The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-27
MRS. HAYES DEAD
The Wife of Ex-President Hayes
Dies at Fremont, o.
Mrs. Sarah Jane WHEELING Was
Hanged For the
Murder of Her Husband and
Two Children.
Supposed to Have Drowned Her
SeIf---DiSaStrOus Fire.

FREMONT, Ohio, June 25.-Mrs.
Hayes died at $3.50 O'Clock this morn
ing. The funeral will take place Fri
day afternoon. Mrs. Hayes maiden
name was Lucy Ware Webb. She was
born on the 2Sth of August, 1881, at
Chillicothe. Ohio, and was the young
est child and only daughter of DIR.
James Webb and Maria Cook. Her
grandfather, Judge Isaac Cook, who
came from COnEecticutin- 1871, and all
four of her great grand fathers served
in the revolutionary war. Her father
served in the war of 1872, and and died
during the cholera scourge in Lex
ington, Kentucky, in 1888. Her mother,
Maria Cook Webb, was a woman of
great force of character, and deep re
IigiOus convictions. She removed to
Delaware to have her SONS educated at
the Ohio Wesleyan University and
her daughter received the ben
eft of the same instructions, and
afterwards was graduated at
Wesleyan female seminary at Cincinf
natl in 1852. She was married Decenf
Der 80, 1852, and at the breaking out of
the war of the rebellion her family con-
sisted of her mother, her two brothers
and her four little boys. Her husband
and both brothers Immediately en-
tered the army and from that time I'M
til the close of the war her
home was a refuge for wounded,
sick and furloughed soldiers,
going to or returning from the from
tier. She spent two winters in camp
with her husband in Virginia, and at
ter the battle of South Mountain,
where he was badly wounded. she has
tened east and joined him at Middle
town, Maryland, and later spent much
time in the hospital near that city.
Near the close of the war she accom-
panied her husband to Washington
while he was member of congress.
She was one of the originators of the
Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Or
phan home and on its
board of directors prior to its
adoption by the state. While her hus-
band was governor of Ohio, she took an
active interest in all the charitable in
situations of the state. During the
four years of her life at the white
| house, she was distinguished by
by the graceful cordiality with which
| 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 M. f. church, She was an honor
airy 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
appreciated.
| The Times Star Fremont Ohio. spec
iaI saws 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 gradually sank until the hour of
her death. At the bedside were the
members of the family together with
Mrs. Mitchell of Columbus cousin OF
Gen Hayes, Mrs. Huntington a cousin
of Mrs. Hayes, Lucy Keller, Mrs. A.
II. Miller and the physicians.