Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-01-02

tracted while riding around his
farm in rain and sleet storm on
December 10, 1899. The cold in
creased and was followed by a chill,
which brought on acute laryngitis.
His death occurred ON December
IA, 1899. lie was sixty-six years
of age.
John Adams.-IIe died from old
age, having reached his ninty-frst
milestone. Though active mentai-
ly, he was nearly blind, and unable
to hold pen steadily enough to write.
lie passed away without pain on
July A, 1926.
Thomas Jefferson. died at
the age Of eighty-three, a few hours
before Adams, on July !, 1926. His
disease was chronic diarrhea, super
induced by old age and, his physi-
clan said, the too free use Of the wa
tiers of the White Sulphur Springs.
James Madison. He, too, died of
old age, and peacefully, ON June 2s,
1886. His faculties were undimmed
to the last. lie was eighty-fve.
James Monroe. the time Of
his death, which occurred in the
seventy-third year Of his age, on
July 4. 1881, il was assigned to no
other cause than enfeebled health.
John Quincy Adams.-He was
stricken with paralysis on February
81, 1S4S, while addressing the Speak
err of the House of Representatives,
being at the time a member of Con-
gress. He was eighty-one years Of
age
Andrew Jackson. He died on
June 8, lS45. seventy-eight years
old. He suffered from consumption
and finally dropsy, which made its
appearance about six months before
his death.
Martin Van Buran.-He died on
July "a, 1862, from o violent attack
Of asthma, followed by catarrhal
affection Of the throat and lungs.
He was eighty years of age.
William Henry Harrison.-The
cause of his death was pleurisy, the
result of cold, which he caught on
the day of his inauguration. This
was accompanied by severe diar-
rhea, which would not yield to med
ical treatment. His death occurred
on April 4, 1871, a month after his
! inauguration. He was sixty-eight
years Of age.
John Tylcr.--He died on January
II, 1862, at the age of seventy-two.
have been unable to ascertain the
cause Of his death.
James X. Polk.--In the spring Of
lS49 he was stricken with slight
attack of cholera while on boat
going up the Mississippi river.
Though temporarily relieved he had
a relapse on his return home, and
died on June ID, 1919, aged fifty.
four years.
Zachary Taylor-IIe was the sec
ond President 10 die in office. He
is said to have partaken inmoder-
ately of ice water and iced milk,
and then later on of a laIge quantity
of cherries. The result was AN at
tack Of cholera morbus. Another
authority attributes his death to a
severe cold. The former seems the
more likely. lie was sixty-siS
years Of age.
:. Willard Fillmorc.-He died from
stroke Of paralysis on March s,
1874, in his seventy-fourth year.
Frrnklin Pierce. death was
due TO abdominal dropsy. and oc-
CURED on October y, 1869, in the
sixty-ffth year Of his life.
james Buchanan-His death oc-
CURED June 1, 1868. and was caused
by rheumatic govt lie was sew
enty-seven years of age.
Abremam Lincoln.-IIe was shot
by j. Wilkes Booth at Ford's thea
ter, Washington, ID. G., April IA,
1865 and died the following day,
aged gfty-six.
Andrew Johnson.--He died from
a stroke Of paralysis. July 81, 1875,
aged sixty-seven.
; The deaths of Grant, Garfield and
Arthur are recent enough TO be re-
membered by all.-American Notes
and Queries.
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