Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-10-06

Winthrop, where there is now mural
tablet, epeeted at the instance of Hon.
Sam. Hooper, which bears the following
written by Charles Sumner.
There is bust of the illustrious de-
ceased, and beneath il is inscribed:
John Quincy Adams, who, after fifty
years of public service, the last sixteen
in yonder hgll, was summoned hence, to
die in this room, 23d February, 1S4S."
ANDREW JACKSON
Died at the Hermitage" his estate near
Nashville, Tenn, of consumption and
dropsy, on the Sth of June, 1915, aged
seventy-eight. His death-bed was sur
rounded by his relatives and slaves, and
two days afterward he was laid in the.
grave by the side of his wife, OF whom
he had said, not long before he died:
Heaven will be no heaven to me if do
not meet my wife there"
MARTIN VAN BUREN
Died of diseases incident to all age, at
his estate, "Lindenwald." about ten.
miles from KinderhOOk, New York, in
the eighty-first year of his age. His re-
mains were brought to Undertook. The
Reformed Dutch Church there, which
he had attended. and they were then ta :
ken to the rural cemetery on the out
skirts of the village for interment.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
Was inaugurated on the 4th of March
lS4I, and died on the 4th of April fol-
lowing, of pneumonia, with congestion
of the liver, having been literally wOr-
ried to death by otfice-seskers and pOliti-
vices of the Episcopal Church were per-
formed over the remains in the East
Room of the White House.
.-..i..f fI JOHN TYLER
Died on. the 18th of January, 1852. In tue
seyenty-third year Of his age. at Rich,
mond. Va. where he had gone to take
his seat as y Representative from Vir-
ginla In the first Congress of the Con-
federate States. -t 90
/ JAMES KNOX. POLK
Died about three months after the expi-
ration of his Presidential term, at his
home in Nashville, Tenn. He was in
TERED with Masonic honOrs.
- '' ZACHARY TAYLOR
Was inaugurated on the 4th of March,
1849, and was in his usual robust health
when he attended the 4th of July exer-
elses the following year, at the Wash
ington Monument, and after having
been exposed nearly two hours to heat
of unusual intensity, lunched heartily on
milk and cucumbers. That night he
was taken i'll, and ON the evening of
July o, 1850, he breathed his last, aged
sixty-six. The funeral service of the
Episcopal Church WAS performed over
his remains in the East Room of the
White House.
WILLARD FILLMORE
Experienced stroke of paralysis on the
18th of February, 1874, at his home at
Buffalo, and he died there on the Sth of
March following, in the seVenty-fifth
year of his age.
FRANKLIN PIERCE, Ff
Left lonely and desolate by the death Of
his children, his wife, and his friend
Hawthorne, and by the secession of
many of his political friends, died rather
Unexpectedly at the house of Mr.. viii
liams, where he boarded, at Concord, n.
H., on the Sth of October, 1859, aged six
ty-five He was buried on the following
Monday, October IL.
JAMES BUCHANAN
Died at "Wheatlands," his rural home,
near Lancaster, Pa, of pleuro-pneumo
MIA, June 1, 1865, aged seventy-seveB.
His funeral was, as he had requested,
without pomp or display.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Was shot by John Wilkes Booth in
Ford's TheaUeri at Washington on the
evening of April IA, 1865, and taken to
the house of Mr.. Peterson on the oppo
site side of the street, where he died at
twenty minutes past seven the next
morning. After an autopsy had been
made the remains were taken to the
White House. where they were embalm-
ed The funeral services were perform
ed on Wednesday, the 10Th of April. in
the East Room of the White House.
ANDREW JOHNSON,
Who was at that time United States
Senator, having been elected after he
left the Presidential chair. was stricken
with paralysis on the 29th of July, 1875.
at the house of his daughter, Mrs. Brown,
in Carter County, Tennessee. and he
died there on the morning of the 31st in
the sixty-seventh yoar of his age.