Taps is played at the conclusion of the wreath-laying ceremony. At right, members of the 29th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company G, with flag, and Robert D. Pollock, commander, the Ohio Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
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Christie Weininger, executive director of the facility, left, with brothers Burke Frost Hayes, center, and Webb Cook Hayes IV. Webb Hayes speaks briefly about the Christmas tradition at the Hayes home, in which he and his brother lived. They are great-great grandsons of Rutherford and Lucy Hayes.
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The United States Marine Band Brass Quintet performing music for the ceremony.
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Scott Russell Hayes, seated, points to the tombs of Rutherford and Lucy Hayes for his daughter, Rachel Elizabeth Hayes, 4, seated on his lap, before the wreath-laying ceremony. They live in Springfield, N.H. Rachel, the great-great-granddaughter of the general and Lucy Hayes, is holding a stuffed Siamese cat. Lucy Hayes is reputed to have been given the first Siamese cat in the U.S.
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Ambassador German Rojas at the wreath-laying ceremony. Hayes sided with Paraguay after the Triple Alliance War, forcing Brazil and Argentina to return land to Paraguay.
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Several hundred people, many of whom sat in the shade, listening to the program.
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"It's amazing the changes that have taken place. It's just so well-done," states Diane Evon of Perrysburg and Chagrin Falls. She is in a gallery discussing the Hayes' family's genealogy.
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Abraham Lincoln presenter Robert Brugler of Worthington, Ohio, enjoying ice cream at Spiegel Grove before the start of the program.
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Allison Clark, 2, is one of the younger great-great-great-grandchildren of Rutherford B. and Lucy Hayes, and, having come from Chatsworth, Calif., also one of the well-traveled.
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The gateway to the first presidential library in the U.S.
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Former executive director Roger Bridges, left, with Paraguayan Ambassador German Rojas, center, and Karen Bridges, Roger's wife.
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