Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-10-27

dissolution came. The end was calm
and peaceful. She met death with the
patience and resignation Of a devout
Christian, and her last days were COM
paratiVely free from pain.
For twenty-four hours the president
and family had been almost constantly
at her bedside, awaiting the end.
The measure of the ebbing tide was
the res piration. which slowly sank from
about fifteen at nightfall to twelve at
midnight. The physician had said that
if she tided over that hour she might
and probably would survive until day
light. So frequent glances were cast at
the clock which was steadily ticking
away the lifetime of the invalid and
there was avisible air of relief when the
gong sounded IL, and one critical point
was supposed to have been passed.
The hope inspired by the doctors last
statement was only of short duration.
About 1880 o'clock, while he sat by
Mrs. Harrison's aide with fingers lightly
pressed to her pulse, his practiced hand
noticed that the hearts work was be-
ginning to cease. He notified the grief
stricken family grouped around the
couch that the end appeared to be very
near, and that unless she soon rallied
from the stupor into which she then
was drifting she could scarcely live half
an hour longer.
This intelligence had a most depress-
ing effect upon the president, who had
been in constant attendance upon his
afflicted wife for over nine hours, and
he sustained himself with the greatest
officially.
If 1T were possible to add to the gray
ity Of the situation and to stimulate the
agonized apprehension of the sorrowing
family gathered about the scarcely ami
mated form of the beloved wife and
mother, those results were attained
when DIR. Gardner, after narrowly ex-
amining the countenance and feeling
the pulse Of the dying woman, sorrow
fully announced that all the indications
justified the belief that she could not
survive more than half an hour
This WAS at 12:45 o'clock. The min
utes passed with frightful rapidity; the
half hour passed; then came 1:4O-and
all was over.
Mrs. Harrison was dead.
All of the family in Washington were
present at the deathbed, except the three
little grandchildren and the venerable
DR.. Scott, the father Of Mrs. Harrison.
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and Mrs. Mckee, Mr.. and Mrs. Russell
Harrison, Lieutenant and Mrs. Parker,
Mrs. Dimmick and Mrs. Newcomer. In
addition Mrs. Harrison's faithfuanmaid,
Josephine, and Miss Davis, the TRAINED
nurse, were in the room.
The members of the family spent O
few minutes around the lifeless clay,
and let veil be drawn over their deep
grief. When they emerged with sor-
rowful faces the president retired i'm
mediately to his own room and closed
his door. The other members of the
family, respecting his evident wish, al
lowed him to remain unmolested to con-
template his great bereavement and
commune with the Maker.
They also retired, and gave place to
DR.. Gardner. One glance Of his eye told
the story, and he knew that science had
once again yielded to nature, and that
mans efforts had been in vain. He
passed out, and then the last sad offices
for the dead were performed by the
nurse, Miss Davis, who composed the re-
mains for the hands of the undertaken.
The doctor went home, the last of the
many questions put by the lot of news
paper men were answered by Mr.. Hal
ford, the lights were 6immed, and the
quiet Of the grave lay upon the great
white mansion.
Several. policemen, who had been sum
moned in anticipate = of the event.
were stationed on all i, 9 outgrounds to
prevent people from truding on the
privacy of the president and family in
their bereavement.
Mrs. Harrison's body lay undisturbed
until 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, when
Undertaken w. r. Speare and assistants
took charge, and prepared it for examin-
alton by Ilr, Gardner.
kilograms conveying the sad intelli-
gence were also at once dispatched to
all members Of the cabinet absent from
the city, and. to Judge Scott, Mrs. Har.
rison's only brother, who is now on his
way to this city, in the vain hope Of
reaching her before the end came. He
started from Port Townsend, Wash,
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