The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-11-03
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SATURDAY MORNING 49,. NOV. 3. 1860
General Jacksen's WHEELER Last Hours
Her Tomb.

s,saeral Jackson's Wheeler Last Hours
Her Tomb.
The new volume of Mr.. Parton's "Life of
Andrew Jackson" has the following account
of the death of the Generals wife:
On Monday evening", the evening before the
twenty.third, her disease appeared to take q
decided turn for the better, and sne men so
earnestly en- treated the General to prepare Tor
the fatigues of Il. morrow by having night OF
undisturbed sleep, that he consented AT tiast TO
90 into an adjoining room ana lie down on the
sofa The doctor was stu In the mouse. Hun
ran aud George were 20 sit up with thsir mis-
.ress Anime O'Clock the General bade her
good night went into the next room, and toeA
of mis- coat preparatory toying down. He had
been gone about five minutes; Mrs. Jackson,
was then, for the first time, removed from her
bed that it might be re-arranged for the night
While sitting IN chair, supper ted In the arms
of Hannah, she uttered long, loud, mar asu
late cry, which was Immediately iohowea "
u rafting noise in the throat hef neaa lei.
forward upon Hannah's shoulder she heNe-
spoke nor nreathed again: ... >shr.
Thare was A wild rush into the room VI nus
hand doctor relatives friends and servants
The }euer al assisted 10 lay her upon tne oeo'
.Rleed her :" he cried. No blood Moved rom
her arm TRY the ,en zen, pn ,ors fn,iowad o
II was long before he would believe her
dead He looked eagerly into hef lace, as II
stilI expecting To see signs OF returning lie
Her hands and feet grew cold. Ihere could
he no dou bt then, and they prepared table
for laying her out. With choking voice, the
General said:
"Spread four blankets upon it, If she does
come 10, she will lie so hard upon the table.
He SAT ali night long in the room by her side,
with his face in his hands, "grievlug." salo
Hannah. and occasionally looking into the face,
and feeling the heart and pulse OF the form So
dear 10 him. Major Lewis, who had been I'M
mediately sent tor, arrived Just before gay
light, auu found him still there, neatiy speech
leSs and wholly inoorsolable He sat IN the
room, nearly ali the next day, the picture OF
aespai,,. Ii was only with great difficulty mat
he was p,rsuaded 10 take a little coffee
and this was the way" concluded Han
nah That ol,, misns died and we always
saw mat when we lost her we lost misus and
a mother too; and more a another IMAM misus.
And We say the same OF ola master Tor De
was more a father 10 us than master, and
Iuany's the lime we've wished him oack again
10 help us out of our troubles"
The remains OF Mrs. Jackson still lie in the
corner OF the Hermitage garden, next those OF
her husband, in a tomb prepared by MIN IN
these years tor their reception. IL resetnoies
in appearance an open summer house--a small
while dome supported by pillars OF Whlt mar
BILE The table, tina. covers The remains OF
Mrs Jackson, read as follows:
Here lie tie remains OF Mrs. Rachel JACK
son wife 0. President Jackson, who died the
22d of December, 1873, aged 81. Her face was
fair her person pleasing, her temper amiable,
her neart kind; she delighted In renewing the
wants of her fellow -crea lures, ana cultivated
that divine pleasure by the most liberal and
unpretendmg ethods 10 the poor she was u
banefactor; TO the rich an example; to the
wretched Il comforter; 10 the prosperous III
ornament; her plety went hand In hand with
her heneyolence, aud she thanked her Creator
Tor being permitted TO do good. being SO
gentle ana SO virtuous, slanaer might wound
but could not dishonur. Even death, when he
tore her from the arms of her husband could
but transport her TO The bosom OF her God"