organ playing. It was the noon hour when, at the Sagamore Hill homestead, all of Col. Roosevelt’s family, except two -of the sons, Lieut. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Lieut. Kermit Roosevelt, who are soldiers in Europe, assembled for a few moments of private prayer at the side of the casket in which lay the body. Draped over the casket were battle flags under which the Colonel fought as a Rough Rider on Cuban soil more than twenty years ago. Rev. Dr. George E. Talmage, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, said the comforting words which were the final ones spoken for the Colonel in the presence of Mrs. Roosevelt—for she did not accompany the cortege to the church or to the grave in Young’s Memorial Cemetery. At the Sagamore Hill services only members of the immediate Roosevelt family were present. The body of the lite President was then taken from the famous room of trophies which he had assembled from all ’ Quarters of the globe and was carried from Sagamore Hill on its final journey. Snow had come at dawn and had been falling steadily until the countryside was white, but the sun broke through the leaden clouds as the hearse left the Roosevelt estate and passed into the highway leading to Christ Church. Here, standing on the slippery hillocks, which are the lawns of some of the Colonel’s neighbors, were waiting townspeople. ' Because of the limited seating capacity of Christ Church, these villagers, to whom the Colonel had long been friend and neighbor, had not found admittance. They uncovered their heads as the casket was borne into the churdh and waited outside until services were over and the procession started for the cemetery. In the pews were men who are among the foremost of the country’s citizens. Vice President Thomas R. Marshall represented President Wfl-»‘ son. Gen. Peyton C. March, chief of staff of the army, and Admiral C. McR. Winslow represented the military and naval services and Secretary LanU the Cabinet. William Howard Taft, who, upon the Colonel’S" death, became the only Hying former president; > Charles- Evans Hughes, Elihu Robt, United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts; Maj. Gen; -Leonard Wood,