Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-10-26
WHEELING, VA, FRIDAY MORNING.
General JaeI<son,s w,re.
nERIAsruo6hs- ronn.


The new volume Mr.. Partou's "Lif.
of Andrew Jackson has the followiDc
account of the death of the Generals wife:
"en Monday evening, the evening be-
fore the twenty-third, her disease .nnesr.
cd to take decided turu, for the better.
and she then SO earnestly cutrea,cd tho
General to prepare for the fatirucs nF ,hs
morrow by having night of undisturl,s3
sleep, that he consented, ut last. to .r1
INTO an adjoining room and lie down uDon
SOFA. The doctot was still in the hOuse
hannah ana George were to sit up with
tneiF mistress. AT nine o'clock the Gem
er"l D"uc her good night, went into the
!S ne1t room, and took otfshis coat prepare.
tory TO lying down. He had been pone
ABOUT i've inmates; Mrs.tJacksou was then
tor the hrst time, removed from her bed
tnat til1 IT mlght'be re-arrauged for the NIGHT
W nlLe SlttlnG in chair, Supported in the
arms ms of Hannah, she uttered II longszff5iff1s
inartlculate cry; which was Immediately
followed by rattling noise in the throat
Her head tell forward upon Hannnh:s
shoulder. She never spoke nor breathed
again.
There was wild rush into the room
OF husband, doctor, relatives, friends and
servants The General assisted to Inv her
upon ;he bed. Bleed her. he cried. No
blood flowed from her arm. TRY the tenn
pie DOCTOR" Two drops stained her cap,
but no more followed. "P'
sit was long before he would believe her
dead. He looked eagerly into her face.
as II stlll expecting to see signs of return
ing life. Her hands and feet grew cold =
There could be no doubt. then. and tbor
prepared table for laying her out. with
F" choking voice. the General said:
"Spread four blankets upon it. IF she
table, >'''-A POl' Tue
''lIe sat all night long in the room by
her side With his face in his hands, 'griev
ing,' said Hannah, and occasionally looking
pulse S SC tie t6eTf fof Fad ST feeling the heart and
Lewis, who had been immediately Sc Major
arrived just before daylight, and found linn Tim
still there, nearly speechIess and wholly
inconsol"ble. He sat in the room nearly
all the next day, the picture of despair. 1t
was only with great difficulty that he was
persuaded to take little coffee.
'And this was the way concluded
Hannah, shat old mstus died; and we
always say that when we lost her we lost
nistus and mother too; and more a
mother than a mistus. And VIC say the
same of old master; for he was more
father to us than master, and many's the
time we've wished him back again, to help
US out ofour troubles
"The remains of Mrs. Jackson still lie
in the corner OF the Hermitage garden,
next those of her husband, in a tomb pre-
pared by him in these years fortheir recep-
ton. 1t resembles, i'll appearance, an
open summer house-a small white dome
S4npaE1ed RS"JGURE7s efi9'teitnlutfs OF hrs.
Jackson reads as follows.
''Here lie the remains of Mrs. Rachel
jackson, wife of President jackson, who
died the 22d Of December, 1928, aged 81.
Her face was fair; her person pleasing, her
temper amiablc, her heart kind; she de-
lighted in relieving the wants of her fellow
creatures, and cultivated that divine pleas
ure by the most liberal and unpretendiug
methods; to the poor she was benefactor;
to the rich an example; to the wretchcd
comforter; to the prosperous an ornament;
her piety went hand in hand with her be-
ncvolcnce, and she thanked her Creator
for being permitted to do good. A being
so gentle and SO virtuous. slander might
wound but could not dishouor Even
death, when he tore her from the arms of
her husband, could hut transport her to
the bosom of her God"