Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1899 — BODY IS CREMATED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BODY IS CREMATED.

Remains of Col. Ingersoll Incinerated at Fresh Pond, L. I. The body of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll was cremated Thursday at Fresh Pond, L. I. The coffin was plain and covered with black cloth, having neither handles nor plate. It was only used to convey the remains from the house at Dobbs Ferry to the crematory. A special train was in readiness at the Dobbs Ferry sta-

tion, and there was a special train also on the Long Island Railroad. The mourners remained at Fresh Pond until the cremation was completed, when the widow carried the ashes back to the home in the cinerary urn selected for her by George Gray Barnard, the sculptor, who took the cast of Col. Ingersoll’s head after death.

FRESH POND CREMATORY.