Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-05
The Late nrs. Hawley.

The disease of which Mrs. Hawley, wife of United States Senator Hawley died, was pneumonia. Mrs Hawley was attacked 1 about two weeks since, but her physician
 and friends did not consider the case alarm ing. Finally, however, pneumonia was de- veloped, when the case became more seri- ous. A counsel of the ablest physicians was summoned, and they decided that the disease had reached a critical point and Tuesday night her physician remained with General Hawley all night by her bedside Wednesday there were symptoms of compl- cation that involved her heart, and she sank rapidly, the end coming at the early evening hour.
 Mrs. Hawley was of Puritan stock, born in Guilford, 8 daughter of Colonel George Foote and on the maternal side connected with the Wards and Beechers. She was of slight form and delicate organization, the in- tellectual element predominating over the physical and making her apparently unftted ts endure hardships. But she always took a keen interest in public affairs from the days of the free soil struggle until the war. Her patriotism intense and while her husband was in the field (going with her blessing in the first volun- teer regiment from the State for the three months campaign), she was earnestly laboring with other noble ladies of the State to help the soldiers in the field and to relieve the sick and wounded. But she would not be contented with home life while her imagi- nation pictured the need of woman's minis trations on the field, and in the fall of 1862 she joined her husband, then Colonel Flaw ley of the Seventh regiment, at Beaufort, s. c. From this time until the close of the war she remained in active service as hos pital visitor. Many 8 soldier now living will forever bless her memory, and the last hours of many were consolsd by her sweet minis trations.
 In July, 1865, Mrs. Hawley accompanied Hawley had been appointed chief of staff to Major General Terry. Their home was in the house deserted by Jefferson Davis after Appomattox. Here she enjoyed a restful summer and anticipated speedy return to home and peace. But in October, while re- turning home from the battlefield of Five Forks (where she had gone with all cle to find the grave of her son), the ambulance in which she rode was over turned and she received injuries to head and spine which made her an invalid for many years and from which she never fully recov- cred. Her sufferings for years were intense, but were borne with patient, unco1nplain- ing heroism characteristic of the noble life now ended.
 In her Hartford life, since the war, Mrs Hawley has been known taking a lively interest, so far as her impaired health would permit, in all social, literary and charitable work.
 During General Hawley's Washington life, as Representative and Senator, she has been his constant companion and helpmeet She frequently aided him in his correspondence and took especial interest in assisting worthy applicants for pensions. In social life at the national capital she made many friends and wes much beloved. She was always a repre- sentative New England woman of the highest type, highly intelligent, familiar with the affairs of State and nation, ardently patriot ic, and interested in every good cause. Her death is a loss to the State.
 The remains of Mrs. Hawley will leave Washington for Hartford to-day at $40. Senator PIatt, Representative John R. Buck and wife, Miss Kate Foote (Mrs. Hawley's sister,, and MT. E. K. Winship, formerly of Hartford, accompany Senator Hawley to the funeral. The train leaves at $40 a. m. and arrives in Hartford at 9:20 this evening. On Saturday forenoon the casket will be taken to Cedar Hill chapel, where simple exercises from MT. Bucks house will be held at 2:3O. It is probable the casket will be placed, for the present, in the receiving tomb.