NEWS
scans from newspaper collection of
Ruth Adams-Battle

transcribed by Liz Stratton

The Final Funeral Ceremonies

    The Final Funeral Ceremonies. – The Cincinnati papers contain full and feeling notices of the solemnities attending the burial of the remains of the late President of the United States.  The body attended by the escort which left Washington with it, was upon its arrival at Cincinnati, deposited in the house of the son-in-law of the deceased, Col. Taylor; and on the morning of the 7th inst., was carried to its final resting place in the vault prepared for it at North Bend.  The city of Cincinnati seemed to have turned out almost its entire population on the occasion, and that too, spontaneously, without any formal invitation, and without the slightest organization of effort to give grandeur or eclat to the solemnity of the scene.  All parties, all classes, and descriptions of people not only from the city but from the surrounding country joined in the imposing demonstration of grief.  A little band of some forty or fifty veteran soldiers – the gallant men who had followed their general to the battle and to victory, gathered around his bier and followed it to the grave.  It must have been one of the most touching spectacles ever witnessed in the country. – Cour. & Enq.

   Three crowded steamboats accompanied the remains from Cincinnati to North Bend.  The burial place is a sort of mound, separated from the hill by ravines, about a hundred yards back from the river, and elevated above it some fifty or sixty feet.  The river here makes a curve and from a great distance above and below, the stranger who shall pass on the stream of the Ohio, may view in the distance the TOMB OF HARRISON.

   The services at the grave were performed jointly by Dr. Wilson and Mr. Brooke.  The body was deposited in a vault, there to await the last trumpet call.