Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-26

the disease resisted all treatments, ana
at 1890 o'clock of the morning of April
4 the president breathed his last.
Funeral services were held in the east
room on the 18th, being conducted by
Rev. Mr.. Hawley, rector of st. Johns
church. Ma sermon was preached, but
Mr.. Hawley pointed to Bible and
prayerbook on table near the bier,
which he said had been the daily com
panions of the deceased since he entered
the White House, and had it not been
for illness, said Mr.. Hawley, he would
have united with the church the previ-
Gus Sabbath. Escorted by procession,
civil and military, two miles IN length,
his remains were temporarily laid away
in Congressional cemetery.
Mrs. Letitia Tyler,
first wife of President Tyler, who was
elected vice president on the ticket with
General Harrison and succeeded him as
chief executive, died in the White
House ON the 10th of September the
next year, 1S42. During her brief stay
in the executive mansion, Mrs. Tyler
was unable to discharge the duties of
hostess, her place being taken first by
Mrs. Robert Tyler, her sons wife, and
Mrs. Semple, her daughter. Her funeral
sermon was also preached by DR..
Hawley and her body laid to rest in the
family burying ground, New Kent
county, Va.
Zachary Taylor.
The third death was that Of President
Zachary Taylor, who entered the White
House March 4, 1849 He lived only
until July ., 1866 His death was the
result of exposure on the Fourth of July
just previous, when he took part in the
dedication Of Washington's monument.
The weather was exceedingly hot and
the president drank freely Of ice water
and partook OF a large quantity of fruit.
Immediately upon his return to the
White House he was seized with an in
disposition from which he never recov-
ered but which was not believed to be
of fatal or even serious nature until
the morning of his death.
Willie Lincoln,
second son of President Lincoln, died in
the White House in February, 1869, at
the time when Tad" the favorite son
of the martyred president, lay seriously
i'll. Mr.. Lincoln said that the blow
was the saddest experience of his life
and the hardest to be borne. Willie
was eWoANo JShAS oiu tU ullo eALho Va LIS
death.
Frederick #. Dent,
father of Mrs. U. s. Grant, who was
member of the presidential family from
the time General Grant entered the
White House, died there Dec. Is, 1873
Funeral services were held in the east
room, sermon being preached by the
Rev. O. II. Tiffany, d. d.
The Hawaiian Minister.
The last previous death within the
portals of tho executive mansion was
the most dramatic of all. 1t occurred at
the New Years reception being held by
President Arthur Jan. /, 1888, and
threw pail over the festivities of the
occasion which were at once brought to
Il close by the unbidden and unexpected
entrance of the grim messenger. Mr..
Elisha A. Allen, minister to the United
States from Hawaii and dean of the
diplomatic corps, was at the head of his
associates making his way to the presi-
dent to present the members of the lega-
tons with their compliments when he
was smitten with heart disease. Falling
TO the floor he was hurriedly borne into
one of the parlors but never recovered
consciousness and expired before medl-
cal aid could reach him.
Other Sad Scenes.
Besides these deaths, the White House
has been the theater OF other scenes of
sorrow and suffering When President
Garfield fell with the assassin's bullet in
his back, he was conveyed to the room
in which Mrs Harrison died, and re-
manned there until carried forth to die
at Elberon.
Colonel Ellsworth, the hero of the
early war days, lay in state i'll the blue
room ON the morning of May 25, 1861,
and funeral services were held there in
the presence of one of the most distin-
guished gatherings ever assembled in
that parlor The services were con-
Quoted by Drs. Butler and Morsell and
Chaplain Payne, of the famous zouaves,
and at their close the gallant dead was
transported to New York.
Another and more notable funeral
held in the blue room was that of the
victims of the explosion of the big gun
ON the Princeton, Commodore Stock
toms ship, near Alexandria, Feb. 20,
1874. These included Secretaries Upshur
and Gilmer and the Hon. David Gard
ner, of New York. President Tyler,
then a widower, narrowly escaped the
fate of his secretaries by an interesting
incident of romantic character He
was deyOtedly attached at that time to
the daughter of Mr. Gardner. and was
with party in the cabin of the ship
listening to her sing. He turned to go
on deck with the others, but she began
another song and he remained in the
companionway to listen. While there
the explosion occurred, and his assoc
ciates were blown into eternity. The
goth of June following. Miss Gardner
became mistress of the White House.