Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-09-16
RICHMOND, FRIDAY, SEPT. I6, 1912.
DEATH AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

RICHMOND, FRIDAY, SEPT. l6, 1872.
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DEATH AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
Again Death has winged fatal shaft at the Palace
of the President. The first pierced the breast of a
President, and this has stricken down the consor Of
one All the ways Of Providence wise and just
We cannot but mourn, yet we must submit in humility
When our last paper went to press, Saturday eve
ningD We expected, before the day following and SO
intmated, that the consort of the Chief Magistrate
would be no more And so il was.
An obituary notice of Mrs. Tylers DEATH was insert
ed in the lnelligencer that paper being printed tue
succeeding evening.
A gloom seemed to pervade the city on Sunday An
expression of sorrow aud coincidence was observed on
most faces Party feelings were buried for the time
The Rector of ST. Johns Church (Dr. Hawley) an
nounced in feeling TERMS the sad event to his congre-
CATION during the morning service. The President
pew was hung in black, and tenantless.
Mrs Tyler was COMMUNICATE in the Episcopal
Church
Ala o'clock, p. NJ, on Monday, the funeral service
was read, and sermon preached, by DR.. Hawley, al
the Presidents Mansion, in the presence Of an immense
concourse Of citizens.
Flowers strewn the ber-ht emblems OF
fading mortality!
The mute grief Of the stricken Chief Magistrate
and his afflicted family, found sympathetic throb in
every bosom.
Never did we witness more impressive scene
Cabinet Ministers, Senators, and members without
distinction of party-the rich and the poor, ay, the
humbest always found ready access TO the departed
were there, and mourned with the bereuved family.
The President of the United States attended by Sc.
vera members Of his family, left the city this morning.
in attendance on the mortal remains of Mrs LetitIa
Tyler
Mrs TYLER was stricken with paralysis nearly four
years ago. The blow was extremely severe, and al.
though by the kind attention bestowed on her, under
The direction of able physicians she was placed in
condition Of comparative comfort, yet her frame
greatly shattered and her health rendered evermore
precarious. The loss Of her speech to great extent
of the unhappy effects OF this attack, while her
system was so much enfeebled TO render the seclu
sion Of her chamber ndispensaby necessary. She had
therefore forego to great extent, the enjoyment Of
those social circles which she had previously adorned
Her family have continually watched over her with the
greatest anxiety; and DR.. Thomas has been almost
a daily visitant al the Presidents mansion for many
months 1t was seen that her system gradually
giving way the cruel disease under which she labor
ed but no apprebensons Of early dissolution were
anticipated, until Friday, the 9th inst, when Dr. Sc
we'll called in as advising physician She CONT
nued thereafter rapidly to decline, until o'clock on
Saturday night when she breaihed her last, surrounded
by her sorrowing family and relatives.
Mrs Tylerwas the daughter Of Robert Christian OF
the county of New Kent, Virginia, who enjoyed, dur
iny long life, the confidence and esteem OF all who
knew him, and served for many years member of
the Virginia Legislature. She was born on the 18th
November, 1790-was married TO the President on the
Doth March, ISI3-became member OF the Protestant
Episcopal Church, in which she was baptiscd in early
infancy-and died in the SGD year Of her age Her
end was quiet and tranquil like one falling from weari
ness into prssrau:d slumber, exhibiting mind at rest
with itself and a heart Of virtue Indeed in LIFE, she
was in every respcct-as has been most truly remarked
in the Intelligencer-"A wife-a mother and chris
tian-loving and conidng TO her husband-gentle and
afectiopate TO her chldren-knd and charitable to the
needy and the afflicted In death she sleeps the sleep
of the righteous and the beloved of Heaven.
The President, after paying the last sad rites TO her
remains will we learn, pass few days with his daug-
ter Mrs Sempe, in the county of New Kent and then
take up his abode the Rip Rups for the purpose Of
seclusion and pose.
General Hunter, the Marshal Mr.. Fenda District
Attorney General Mason, Mr.. Mutt, General Eaton,
Major Dade, &C., will accompany the remains OF Mrs.
TYLER as pall.bearers. The Secretaries of Govern
men, and others, Will also attend lhe remains 70 VIZ
ginia-!Nadisonian.
4ddiional.-The remains of Mrs Tyler arrived IN the
Northern cars on Tuesday. They were accompanied
by President Tyler, his sons Judge Christian, MIR.
Inshur 1.-THE Secretary Of the Navy and other gentle
men from Washngio" roepeotabie number OF citl.
onc( among whom we recognized several Indies, the
Acting Governor and other gentlemen, wiihou, dis.
nction of partes) received the craped coffin at the de-
poi when the arrived, and followed the hease TO
the Powhatan House. As a tribute Of respect to the
lady of the Chief Magistrate Of the IT, S., the Capitol
bell and the bell of the LIST Presbyterian Church toed
during the afternoon. On Wednesday morning at
o'clock amid the tolls of the Capitol be the process
sion set for the family burial ground in the county
Of New Kent.
Thus, two events have happened in two years. which
! were unknown to annals In le4l, the President
of the u S. dies, and in 1912, The wife Of the Chief
Magistrate dies Mrs Jackson breathed her last before
Gen Jackson was installed into Office. Mrs Tyler is
the only wife Of Chief Magistrate who has died,
whilst he was in ofIice.-Enquircr.