Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-07
DEATHOF ANDREW JOHNSON.

Ex.President Andrew johnson died at
. 30 A. NJ, Saturday last, 3lst of July, at
tbe residence of his daughter, Mrs. w. II.
Rrown in Carter county, East Tennessee.
Ono of his last wishes was that his wind
ing-sbeet should be the flag of his country.
A snecial TO Nashville papers from Green
VILE dated seven o'clock, Saturday night,
says: ~, 90 no,.lvs;s and
h..rt disease. He had been complaining
somewhat of ill-health during the past
month. but felt no serious apprehehsions.
last "Wednesday he took the morning
train to visit his daughter, with WHOM
Mrs. Johnson had been solournlhg ioI
the past six weeks, He rode III haoN
from Carriers depot to her residence, soh's
six miles distant, and seemed In g0oo
shirts on his arrival and ate hearty jim,
ner. and after Il few minutes OF general
conversation retired up stairs anu CON
yersed with his granddaughter, MISS
Iillie Stoyer. While thus engaged MS
tongue refused utterance, and TO her great
CONSERVATION he fell from his seat To the
floor. Help was instantly summoned anu
almost as soon As raised he expressed IN
distinctly, however, that his right side
Was paralyzed.
After being taken to bed, when the
family spoke of sending for physician,
he forbadesit, saying thai he would soon
recover. On this accOurtthe summonlng
of medical aid was deferred 'twenty-iour
hours. when DIR. lobe MAS called from
Elizabethtown, two miles distant. lie ELM
stantly began heroric treatment, aided by
DIR. Cameron, and seemed 1t one time the
next day TO be succeeding. The patient
conversed imperfectly in regard to domes-
tic matters, and did not seem conscious oil
approaching dissolution, but his case was
beyond the skill of physicians, and at
seven o'clock Friday night he became I'M
conscious. Mrs. Patterson and Andrew
johnson, Jr., arrived an hour later with
wophysicians from Greenville, Drs. Brey
and Taylor, but he did not recognize any
of them, and after seven hours AMI hall
of unconsciousness he peacefully breathei
his last, surrounded by his wife, children
and all his grandchildren, except the son
and daughter of ex-senator Patterson.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
The Cincinnati Gazette's Greenvillc
special contains the following:
lie had been in rather bad health since
the adjournment of the last session Of
Congress, but nothing serious was antici-.
pated. On "Wednesday morning he left
on the train for Carriers station, and from
thence he went OH horseback 10 his daugh-
ter's residence, about seven miles, riding
in the hot sun. On arriving there he
felt very fatigued, and the same afternoon
about L: o'clock, his right side Was para
lyzed, rendering him speeches.. His
wife was with him ut the time His son
Frank and his daughter, Mrs. Patterson,
t..sfs all
on Thursday. On Thursday, about noon
he became conscious and had q partial use
of his body, but it was evident that the
great commoner could not live long, and
thus surrounded by his entire family and
neighboring friends he yielded up the
ghost about 2 o'clock this morning. The
! excitement here aud 1T Knoxville IL in
tense.
THE FUNERAL.-The remains Of EX-
President johnson were inferred ut Green
Vile, on Tuesday last. About five thou
sand persons were present. The process
sion was formed and marched to the grave
under charge of the marshal and assistants
in the following order: johnson Guards !;
Patrons of Husbandry; Odd Fellows;
Dickinson Guards, Of Knoxville Masonic
Lodges and Chapters; the hearse bearing
body, with pall-bearers attending and
Kni ght Tcmplar as guard of honor; family
I'm carriages; Governor Porter and other
State officers and distinguished guests !;
members Of the press, and lastly citizens
OH foot and horseback. Coverings for
hearse horses were adorned with varied
Masonic insignia. Among the distin-
guished visitors were Judges Mcfarland,
1rigg and Chancellor Key, Congressman
Mcfarland, Thurnburg and Crutchfeld.
The grave is on hill half mile south
west of town. in view and OH the left Of
the railroad as you go to Knoxville. The
procession was arranged in double circle
around the grave, leaving an open space Of
about two hundred feet i'm diameter, in
closing the family; Knoxville Comman-
derry, Knoxville Glee Club and Governor
and other distinguished visitors.
Personal friends of the ex-President say
| that his opinions rs to the life hereafter
were not ut all fixed. While resident in
Washington lie WAS quite constant i'm his
attendance OH church services, leaning
entirely to those conducted by the Metho-
dist and Lutheran denominations, but il IL
alleged by those who knew him best that
whatever religious beliefs he entertained
Appropriated more closely to the doc
trines and theories of Emanuel Sweden
borg than of any other expOundcr of faith.