The age-herald., 1898-09-29
THOS. r. BAYARD
 DIED YESTERDAY After an Illness of Several Weeks
 He Gently Passed Away DUE TO DECLINING YEARS Became Gradually Weaker But Suffered no Noticeable Pain. HIS ( $IOERFuL CONSTITUTION
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  T cS LAST OF A FAMOUS RACE Descendant of the Immortal Chevalier He was Honored in High De-
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Fouts 9ofi the Ravages of Disease for E : rpIsing Space of Time.
; LAST OF A FAMOUS RACE
Descendant of the Immortal Chevalier He was Honored in High De- gree by the People of His
 State and Country.

Dedham, Mass, September 28.-Ihomas F. Bayard died at half-past o'clock this afternoon at Karlstein, the summer resi- dence of his daughter, Mrs. Samuel D. Warren, after an illness of six weeks. His death was without pain. His wife, his two daughters, Mrs. Warren and Miss Florence Bayard, and his son, Thomas F., Jr., saw him draw his last breath, and his third daughter the Countess Lauen- haupt, was on her way to Dedham. The remains will be conveyed to Dela- ware, and the funeral services will be held Saturday in the old Swedish church at Wilmington.
 Karlstein lies off the Needham road. Here about the middle of August came MT. Bayard, to be the guest of his daughter and son-in-law. He was sick, but it was given out that his illness was merely due to declining years. He steadily grew weak CT, however, and had spells of semi-con- sciousness and of delirium. consultation | of physicians was held August 26, and they agreed that MT. Bayard was suffer- ing from arterie-colosi and a general breaking down incident to age. He suf- fered no pain to any noticeable degree, and the chief tendency was to sleep.
 Became Gradually Weaker
 During the first few weeks of his il ness Mr. Bayard was able to sit up but as the days passed he became gradually weaker and three weeks ago he laid himself on his bed and never again rose from 1t. At times he would rally to some extent, but the relapse carried him always nearer the end. His wonderful constitution resisted the ravages of disease for a surp ising perl od Much of the time he was in a semi- conscious condition, seldom recognizing any of the family and at intervals having sink ing spells accompanied by choking. These left him always weaker. Yesterday 1t be- came evident that his death was matter of only a few hours. Still he fingered having slight rally during the night ard during the forenoon his condition showed little change. At clock he began to sink rapidly. and half an hour later he gently passed away.
 Tomorrow the body will be sent to D la- ware, being due to arrive at Wilmington late Friday afternoon
 Last of His Race
 The Bayards have furnished four United States senators in three generations, and in America no other family has held po- litical power so long. In fact the right of a Bayard to a seat in the senate has been made almost hereditary by popIlar senti- ment in Delaware. On one occasion, March 4, 1869, James A. Bayard and Thomas F.
 
 United States senate on the same day.
 This is positively the single instance in the history of America where a sovereign state calmly decided that one family de- served and should have all of the senator ships within its gift.
 His Great Pride
 But the pride of the last statesman pre- vented his nomination for the presidency in 1880. The cause of his failure his refusal to pledge himself to a pre-arranged cabinet slate. Many politicians still living know full well that confidential pledges of sufficient votes to nominate MT. Bayard for president had been made to ex-Gover- nor Wallace of Pennsylvania. Some of these votes were conditional upon MT. Bay ards pledge as to two places in the event of his election. When these condii ns were named to MT. Bayard by ex-Governor Wallace he indignantly declined to accept them. In order to preserve his own pres- tige Wallace then took up General Han cock, who was nominated but failed to carry New York by narrow margin.
 But for the lofty pride and character of MT Bayard, he would probably have been president instead of Garfield. There might have been no President Grover Cleveland, and the whole political history of our tim might have been different.
 The Three Frenchmen
 The Bayards came originally from New York The three brothers, Balthazor, Nicholas and Petrus, were descended from Huguenot emigrants who came from France to New Amsterdam in 1G47 They claimed direct descent from the famous Pierre Du Terrai, Seigneiur de Bayard, known to romance and history as "the knight without fear and without re- proach."
 The Delaware senators were descended from Petrus Bayard. He became a sto- stantial man in New York. He was led by the Labadist emssarles-who came over from Holland to form colony for the sect-to remove with his family to large tract of land in Cecil county, Maryland. The doctrines of these Labadists were very like those of the Dutch Reformers.
 His son James Bayard wont to Phila- de.phla. He married Mary Ashton, of Vir- einia, who was the Ssother of the first of the Bayard senators, James Ashton Bay- -~~-~-~~------~~---