The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-06-27
NOTED WOMAN
Death of the Wife of Ex- President
Hayes, at Fremont,
Ohio.
Sketch of a Former Mistress of the
White House-A D1stin-
guished Lineage.

FREMONT, ONO, June 25.-Mrs Hayes
died at 6:3O O'Clock this morning. The
funeral will take place Friday afternoon.
All night long the sorrowing family
watched around the bedside. Mrs. Hayes
lay motionIess, and but for the faint
breathing and weak futtering of the pulse
there we're no signs of life. The anxious
watchers, waiting only for the inevitable
end, were bowed with grief, and scarcely
word was spoken the long night through
The physicians kept in the back
ground and the family were alone with
their loved one. In vain they
hoped for slight rally tpat might come
before death so that she could recognize
and speak to them. AS morning dawned
her hold on life grew weaker and weaker,
and finally her spirit took lts'fight. In
voice ohoked with groan the physician
announced the end had come and the fam
ily's long vigil closed in prostration,
General Hayes and his four grown sons,
Burchard, Webb, Rudd and Scott, were
deeply affected, while Fannie is nearly
prostrated with grief and her long, sleep
less watch at her mothers bedside.
The entire city is in mourning, and
flags are at half-mast. kilograms or
coincidence have been received from many
friends, among them President and Mrs,
Harrison,
SKETCH OF MR.. HAYES.
Mrs. Hayes maiden name was Lucy
Ware Webb. She was born the 2Sth of
August, 1881, at Uhillicothe, o., and was
the youngest child and only daughter of
DR.. James Webb and Mary Cooke. Her
grandfather, Judge Isaac Cook, came
from Connecticut In 1921, and her
great grandfather served in the revolu-
tionary war. Her father served in the
war of 1912, and died during the cholera
scourge in Lexington, KY, in 1888. Her
mother, Maria Cook Wsbb, was woman
of great force of character
and deep religious convictions. She re-
moved to Delaware to have her sons edu-
Gated at the Ohio Wesleyan university and
her daughters received the benefit of the
same instructions and afterwards we're
graduated at the Wesleyan seminary in
Cincinnati in 1852. She was married De-
oember 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 of her brothers Immediately entered
the army, and from that time until the
oloso OF the war her homs was
refuge for wounded, sick
and furloughed soldiers, going
to or returning from the front. She spent
two winters in camp with her husband i'll
Virginia, and after the battle at South
toip I,ha ha dad
she hastened east and Joined him at Mid
dleton, Md, and later spent much time
in the hos pital near Frederick City. After
the close of the war she accompanied her
husband to Washington while he was a
member of congress. She was one of the
origipators of the Ohio Soldiers and Sail
ors' Orphans home, and one of its board
of directors prior to its adoption by the
state. While her husband was gov
ernor 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 dIstin
guished 'gratefulcordiality with which
she received ali who came to her. Since
the retirement of her husband from public
life she has been an ardently intert sted
member OF the Wcmen's Relief corps, and
has served during successive years as pres
ident of the Women's 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 had been presented to her
by the soldiers whose loyal regard for her
was an homage most highly appreciated.
PARTICULARS OF HER DEATH.
CINo1NNATI, OHIO, June 25.-The Times
Star, Fremont, O., special says: Mrs.
Hayes died this morning at half past 6
O'Clock, after passing the night quietly.
At O'Clock last night she became much
worse and gradually sank until the hour
of her death. At the beds ds were the
members of the family together with MIss
Mitchell, OF Columbus, q cousin of General
Hayes, Mics Huntington, cousin of Mrs.
Hayes, Lucy Keeler, Miss A. n. Miller
and the physicians.