Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-06-25
DEATH OF MRS. HAYES.
She Passed Quietly Away at $50 This
Morning.

CINCINNATI, C,HIo, June 25.-A special to the
Post from Fremont, Ohio, says: Mrs. Gen.
Hayes passed last night quietly, growing grad
ually weaker, and passed away at $50 this
morning. The family, Mrs. Mitchell Of Colunn-
bus, Mrs. Huntington, Miss Lucy Keeler and
Mrs. A. II. Miller were at her bedside.
Mrs. Hayes died without having spoken
word since she was stricken with paralysis,
last Friday afternoon. She rallied slightly
yesterday afternoon, but became worse again
about O'Clock in the evening, and continued
to sink gradually until dissolution occurred
this morning. At the request Of Gen. Hayes,
prayer-service was held at the bedside about
II o'clock last night. Mrs. Hayes funeral will
take place Friday afternoon.
The entire city is in mourning and
coincidence have been received from many
friends among them President and Mrs. Har-
rison.
MRS. HAYES MAIDEN NAME
was Lucy Ware Webb. She was bors the 2sth
Of August, 1881, at Chillicothe, Ohio and was
the youngest child and only daughter Of
DIR. James Webb and Maria Cook. Her grand
father. Judge Isaac Cook, who came from Con-
necticut in 1871, and all four Of her greatgrand-
fathers, served in the Revolutionary war. Her
father served in the war of 1872 and died dur
ing the cholera scourge in Lexington, KY. in
1888. Her mother, Maria Cook Webb, was a
woman Of great force and character and deep
religious convictions She removed to Della
ware to have her sons educated at the
Ohio Wesleyan university, and her daughter
received the benefit of the same instructions
and afterward was graduated at the Wesleyan
female seminary, at Cincinnati, in 1852 She
was married December 80. 1852. and at the
breaking out Of the war of the rebellion her
family consisted of her mother, her two brothers
and her four little boys. Her husband and
both of her brothers Immediately joined the
army, and from that time until the close of the
war her home was refuge for wounded, sick
and furloughed soldiers, going to OF. 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 east and Joined him at
Middletown, Nd, and later spent much time
IN the hospital near Frederick City. After the
close Of the war she accompanied her husband
TO Washington while be was a member OF Con-
gress. She was one of the originators Of the
Ohio Soldiers and Sailors orphan home, and
on its board of directors prior to its adoption
by the state. While her husband was governor
Of Ohio she took an active interest in all the
charitable institutions of the state. During
the four years of her life at the White
House she was distinguished by a graceful
cordiality with which she received all who came
to her. Since the retirement of her husband
from pubic 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 Womans home missionary
society of the Methodist Episcopal church. She
has been an honorary member Of the Society
of the Army of West Virginia, the medal OF
which has been presented to her by the soldiers
whose loyal regard for her was an homage the
most highly appreciated.
HER TEMPERANCE PRINCIPLES INHERITED.
Mrs. Hayes wel-known earnestness Of con
viction with regard to the subject of temper
ance was inherited from her maternal grand
father. The inherent feeling was fostereC
throughout her schoolgirl days, both during
the six years of her education in Delaware
while her two brothers were college student
there, and later in the Wesleyan femal,
seminary in Cincinnati, where she completed
her school course and was graduated. Hel
deep and inborn convictions, it was her natur,
to be true through all circumstances OF hei
life. This high loyalty shaped simply anC
naturally, and therefore consistently, through
all her years the ways Of her home life, th,
manner Of her hospitalities, and hsr custom il
society while she moved through them ell a
the wife Of private citizen, and during th,
twenty years OF her husbands life as Unior
ge neral, a member of Congress, a governor o
her native state, and President Of the Unitet
States.