Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1907 — AT REST IN THE MAUSOLEUM [ARTICLE]

AT REST IN THE MAUSOLEUM

Remains ofthe Late’President McKinley and His Wife Exhumed and > Put in New Caskets. Canton. 0.. Sept., 19. 1 —The new casket containing the remains of Mrs. McKinley now rests in a sarcophagus in the McKinley mausoleum on Monument hill. On guard at the tomb are United States regular soldiers. A half' mile distant to the south in the vault that has held the remains of President McKinley still rests the body of the late president, but in a new casket. Here, too, soldiers are on watch. The work of trausferringMhe remains of the McKinleys to the mausoleum was entrusted by the McKinley Memorial association to a Canton undertaker. The bodies were taken from the other casketswhich have held the president and wife since death and laid in the caskets especially constructed for the. mausoleum. The state of preservation of both bodies was pronounced remarkably good by the un- , dcrtaker and others who saw them. ) Today the casket containing the late president’s remains will be transferred. ' Later the remains of the two children will be exhumed and placed in niches in the mausoleum prepared for the caskets, thus uniting in a final resting place the entire family.