Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-29
Death Of Mrs. Lucy Hayes.

| C,sc1sSAr1. June 25.-The Times Star
Fremont, O., special says that Mrs. Hayes
died this morning at half past six o'clock
after passing the night quietly. At eight
O'Clock last night she became much worse
and gradually sank until the hour OF hef
death.
| At the bedside were the members OF the
family, together with Mrs. Mitchell, OF Co
llumbus, a cousin of Gen. Hayes; Mrs.
Huntington, cousin of Mrs. Hayes; Lucy
Keller, Mrs. A. 81. Miller, and the physl-
clans. The funeral will take place FIJI
day.
Complete arrangements have not been
made. President L. D. McCabe, OF Della
ware university, will be officiating clergy
man. President McCabe oficiated at
their marriage and also at their silver
wedding anniversary. kilograms OF SYM
patty and coincidence are being received
from the people Of the country.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
| Mrs. Hayes maiden name was Lucy
Ware Webb. She was born August %,
1881, at Chilicothe, Ohio, and was the
youngest child and only daughter of DR..
James Webb and Maria Cook. Her
grandfather, Judge Isaac Cook, who
who came from Connecticut in 1871, and
all four of her great-grandfathers, served
in the revolutionary war; her father served
in the war of 1872, and died during the
cholera scourge in Lexington, KY, in 1882.
Her mother, Maria Cook Webb, was
woman ofgreat force Of character and deep
religious convictions. She removed to
Delaware to have her sons 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 Gin
cinnati, in 1852.
She was married December 20, 1852, and
at the breaking out of the war of the
rebellion her family consisted of her moth
or, two brothers and her four little boys.
Her husband and both of her brothers i'm
mediately entered the army land from that
time until the close of the war her home
was a refuge for the wounded, sick and
furloughed soldiers going to or returning
from the frontier. She spent two winters
in camp with her husband in Virginia,
and after the battle at South mountain,
where he was badly wounded, she fastened
east and joined him at Middletown, Nd,
and later spent much time in the hospital
near that city. Near the close Of tbs war
she accompanied her husband to Washing
ton while he was a member OF congress.
She was one of the originators of the Ohio
soldiers and sailors orphan home and OF
its board of directors prior to adoption
by the state. While her husband was
governor of Ohio she took an active inter
est in all the charitable institutions of the
state. During the four years of her life
at the White House she was distinguished
by the graceful cordiality with which she
she received all who came to her.
Since the retirement of her husband
from public life she has been an ardently
interested member of the Woman's Relief
Corps, and has served during successive
years as the president of the Woman's
Home Missionary society of the NJ. E.
church. She was an honorary member Of
the society of the Army of West Virginia,
the medal of which had been presented
to her by the soldiers whose loyal regard
for her and homage she most highly ap-
preciated.
MRS. HAYES AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 25.-The Star
gives short history of Mrs. Hayes life
while at the White House, from which
the follwing extracts are taken.
She was woman of education and re-
finement. She understood the art of en-
tertaining better than most women even
in high social positions do. She knew
how to make the greater and lesser alike
feel perfectly at home and enjoy them
selves when at her house. Few women
would have attempted what she did sue
cesslully, to entertain entirely without the
use of wines at the table.
The persons connected with the official
household of the president during the four
years of the Hayes administration were
all devoted to Mrs. Hayes, and the news
of her death has caused them much sor-
row.
Several of the present officials were at
the White House at that time, and their
recollection of her is coupled with warm
personal regard. Democrats and republic
cans-were often heard to give expression
to most extravagant compliments to her
grace as hostess. Senator Gordon, one
of the most ardent partisans the democrats
had in the senate, became one of her most
enthusiastic friends after meeting her at
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