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Show - - . J. P. Morgan's Body Rests In Family Mausoleum, Hartford, ConnI Where Great Financier Was Born. ay' ynfe--"'M.''' I' imi mi t &StLjJ 1913, oy American l-icds Aueiiu.un Tho body ot J. Plcrpont Morgmi, tho great Amorlcim lliimiuler, who tlU-il ivcontly ut Roiuo, Italy, now rests at tho Morgnu (ninlly tomb in Cedar Hlllcemotery, Hartford, Conn., where aronlso burlcil tho boil leu of Mr. Morgan' grandparents, his father and mother and a brqtller who died In bis youth. The upper Illustration here shows tho great gravestone of polished red granite and, to tho right of It. n cross shaped tent which was erected to shield the mourn era from the gn-o of curious persons who gathered outsldo tho police Hues when tho body wus Inld to rest. In the lower lljustratlon nro shown tho pallbearers carrying the colllu down the steps of the grcnt library of the Morgan home In.'New York city. Mr. Morgan's funeral took place at St George's church, New York, of which Ifco wan senltv warden';. Tho body was taken to Hartford ln a special car. Mr. Morgan was born nt Hartford, and business then1 virtually was suspended whllo the funeral procession pnssed through tho streets nnd the Interment took plnre. |