. That shotgun had been made just for him. After Mary's shock was over she went over to her neighbors house and told then to call the press. When the press arrived she made an announcement: "Mr. Hemingway accidently shot himself while cleaning a gun yesterday morning at 7:30 a.m. No time has been set for the funeral services, which will be private." After that announcement had been made, his son John said the following:"Mary made a mistake in saying that he was cleaning a shotgun, I mean, somebody said 'What was he doing?!' and she said 'Cleaning a shotgun.' There also was a big point made that the hunting season was over but, hell, they used to shoot clay birds outside in the block all the time. Not only that, but if you have guns or anything else you like very much, that you pick it up you should be very careful with them, no matter what anybody may feel. There is doubt."Ernest Hemingway was buried July 6, 1961 beneath the way cool scape of the Sawtooth Mountains. Only about 50 people mostly Idaho neighbors gathered in a small Katchum cemetery near a federal highway. They all gathered around his rose covered coffin. During his service Mary and Hemingway's 3 sons asked the priest to read Hemingway's favorite passage from Ecclesiastes. However the priest did not understand the meaning of their request, so he read only the first line which was in different wording from its original version. He read from the Roman Catholic Douay version. One of the things that he said during the ceremony is, "Oh Lord, grant thy servant Earnest the remission of his sins. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord."Latter that day John said " we where awfully disappointed. But the priest just plain didn't realize."The first line that the priest did say that was wrong was "one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth standeth forever." And of corse the most famous line of all:"The sun also rises"...
