The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-12-03
THE ADVOCATE.
now The PRESIDENTS DIED.
interesting Facts That Should be
Known by all Americans.

'Hss George Washington-His death was
the result of severe cod contracted
while riding around bis farm in a
rain and sleet storm on Dec. 10, 1879
The cold increased and was followed
by chill, which brought on acute
|earyngitis. His death occurred on
December IA, 1899. He was sixt,
Eight years of age.
John Adams--He died from old age
having reached his ninety-frst mile
stone. Though active mentally, he
was nearly blind and unable hold a
pen steady enough to write. lie
passed away without pain on July
1926.
Thomas Jefferson--he died at the
age of eighty-three, a few hours before
Adams, on July 4, 1926. His disease
was chronic diarrhoea, superinductd
by old age, and, his physician said, the
TOO free use of the waters OF white
sulphur springs.
James Madison---IIe, too, died of
old age, and peacefully, on June 70,
1886. His faculties were undimmed
/ TO the last. He was 80.
James Monroe--At the time of his
death, which occurred in the I'D year
of his age, on July A, 1881, it was as
signed to no other cause than enfeeble
C&dalth.
John Quincy Adams-IIe was
stricken with paralysis on February q
1S47, while addressing the Speaker of
ethe House of Representatives, being at
that time member of Congress file
psdIed In the rotuuda of the Calilol.
Z Me was 81 years of age.
n Andrew jacksonville died on June
As, 1916, rs years old He suffered
from consumption, and finally dsopsy
made its appearance about six months
before his death.
Martin VanBuren--He died on July
"a, 1862, from violent attack OF
asthma, followed by catarrhal affec-
tions of the throat and lungs. lie
was eighty years ofage.
William Henry Harrison - The
cause Of his death was pleurisy, the
result of cold which he caught on
the dav of his inauguration. This
was accompanied with severe diar.
rhoea, which would not yield TO med.
ical treatment. His death occurred
on April A, 1871, a month after his in
4 auguration. He was sixty-eight
y years Of age.
John Tyler He died OH January II
1862, at tie age of seventy-two.
,SJlave been unable to ascertain the
cause of his death
James *. Polk-In the spring OF
lS49 he was stricken with a slight at,
tack OF cholera while on boat going
up the Mississippi liver. Though
temporarily relieved he had relapse
on his return home. and died on July
ms, lS49, aged fifty-fo years
IN Zachary Taylor-lle was the second
|Rresident to die in Office. He Is said
n to have taken immoderately Of icC
water and iced milk and then later o.
a large quantity of cherries. The re-
suit was all attack of cholera norbus
Another authority attributed his
death to a severe cold. The former
seems the more likely. lie was sixty,
six years old
Willard Fillmore--He died from &
stroke of paralysis on March s. 1874
in his seventy-fourth year.
Franklin Pierce--H His death was due
to abdominal dropsy. and occurred OF
October s, 1865, in the sixty-fifth year
of his fife.
James Buchanan His death occur
red on June l, 1868, and was caused
10y rheumatic govt. He was seventy
seven years of age.
Abraham Lincoln-He was shot by
j. Wilkes. Booth at Ford's Theater
Washington, d. c., on April IA, 1865
and died the following day, aged fifty.
six.
Andrew Johnson--He died from q
IKE Of paralysis July 81, 1875, aged
S y-seven.
fhur and Hayes are recent enough
20 be remembered by all.--Louisville
htTimes.
Wants to be Warden.