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Buried. The ashes of Col. Robert Green Ingersoll, famed agnostic who died in 1899, and Mrs. Ingersoll; in Arlington National Cemetery; transferred after 33 years from the mantel piece of Daughter Maud R. Ingersoll Probasco's New York apartment. He served in the Civil War with the 11th Illinois Cavalry. In a funeral oration he once said: "We know not whether the grave is the end of this life or the door to another; whether if this existence is our night time there is not somewhere else a dawn. Every cradle asks us 'Whence?' And every coffin...
Died. Mrs. Roberta Ingersoll, wife of Robert H. Ingersoll (watches); in her Manhattan apartment; instantly, of revolver shot. Nearby, wounded, lay Wallace McClean Probasco, 52, son-in-law of Atheist "Bob" Ingersoll, but not related to the deceased woman. The weapon lay near Probasco...