Connecticut western news., 1889-07-03

one Passes Away Quietly, Surround
 ed by Her Family and Friends.
 Mrs. Hayes died at Fremont, Ohio. Al hope of Mrs. Hayes recovery was given up and the sorrowing family sadly awaited the summons of the grim messenger at the bed side of the dying woman. She remained un- conscious up to the time of her death,
 All night long the sorrowing family watched around the bedside. Mrs. Hayes lay motion less, and but for the faint breathing and the weak futtering of the pulse there was no signs of life. The anxious watchers, waiting only for the inevitable end, were bowed with grief and scarcely 8 word was spoken the long night through. The physicians kept in the background and the family were alone with their loved one. In vain they hoped for slight rally that might come before to them. As morning dawned the hold on life grow weaker and weaker, and finally the spirit took flight. In voice ehoked with grief the physician announced that the end had come, and the family's long vigil closed in prostration and grief. General Hayes and his four grown sons-Burchard, Webb, Bud and Scott-were deeply affected, while Fanny is nearly prostrated with grief and her long sleepess watch at her mo ther's bedside
 The family and Mrs. J. G. Mitchell Mrs R. Fl. Miller. the nurses and physicians were at the bedside. The family were overcome with grief.
 Mrs. Hayes was loved and honored by all; she was foremost in all charitable works and always lent helping hand to the poor and needy. She had great consideration for the convenience and feelings of others and made frequent calls on the poor of Fremont, assist ing them in different ways. General and Mrs. Hayes often threw their doors open to the public, and when Mrs. Hayes was stricken down carpenters were at work enlarging their residence so that friends could be better entertained.
 Mrs. Lucy Ware Webb Hayes was born at Chilicothe. Ohio, in 1883. Her father, Dr. Webb, physician of that city, died in 1S43. leaving to his widow their daughter Lucy and two sons The acquaintance between Mir. and Mrs. Hays began when they were very young children and they had a childish romance of love. But the Hayes family ance became but memory. Years later the Widow Webb moved to Delaware to place her two sons in Wesleyan College. while Lucy was sent to the Wesleyan Academy in Cincin- nati. Young Hayes had by this time become lawyer, and as soon as he secured Q client he thought of seeking 0 life partner. This thought brought to his memory his boyhood love. He sought Miss Webb and renewed the acquaintance. This soon developed into love, engagement and marriage, which latter occurred December 30, 1852. Their home was blessed with eight children, of whom four sons and daughter are now living. When patriotism took her husband to the field to offer his life for the nation, Mrs. Hayes be- came prominent by nursing sick and wound ed soldiers and in all the benevolent work which the war threw upon American women. During Mir. Hayes incumbency of the Presi- dency she occasioned much comment by the practical way in which she manifested her devotion to total abstinence principles. Con- trary to the till then invariable custom, no wine was offered to the guests of the White Shn Ivy ocfa ,ol woman of fine mental powers and of more than ordinary energy and determination in m alters involving questions of morals. She was born on August 2S, 1881.
 Since President Hayes retirement from office Mrs. Hayes has been living quietly at her home in Fremont On March 8, 1881, few days after she had vacated the White House, a portrait of Mrs. Hayes, painted by Huntington for the National Womens Chris tian Temperance Union, was presented to the nation and unvailed in the famous East Room of the Executive Mansion. It hangs in the first panel on the east wall next to the panel occupied by the portrait of Martha Washington.
 Mrs. Hayes we'll known earnestress of conviction with regard to the subject of tenn perance was inherited from her maternal grandfather. The inherent feeling was fos- tered throughout her school days, both dur ing the six years of her education in Dela- ware, while her two brothers were college students there, and later Tn the Wesleyan Fe- male Seminary in Cincinnati, where she con- pleted her school course and was graduated. To her deep and inborn conviction it was her nature to be true through all the circum- stances of her life. This high loyalty shaped, simply and naturally, and therefore con sistently, through all her years the ways oi her home life, the manner of her hospitalities and her custom in society, while she moved through them all as the wife of private cit izen, and during the twenty years of her hus- bands public life as 0 Union general, mem. Der of Congress, Governor of her native State and a President of the United States.