Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-07-20
Death of Mrs. Lincoln.
SHE PASSED AWAY SUNDAY NIGHT.

She PASSED AWAY SUNDAY NIGHT.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, July 17.-Mrs. Alb
raham Lincoln, the wife OF the mar
tyred president, was attacked with par
alytlc symptoms on Saturday evening.
and has been gradually sinking ever
since. Her attending physician says
she cannot last many hOnrs. Since
her return from New York CITY. she
has been making her home at the resi-
dence of her sister, Mrs. Ninian Ed
wards, and living in O. state of ex-
elusive retirement. She rarely left
her room, and seldom went out of
doors. For several weeks past she has
been suffering with boils, which almost
covered her person. These, it is
thought, caused such state of nervous
irritation as to bring about paralysis
from the bursting of blood vessel up-
on the brain, which occurred +ljn-osrln
nlhg' and a;o,,s ol;;o until her death, and
ed uhcoll'otoo other world peacefully
ans without struggle. Anxious rela-
tives and friends watched at the bed
side expecting her death mOmentarilv,
lovingly attending to her wants, but in
her unconscious state she could give
them no sign of recognition. Her death
will cause universal mourning, for as the
wife of President Lincoln, she was
held in sort of veneration by the peo-
pie. The Hon. Robert T. Lincoln,
secretary of war, has been advised of
his mothers death, and telegraphs that
he will leave Washington tonight and
arrive here Tuesday morning. Mr..
Lincoln was telegraphed the morning
of the expected death, and has been
kept informed during the day. 1t was
not believed until yesterday afternoon
that this sad end would be result OF
this sickness, for yesterday morning
Mrs. Lincoln had expressed a deter
mination to
GO TO SOME WATERING PLACE
as soon as she was able. In the after
noon her symptoms became more
alarming, and she Informed her
friends that she was dying. After
wards she passed into comatose state
from which she did not recover.
Mrs. Lincoln, whose maiden name
was Mary Todd, was born in Lexing-
ton, KY, in December, 1918. Her re-
latives coming to this city to live, she
came here in 1889, and here she was
married Nov. 2, 1912, to Abraham
Lincoln, the marriage ceremony being
performed at the resid ence of her
hrother-in- the Hon. n. w. Ed
wards, in whose house sne has Just
died. Some years afterward Mr.. and
Mrs. Lincoln took up their residence
IN two-story frame house at the cor
ner of jackson and Eighth streets,
where they lived until Mr.. Lincoln's
election TO the presidency,
in 1860. Removing with
him to Washington, she shared with
him the trials Of war, and when he was
stricken down by an assassin at her
side in FOrd's theater, her mind re-
ceived shock that left it considerably
impaired. 1t was this shock that led
! to the
DISPLAY OF MANY ECCENTRICITIES,
and which caused her friends to Sc
cure treatment for her in priVat re-
treat at Batavia, some years ago. In
the fall after the assassination, Mrs.
Lincoln moved to Chicago, where she
comfortably resided IN her own resi-
| uSICt. que IIfGO IIlClC bOIh bCiOA Q
and after her retirement to Batavia,
! from which retreat she was taken after
her mind was considerably improved.
In the summer of 1876, Mrs. Lincoln
went to Europe and resided nearly
four years at Pau, a celebrated water
ing place in the south part of France.
There she received fall which injured
her spine and considerably added to
her troubles. Returning to America in
1880 she arrived in this city early in
November of that year, and resided at
the home of the Hon. n.
W. Edwards until the fall OF
1881. when she went to New York and
received treatment for all affection of
the eye and diabetes. It was during
that time that Mrs LincoIn's financial
matters were SO widely discussed, which
discussion led to the increase of her
pension to $1,000 annually by congress.
On the Oath of last March, Mrs. Lin.
coin again came to this city. Here she
lived in
COMPLETE RETIREMENT,
seeing only a few friends, confined tc
her room, and unable to take exercise
She has suffered considerably, and this
coupled with her almost py@mic con.