The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-04-02
SENATOR YAuLKyERs sAD AFFLICnON.


A Loved and HonOred wife and Mother
Gone-FunsraI Arrangements E1prSs
sions of fsJppathy.
Special DtSpdseh to he Iateii0Aoer.
WASHINGTON, D. O., April 1.-The re
mains Of the wife Of Senator Faulkner
who died yesterday evening, will be
taken to Martinsburg on Friday next fol
interment. There will be NO funeral
ceremony at the residence in this city,
The body will be taken directly from
their house on Capitol Hill to the B. &
0. depot, In time to he placed aboard the
II 80 o. m. train, which will arrive in
Martinsburg at half past one. The pail
bearers who will accompany the funeral
party to the station are, Senators Gor.
man, OF Maryland, Kenna, ofWest Vir.
ginia, Barbour, Of Virginia, ex-senator
Spooner, OF Wisconsin, ex.District At.
torney John Blair Hogs, Commissioner
of Internal Revenue John w. Mason,
Fish O Commissioner Marshall icD Donald,
ex. Representative Gibson, Of Maryland,
and Mr.. B. H. Warner, of Washington,
Aspecial car has been provided for
the conveyance of the. coffined remains
and the Senator and bis. Ave children,
and few friends Of the family who will
accompany them 10 MArtinAburg. Ar
irving there the body will be taken di.
rectly 10 the Presbyterian church, Of
which the deceased was q member,
where obsequies will be held, and at
their close TO the cemetery and inferred
near the grave OF sister Of Mrs. Faulk.
ner.
For nearly two weeks past Mrs. Faulk.
ner has been PROSTATE with an attack Of
catarrh Of the stomach, and for several
days it was apparent that the disorder
might terminate fatally. The combined
skill OF Dr.. Young and Dr. ]. w. Bayne,
OF this city, and OF the family physician,
DR.. McSherry, OF MartinsbuTg, was Of
but little avail, save to alleviate suffer-
ing. When the disease became seriously
apparent, Senator Faulkner was in Cali.
fornia attending to his duties as mem.
ber Of the Hearst funeral committee, but
Mrs. Faulkner would not allow any one
to notify him OF her illness. She was
most courageous lady, and this was never
ipstanced more clearly than on Monday
evening, when she talked calmly to her
children oi their future conduct, dis.
cussed her rapidly approaching decease,
and even gave minute Instructions as to
the funeral ceremonies.
Every member OF the family was at
her bedside when she passed away but
the eldest son, who was away at school
and arrived too late for his mother to
recognize him. She remained rational
until about noon, after which hour she
was unable TO recognize or converse with
any one. Il
When Senator Faulkner graduated
from the University Of Virginia, in 1895,
he was engaged 10 Miss sallie Winn OF
Almost Immediately !
liter Mr.. Faulkner's graduation they
we're married, and they have ever since
,rjoyed a most happy matrimonial life.
Mrs. Faulkner was extremely popular In |
social circles, numbering among her
friends many OF the most prominent
people in the country. In her home
The was all that could be desired. Sym.
,athy with the bereaved husband and
children has been and Is being very
reely expressed by large number OF
The Senator has received nearly three
hundred kilograms and letters from
riends in West Virginia and other
parts Of the country, tenderly expressing
heir sympathy and coincidence, and
hundreds Of people have called to-day
o personally testify to their FEELINGS in
he particular. Many appropriate floral
offerings have been sent to the resi-.
ience on Capitol Hill number Of
which are Of elaborate and exquisite
iesign.
.eived by the Senator was one from
senator Edmunds, Of Vermont, which in
anguage was OF the most tender and
lweet character. Senators German and
<enna and ex-senator Spooner, have
,een especially active in their attentions
md have done much to encourage their
,ereaved colleague to bear up under the
treat afIliction that has overtaken him.