Smyrna times., 1872-11-06
The Death Of Mrs. Greeley.

After ten years of almost unremitted sickness -
and pain Mrs. Horace Greeley died Wednes- j
day morning. For two week her death had !,
been hourly expected. Her chronic disease .
had assumed dropsical tendency, and the :
consumption of so many years had otherwise ,
given evidence of the general breaking up of :
what was lett of life. She made a trip to =
Nassau, in company with Mr. Greeley and !
their daughter, about four years ago for her
health, but the air there failed to do her any
good. Again, last year, She went with her c
two daughters to Europe aud sought recupera-
tion in the balmy air of Southern Italy; but,
while the. climate benefited her, it failed to
eradicate the disease which had seized upon
her. She returned with her daughters from
Europe in june last, and stated that no air
was so balmy to her and no water so sweet as
the air and water of Chappaqua. She re-
malned in this city for some weeks after her
return, too unwell to be removed to Chappaqua,
and, as an instance of her tondneSs for the |
water of that 'pecrlesS" spring, Mr.. Greeley !
was constrained to have jugs oi the pure water
itself brought into her from the farm She was
! finally removed to her " House it the Woods"
and there passed the heat of the summer,
which in her case was doubtless aggravated by
the even greater heat Of the political canvass.
She remained here confined to her bed almost
continually, varying her life only by visits to
her friends at Tarrytown, where the breeze
was stronger than at Chappaqua, On one
other occasion she ven;ured to rise from her
bed and take carriage ride i'll the open air
when the members of the Democratic National
Committee, among whom were number of
ex-rebel chieftains, called upon Mr. Greeley
after rendering him the nomination at Balti
more, and picniced under the evergreens. She
q then said that nothing could prevent her
! shaking hands with those lifelong enemies of
p. her husband, who had now become such de-
/ voted friends, 'for," said she, Il hardly
: hoped to see such Millennium She was
!, even then pale and exhausted, her skin was
n almost transparent in its whiteness, and her
;S dark eyes seemed to burn with htful light.
# She was compelled to recline i'll the carriage
r covered with shawls, and her friend
, Mrs. Stuart who closely attended her through
NJ her sickness to her death, had continually t
warn her against the voiubility other tongue ant
if her prolonged stay in the open air. In Angus
ot she vcntured to the seaside at Fire Island
IL but the weather proved stormy and bOisterOu,
nm and Mr.. Greeley was compelled to return wit
re her to New York. During the transit vioen
he rain storm overlook them, and its etfeC
m. my have aggravated her disease At any rat
ca on returning to Chappaqua she found herSe
90 growing so much worse that at her urgent IT
he quest she was removed to New York. Her
,er at the residence of Mr. Alvin J. johnson, G
NJ. Fifty seventh street, she fingered in agon
he sinking perceptlbly until Wednesday morning
!, is when, at four clock, she quietly and peac
ve fully breathed her last
4 Mr. Greeley and his daughter Ida, MI
,an Lamson, an old friend of the family; Nj
IF Stuart, and Mr. and Mrs Johnson were at h
wn bedside as she died For days her voice h
he been inaudible, and even her sick cough cou
,Iso not be heard across the room, and her |
not ended without any further sign than the hare
hon perceptbe thrOes that accompany the death
,mc those long exhausted by disease.
nce The kind friends that had attended
the through her ten years of suffering took cha
God of her rem iins, and by noon they were laid {
me in the parlOr, bedecked in a white robe,
joSs hands casped across the breast, while
nv kindly offerings of friends had already bestrev
do the corpse with flowers.
man On Friday the funeral took place from
ated residence of Mr. johnson, the sermon be
m y preached by DIR. Chaplin.
,ada Mrs Greeleys maiden name was Mary
with Cheney, and she was born in this city.
ndg. only relative is a brother living in COnnectiC
,;nG Mr.. Greeley first met her at the Gral
n r House, an institution erected in New 1Ork
fall Professor Graham, the originator of the bl
q do bread dietetic philosophy, and conducted
onld those very frugal principles. Miss Cheney
He at that time schoOteacher, an arc
with believer in vegetable and bran-bread syst
.r all anG great searcner alter the knO"lcug
thee books Mr.. Greeley was investigating the
mble philosophy, and thus formed an acquainta
ether Whicn rlpeneu INTO Hle-IohS aHcc'lon;;
no." StuTdliy pressed ms SuIt 10 success, aItho
know nc nc hSu 10 i0no" Tue opJGc' vi MS anec'lo"
nents Nor'n Oar9i!"a' "nero sue wc,'' ~ Pui9u1
onrs the NeD Yorker, which Re edited, conta
oIso the following marriage notice at the end
,phet long SUING Oh similar auV+[''Sehen'S; =,
which In Immsnue church, Warrenton, n G.
srael, Tuesday morning, 5th inst, by Rev. Viii
IF the Norwood, Mr.. Horace Greeley editor OF
ms of New Yorker, to Miss Mary g. Cheney
EN-. Warrenton, formerly OF this CITY,
peO- Seven children blessed the marriage
cunt whom two alone remain-Ida aud Gabriel
ich is ~ y Herald