The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05
Mrs. Z. B. Hayes.


Mrs. Hayes maiden name was Lucy
Ware Webb. She was born the 2Sth
of August, 1881 at Chillicothe, Ohio,
and was the youngest child and only
daughter of DIR. James Webb and Ma
ria Cook. Her grandfather JudgA
Isaac Cook, who came from Conneoti-
cut in 1871 and all four of her great
grandfathers served in the Revolu-
tionary War.
Her father served in the war of
1912 and died during the cholera
scourge in Lexington, Ky, in 1888.
Her mother Maria Cook Webb was
woman of great force and character
and deep religious convictions. She
moved to Delaware, Ohio, to have her
sous educated at the .Ohio Wesleyan
University and her daughter received
the benefit of the same instructions
and afterwards was graduated at the
Wesleyan Female Seminary at Cincin-
natl in 1852.
She was married December 80, 1852
and at the breaking out of the war Of
ihe rebellion her family consisted Of
of her mother, her two brothers and
her four little boys. Her husband and
both of her brothers Immediately en-
tered the army and from that time un-
Jil the close of the war her home was
q refuge for wounded, sick and fur
loughed soldiers, going TO or return
ing from the front. She spent two
winters in camp with her husband In
Virginia and after the battle at South
Mountain, where he was badly wound
ed, she hastened East and Joined him
at Middletown, Md, and later spent
much time in the hospital near Fred
eriok City. After the close of the
war she accompanied her husband to
Washington, while he was a member
of Congress. She was one of the ori
ginators of the Ohio Soldiers snc
Sailors Orphan Home aud on it
Board of Directors prior to its adop
tion by the State. While her husbaut
was Governor of Ohio she took an &C
tive interest in all the charitable insti
tutions of the state. During the fou
years of her life at the White Hous
she was distinguished by graceful
cordialty with which she received al
who came to her.
Since the retirement of her husban
from public life she has been an al
IDENTIFY interested member of th
Woman's Relief Corps and has serve
during successive years as the pres
dent of the Woman's Home Mission
airy Society of the Methodist Episct
pal Church. She has been an homo
able member of the Society of th
Army of West Virginia, the medal
which had been presented to her b
the soldiers, whose loyal regard f,
her was an homage the most high
appreciated.
Mrs. Hayes well-known earncstne
OF conviction with regard to the su
ject OF temperance was inherited fro
her maternal grandfather The j
herent feeling was fostersd throug
out her schoolgirl days, both durlr
the six years of her education in Del
ware, while her two brothers were C,
lege students there, and later in Il
Wesleyan Female Seminary in Cinci
natl, where she completed her scho
course and was graduated. To b
deep and Unborn conviction it was h
nature to be true through all the G
Gums, snces of her life. This hi,
loyalty shaped simply aud natural
and therefore consistently through
her years, the ways of her home Ii
the manner of her hospitalties al
her custom in society while she NOV
through them all as the wife of a p
vate citizen and during the twer
years of her husbands pubic life as
Union general, member of Congre
Governor of her native state a
president of the United States.