The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-13
FUNERAL ON TUESDAY
"MOTHER" M'KINLEY'S REMAINS To
BE INFERRED Ar CANTON.
Obsequies VIII Be i'm First NJ. E.
Church and the Body VIII BE Bur-
led in West Lawn Cemetery.
MANY PEOPLE WILL ATTEND
MEMBERS OF CABINET AND OTHERS
COMING FROM WASHINGTON.
President Mckinley Personally Su-
Messages of Coincidence Received.

CANTON, o., Dec. 12.-Funeral services
over the remains of Mrs. Nancy Allison Nc
Kinley will be held in the First M. e.
Church of this city at / o'clock Tuesday
afternoon. Interment will follow in West
Lawn Cemetery, just west of the city, and
Tuesday evening President Mckinley and
wife and officials from Washington who
may attend the funeral will leave for the
capital, reaching there about noon Wednes-
day. These are the arrangements so far
as completed, since the death of Mother"
Mckinley shortly after o'clock this morn
ing From reports received here this even
ing it is expected that Secretary Bliss, of
the Interior Department, Secretary of War
Alger, Attorney General McKenna, his wife
and his daughters, Postmaster General
Gary and Secretary to the President Porter
and his wife will reach here Tuesday morn
ing over the Pennsylvania lines to attend
the funeral.
1t was at first thought by the family that
the services should be of more private
nature held at the old homestead. 1t was
soon learned, however, through the pastor
of Mrs McKinley's church and members of
the congregation, as we'll as from other
friends, that the number of friends who de-
sired to pay their last tribute of respect to
the beloved woman by attending the OBJ
sequies could not be accommodated with
such arrangements and church services
were decided on.
Rev. DIR. Manchester, the pastor of the
church, has announced that it is his desire
and that he will extend an invitation to
have the ministers of all of the churches,
of which there are about thirty, occupy the
pulpit and participate in the services Pail
bearers have been selected from among the
older members of the church and those who
for years have been close neighbors of the
deceased. They are: Judge William r. Day.
Hon. William A. Lynch, former Mayor r.
A. Cassidy, L. l.. Miller, w. w. Clark
Judge Il. j. McCarty, David collars and
former Mayor John f. Blake
The First Methodist Church, in which the
services are to be held, is the one in which
Mother Mckinley worshiped during her
residence in Canton and in which she was
found almost every Sunday morning, only
serious indisposition or important circum-
stances keeping her away. Three weeks
ago to-day she was in her pew as usual
and though she was nearly eighty-nine
years old her attendance had been regular
all the while. This is also the congrega-
ton with which the President has always
been associated. 1t was in this church that
he was superintendent of the Sunday school
thirty wears ago. and here that he always
attended services when in Canton, usually
going with his mother. They last attended
together in September when the President
was here during his summer vacation. The
President is member of the board OF trus-
tees of the church.
At daylight this morning, at the sugges-
tion of some of the older members of the
congregation that an old-time custom, now
almost obsolete, be observed to publicly an
nounce the death of Mrs Mckinley, the
bell in the tower of the church slowly tolled
off the years of her age.
It is a coincidence that Mrs. Mckinley
died at almost the Identical hour OF the
dav as did her husband on Thanksgiving,
five years ago.
President Mckinley remained up until
about $3.50 o'clock a little more than an
hour after his mothers death, and then
retired for a few hours sleep. During the
forenoon he and his brother spent the
greater part of an hour walking about the
more secluded streets near home, securing
much needed exercise and fresh air. The
President was greatly refreshed by the ex-
ercise although even before he seemed lit
tie the worse physically for the trying or
deal of the past ten days during which, ex-
cept when he went to Washington to at
tend to official duties, he kept an almost
constant vigil at the bedside of his mother.
In the afternoon the President and Abner
Mckinley drove to the beautiful West Lawn
Cemetery, about a mile west of the home,
to attend personally to arrangements for
the interment, which will be made in the
family lot where lie the remains of the
husband and father, and which adjoins the
lot which for more than twenty years has
contained the bodies of the two children of
the President and his wife under carefully
kept mounds that are strewn with flowers
whenever the parents come to Canton To-
dav the President tenderly and tearfully
laid clusters of flowers on the graves while
the site of his mothers resting place was
being selected.
Messages of coincidence are pouring in to
the telegraph Office from all quarters and
many friends have already called at the
house to offer sympathy.
Mr. Stewart l.. Bosnian, of Lorain, the
husband of one of Mrs. McKinleys grand
children, joined the family circle this morn
ing. The children and grandchildren. except
Mrs. George b. Norris of San Francisco
a daughter of the late David Mckinley, and
all of the immediate family were here for
the closing scenes of the life. Other rela-
tives will come for the funeral Assistant
Secretary of State Day has remained as an
old friend of the President and is assisting
in making the funeral arrangements.
During her life Mrs. Mckinley showed a
fondness for visiting with her children and
besides having them at her home much
as possible, frequently visited at their
homes. She spent one winter with her son
David in California shortly before his death.
and frequently went to Somerset, Pa, home
of her son Abner. as well as to Pittsburg
and later to Cleveland, the home of the
Duncans.
QFor account of Mrs McKinleys death
and sketch of her life see matter reprinted
from the second edition of the Sunday Jour
nal)
THE WASHINGTON PARTY.