The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-01-27
1t Carries Off Ex-Prcsident
Hayes at His Home at
Fremont, Ohio.
81 Know 1 am Going Where
Lucy Is,'' His Last Words.
---Brief Sketch.


condition of the ex-president that he
was improving nicely and resting
easily allayed suspicion. So the
sudden announcement by Webb
Hayes that his father had just died
proved a shock to all. From Mr..
Hayes it is learned that the condition
of his father took sudden change
early in the evening and dissolution
rapidly followed.
Gen. Hayes sickness has been
watched during the day and evening
by Dr. ililbish and friends of the
general, and as is generally the case
many conflicting rumors were afloat,
but an interview early in the evening
with Rutherford P. Hayes appeared
to reduce the facts to statement
that his condition was practically
unchanged. The members of the
family had spent the day quietly at
home and nothing seemed to indicate
that the death of the general was
expected. Webb Hayes went to the
bank where he is employed as usual.
An Associated Press correspondent
interviewed personal friend of the
family, who said that the ex-presl-
dent was seized with a cold in
Columbus last Saturday while
driving to the union depot and asked
for a stimulant. This so revived
him that he insisted on returning
home, saying:
"I would rather die in Spiegel
Grove than live anywhere else.'
After boarding the train he was
seized with violent pains in the
chest, which lasted until after he
returned home. He was treated for
angina pectoris, and while relieved
OF the distress of the heart, he never
recovered his vitality and his life
was suddenly terminated by paralysis
of the heart.
While lying in his room he
frequently referred to visit made to
his wife's grave on the preceding
Sunday and spoke of the quiet
beauty Of the snow covered scene
He said that he almost wished he
were lying there, land yet," said he,
my life is an unexceptionally happy
one" His last words, spoken to his
family physician with the utmost
earnestness, were:
II know | am going where Lucy
is.''
He passed quietly and painlessly
away at I0:45 in the evening, sur
rounded by the members of the
household. The funeral services will
be held Friday and Gen. Hayes will
be placed beside his beloved wife in
Lakewood.
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was
born in Delaware, O.. October 4, 1922
His fat her died previous to his birth,
leaving a widow in easy circum-
stances, enabling her to give her son
an education at that time far beyond
the ordinary. He first attended a
common school. Early in life began
to study Latin and Greek under
the tutelage of Judge Sherman
French. He took a course in the
academy at Norwalk, O., and in 1887
went to the Isaac Webb school, at
Middleton, to prepare for college. In
1888 he entered Kenyon college at
Gambler, O. He graduated in 1912
and was chosen to deliver the
yaledictory. He entered the law
Office of Thomas Sparrow at COlum-
bus, and in lS45 finished his studies
in the law school of Harvard univer-
sity. He was admitted to the bar
in the same, year and established
himself at Lower Sandusky-nOW
known as ,Fremont--and formed a
partnership with Ralph P. Buckland,
then congressman. In 1850 he estab-
lished himself in Cincinnati. In 1852
he married Lucy Webb, daughter OF
DR.. James Webb, of Chillicothe. In
1856 he refused the nomination for
common pleas judge. In 1853 and
1859 he was city solicitor of Cincin-
natl. Hays always voted with the
whig party and upon the birth OF the
republican party allied himself with
that organization. At the first out
break of the war he rendered his
services and was appointed major
Of the Twenty-third regiment OF
Ohio infantry. He was later
appointed judge advocate OF the
department of Ohio. He was pro-
NOTED to lieutenant colonel and
year later made colonel as a reward
for bravery.
To Mr.. Hayes is largely due the
credit for routing Morgan's band ana
compelling the surrender OF thaC
noted guerrilla. In 1864 Col. hayes
was sent to cut the principal lines OF
al,