The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-13
IN DEATHS EMBRACE
Sabbath at the Mckinley House of
Mourning.
PREPARING THE FUNERAL
ALL THE CANTON MINISTERS
WILL PARTICIPATE.
Services Will Be Held Tomorrow
Afternoon at the Church Where
Mother Mckinley Was to Be
Found Every Sunday Morning
Since Her Reside4-:,a IL Canton.

Canton, O., Dec. 12-Funeral services
over the remains of Mrs. Nancy Allison
Mckinley will be held in the First M. e.
church of this city at 1 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 attend the funeral will leave for the
capital, reaching there about noon We'd
nesday.
CHURCH SERVICES.
These are the arrangements so far as
completed since the death of Mother NC
KinlSy, shortly after o'clock this morn
ing: 1t was at first thought by the family
that the services should be of a more
1t was learned, however, through the
pastor of Mrs. McKinley's church, and
members of the congregation, as Well a
from other friends, that the number of
tribute of respect to the beloved woman
by attending the obSequieS, could not be
accommodated with such arrangements,
and church services were decided upon.
Rev. DR.. Manchester, the pastor of the
church, has announced that 1T is his de-
sire and that he will extend an invitation
to have the ministers of all of the
churches of the city, of which there are
about 80, occupy the pulpit and partici
pate in the services.
Pallbearers 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 7. j. Nc
John f. Blake.
MOTHER M'KINLEY'S CHURCH.
The First Methodist church, in which
the services are to be held. is the one in
which Mother Mckinley worshipped dur
ing her residence in Canton. and In which
c a xrroc q
ing, only serious indisposition or import
ant circumstances keeping her away.
Three weeks ago today she was in her
pew as usual, and though she was nearly
So years of age. she attended regularly all
the While. This is also the congregation
with which the president has always been
associated. 1t was in this church that
he was superintendent of the Sunday
school 80 years ago, and here that he al
ways attended services when in Canton,
usually going with his mother. They last
the president was here during his summer
vacation. The president is a member of
the board of trustees of the church.
TOLLED OFF HER AGE.
At daylight this morning, at the sug-
gestion of some OF the older members of
tom, now almost obsolete, be observed, to
publicly announce the death, the bell in
the tower of the church slowly tolled off
the years of her age.
1t is a coincidence that Mrs. Mckinley
died at almost the indentical hour of the
day as did her husband, on Thanksgiving
five years ago.
President Mckinley remained I'D until
about $3.50 o'clock. little more than an
hour after the death. and then retired
for few hours sleep. During the fore
noon he ard 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
exercise, although even before he seemed
little the worse physically for the trying
ordeal of the past days, during which, ex-
cept when he went to Washington to at
tend to official duties, he kept an almost
constatn vigil at the bedside of his
mother
THE CEMETERY
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