Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-26
MFRS. HAYES, DEATH.
The Wife of an EX-Presttent
Quietly Passes into History.

FREMONT, Ohio, June 25.-Mrs. Have
died at 6 80 O'Clock this morning. The
funeral will take place Friday.
HER LAST HOURS.
Mrs. Hayes passed quiet night, sin k
ing gradually until the hour of her death
At the bedside we're members of the
family, together with Mrs. Mitchell, 6
cousin of General Hayes, Mrs. Hunting
ton, cousin of Mrs. Hayes, Lucy
Keeler, Mrs. A. H. Miller, and the
physicians.
FREMONT, o., June 25.-All night Ions
the sorrowing family watched round the
bedside. Mrs. Hayes lay motionless and
but for faint breathing and weak futter
ing of the pulse there was no signs ol
life. The watchers were waiting only
for the inevitable end, bowed with grief
and scarcely word was spoken the long
night through. The physicians Kept in
the background and the family were
alone with the loved one. In vain they
hoped for slight rally that might come
before death, 80 that she could recognise
and speak to them. AS morning dawned
the hold on life grew weaker and weaker,
and finally the spirit took it's flight.
In a voice choked with grief, the phys
ician announced that the end had come,
and the family's long vigil closed in
prostration and grief. General Hayes
and four grown sons, Burchard, Webb,
Reed and Scott, were deeply affected,
while Fannie was nearly prostrated with
grief and her long, sleepless watch at her
mothers bedside. The entire city is in
mourning and flags are at half mast.
kilograms of coincidence have been re-
ceived from many friends, among them
President and Mrs. Harrison.
fMrs Hayes maiden name was Lucy
Ware Webb. She was born August 2S,
1881, at Chillicothe, Ohio, being the
youngest child and only daughter Of
James Webb and Maria Cook, Her
grandfather, Judge Isaac Cook, came
from Connecticut in 1881, and all four of
her great-grandfather served in the rev.
olutionary war. Her father served in
the war of 1912. Mrs. Hayes was mar
ried December 80, 1852. At the breaking
out of the rebellion her husband entered
the army, and from that time until the
close OF the war, her home was a
refuge for the wounded, sick
and furloughed soldier going to
or returning 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
wounded, she hastened and joined him
at Middleton, Maryland, and later spent
much time in the hospital near Frederick
City.
During the four years of her life at the
White House, she was distin guished ,oy
the graceful cordiality with Which shs
received all who came. Since the retire.
ment of her husband from public life
she has been an ardently interested
member of the Woman's Relief Corpp
and has served during successive ye a 70
as President of the Woman's Home Mis-.
sionary Society of the Methodist TL:nisco.
pal Church,
The death of Mrs. Hayes "a received
with feelings OF genuine sorrow and
regret by the older en- >esoyees of the
White House, to whom she was endeared
by fond recoilections of her Kindness tc
tnem While she W. a mistress of the White
house. one U the older doorkeepers, in
speaking Oh her, said: "Mrs. Hayes
was a .sod kind woman, if ever
there was one. Everyone about
the '.shite House liked and loved her
sr 90 seemed to take notice of all those
around her, and she would often stop us
to make inquiries about how we were
getting along. I will always remember
Mrs. Hayes last reception. / never saw
such crowds. Women pressed in, and
would hardly move when they passed
through the lines, pleading for only one
more look, We had to close the door
when there were lots of people outside
and many went home disappointed be-
cause thew could not see her.