The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-12-13
MOTHER M'KINLEY.

Around the deathbed when the final
scene was enacted We're President Nc
Kinley and his wife, Mr.. Abner Nc
Kinley, Mrs. Duncan and Miss Helen
Mckinley, children of the aged woman.
The aged sister was there, Mrs. Abigail
Osborne, the only one of the Allison
family now living. Mrs Bowman, of
Lorraine; Misses Grace and Mabel Nc
Kinley, James Mckinley, Miss Duncan
and Jack Duncan, grandchildren, were
in the party that witnessed the last
scene in the gentle life. The president
and his wife remained at the bedside
for an hour after the end but by 4
o'clock every member Of the family
had retired
Funeral services over the remains Of
Mrs. Mckinley win be held in the First
NJ b. church Of this city at 1 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon. Interment will
follow in West Lawn cemetery, just
west Of the city, and tomorrow even
ing President Mckinley and wife, and
officials from Washington who attend
the funeral, viii leave for the capital
reaching there about noon Wednesday.
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 T. ]. McCarty, Davis Zol-
lars 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 worshipped
during her residence in Canton, and In
which she was found almost every Sun
day morning, only serious indisposi-
tion or important circumstances keep
ing her away. Three weeks ago she
was in her pew as usual and though
she was nearly SO years Of age, her at
tendance had been regular 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 always attended services when in
| Canton, usually going with his mother.
| They last attended together In Sep
! tember, when the president was here
| during his summer vacation. The pres
! ident is a member of the board of
! trustees Of the church.
! At daylight yesterday morning, at the
| suggestion of some of the older mem
| bers of the congregation that an old
| time custom now almost obsolete be
| observed to publicly announce the
| death, the bell IN the tower Of the
church slowly tolled of the years Of her
age.
1t is a coincidence that Mrs. McKin-
ley died at almost ths identical hour
| of the day as did her husband on
| Thanksgiving, five ylala ago. Presi-
dent Mckinley remained up until 3.8C
o'clock, a little more than an hour after
the death and then retired for a few
hours sleep. During yesterday fore
noon he and his brother spent the
| greater part of an hour walking about
the more secluded streets near home
securing much needed exercise and air
The president was greatly refreshed by
the excise from the trying ordeal of the
past days, during which, except wheI
he went 70 Washington to attend t,
official duties he kept an almost con
stant vigil at the bedside of his mother
In the afternoon the president ant
Abner Mckinley drove TO beautiful
West Lawn cemetery about mill
west Of the home, TO attend PERSONAL.
: to arrangements for the interment
which viii be made in the family lot
{ where lies the remains Of her HUSBAND
{ and father and which adioins the 10
! which for more than 20 years has con