The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-31
DEATH OF GEN. GRANT.

MOUNT MCGREGoR, July 23-Gen. Grant
breathed his last at sos H. M, surrounded
by all the immediate members of his family
AID Drs. Sands, Shrady and Douglas. The
general maintained his CONSCIOUSNESS to the
very last. A few minutes before 5 o'clock
Drs. Douglas, Shrady and Sands stood on the
cottage yeranda, Conversing on the condition
OF Gen. Grant, and discussing the prObaDili-
Ties III his death and the limit of life left the
sick man. Mrs. SartOris and StcuOgraphcr
Dawson were Conversing a little distance
away when Henry, the nurse, stepped hastily
upon the piazza and spoke quietly to the
physicians. lie told them he thOughE the
general was very near to death. The med
iCal men hastily entered the room where the
sick man was lying and approached his side.
Instantly upon seeing the patients face DR..
douglas ordered the family 20 he summoned
to the bedside. Haste was made, and Mrs.
Grant, Mr.. Jesse Grant and wife. I. $ Grant,
j., and wife and Mrs Col. Grant were
quickly beside the doctors at the sick mans
cot, and Mrs. Sartoris and Mr.. Dawson had
followed the doctors in from the piazza, and
the entire family was present
AT THE BEDSIDE.
Col. Grant seated himself at the head of
the bed with his left arm resting upon the
pillow above the head of the general, who
was breathing rapidly, and with slightly
gasping respirations. Mrs. Grant, calm, but
with intense agitation bravely suppressed,
took a seat close by the bedside. She leaned
slightly upon the colonel, resting upon her
right elbow, and gazed, with tear-staincd
eyes, into the generals face. She found
there, however, no token of recognition. for
the sick man was peacefully and palnlessly
passing into another life. Mrs. Sartoris came
behind her mother, and leaning over her
shoulder, she witnessed the close of a life in
which she had constituted a strong element
of pride. Directly behind Mrs. Grant and
Mrs Sartoris, and q little distance removed,
stood doctors Douglas, Shrady and Sands
as spectators Of q closing life their
efforts and counsel had so prolonged
On the opposite side of the bed from his
mother and directly before her stood Jesse
Grant and U. S. Grant, Jr. and near the cor
ner of the cot, on the same side as Jesse and
near to each, was \. E. Dawson, the generals
stenographer and confidential secretary. At
the foot of the bed, and gazing directly down
INTO the generals face, was Mrs. Col. Fred
Grant and Mrs. u. S. Grant, Jr., and Mrs.
Jesse Grant, while somewhat removed from
the family circle, Henry, the nurse, and
Harrison TyreH, the generals body servant,
were respectively watching the closing life
of their patient, their master. DR.. Newman
had repaired to the hotel for breakfast and
was not present The generals little grand
children, U. s Grant, Jr, and Nellie, were
sleeping the sleep of childhood IN the
nursery room above. Otherwise the en-
tire family and household were gath
cred at the bedside of the dying man.
SUMMONED JUST IN TIME
The members Of the group had been sum-
moned not q moment sooner than was
prudent The doctors poted, on entering
the room and pressing to the bedside, that
already the purplish tinge which was one of
natures signals of final dissolution had
settled beneath the finger nails The hand
that DR.. Douglas lifted was fast growing
colder than it had been through the night.
The pulse had tiuttered beyond the point
where the physician could distinguish it
from the pulse beat in his own finger tips.
The respiration was very rapid and was a
succession of shallow painting limitations,
but toward the close they became less labored
and almost noiseless. This fact was in its
result a comfort to the watchers by the bed
side to whom was spared the scene of an
agonizing or otherwise than a peaceful
death. The wife almost constantly stroked
the face, forehead aud hands OF the dying
general, and at times, as the passionate long
ing TO prevent the event so near would rise
within her. Mrs. Grant pressed both his
hands and leaning forward tenderIy kissed
the face of the sinking man. Col. Fred
Grant sa silently, but with evident feeling,
though his bearing was that of a soldierly
son at the deathbed of a hero father. q. s.
Grant. Jr, was deeply moved, but Jesse bore
the scene steadily, and the ladies, while
watching with wet cheeks, were silent as
beiitted the dignity Of a life such as was clos
ing before them. The morning had passed
five minutes beyond ) O'Clock and there was
not one Of
TEE sTRArSED I'M WAITING WATCHERS
but who could mark the nearness of the life
to its final cbbing. DR.. Douglas noted
the nearness Of the supreme moment and
quietly approached the bedside and bent
above it, and while he did so the sorrow Of
the gray-haired physician seemed closely
allied with that of the family. Dr. Shrady
also drew near. 1t was seven minutes after
8 O'Clock and the eyes of the general were
His breathing grew more hushed
as the last functions OF the heart and lungs
we're hastened to the closing Of the ex-presi-
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be deepening in the firm and strengthened
face, and it was reflected as a closing conn
fort In the sad hearts that beat quickly under
the stress of loving suspense. Aminute more
passed and was closing as the general drewa
deeper breath. There was an exhalaticn
like that Of one relieved Of long and anxious
tension. The members OF the group were
impeIIed each TO step nearer the bed. and
oanh x0offa1S FL mite rho newt yxArufyatfnp /
bnt it did not come then; it never came.
There was absolute stiffness In the room
and q hush of expectant surprise. No sound
the pines outside the cottage ana the meas