The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1898-09-01

T.. CLAUDE MATTIIEWS
WINaATE, Ind, Aug. eat 6s
, o'clock Sunday morning at the quie
, Meharry homestead, where he was ia
, ken immediately y after his sudden afiiic
tion, ex-Gov. Claude Matthews passed
away peacefully, surrounded by his
wife and all the other members of his
immediate family.
There was prayer service, accom-
panied by the singing of hymns, at
the bedside of the dying ex-governor.
Mrs. Matthews was very much af-
fected, and stated that she would give
anything in the world If her husband
would manifest by single word his
faith in Jesus. About o'clock the min.
lister in the course of the services ask
ed the dying man IL he believed in
Jesus The answer, as plainly as any
one could articulate it. was Yes"
The three physicians regarded this
answer as miraculous, as all agreed
that the particular part of the brain
affected by the paralysis was that
governing speech and that the ex-
governor would probably never have
talked had he lived. 1t was the only
word he spoke after he was
stricken. He Immediately lapsed into
a profound coma from which he did |
not recover before he passed away at
$50 o'clock. Mrs Matthews started |
from Wingate Monday morning with
the remains o. her husband and will
arrive at Clinton, Ind, at 1880 in the
afternoon.
From Clinton the party will 90 direct
to Hazel Bluffar, the home of the dead
ex-governor.
Out OF respect to the EXPRESSED wish
of Gov. Matthews the body will not be
taken to Indianapolis to lie in state at
the capitol. The funeral will occur
Wednesday afternoon at an hour to be
hereafter determined, and will be held
in the beautiful grove adjoining the
cemetery, as there is no church or
other edifice in Clifton Of sufficient
size to accommodate the immense
crowd that will desire to attend the
funeral
Monday the mayor OF Clinton will
ssue proclamation to the merchants
md others of the city calling upon
hem to close their places of business
Wednesday so that everybody may be !
'iven an opportunity to attend the
uneral Of their beloved fellow towns Z
nan
Mrs. Matthews is bearing up sur
'ri>ingly well under the strain of her n
errible afliiction, but friends fear she C
gill suff.r collapse after the funeral. h
Mrs. Matthews received hundreds of p
elegrams and messages of coincidence Il
unday. Gov. Mount expressed the sor- &
ow of the state at the sudden death OF a
he ex-governor and requested that
ne remains be brought to Iudianapo-
S to lie IN state at the capitol In
lis he was joined by Mayor Taggart L
Id other prominent citizens To the G.
overnor and mayor Mrs Matthews ~
piled that Mr.. Matthews had often =.
id to his family that when he died he L.
anted NO pomp nor parade, and ~
ould not like to have his body lie
state Hence other and more
arrangements had al
ady been made for the funeral Gov III
ount and staff will attend the fu- -,
raj at Clinton and special train
II leave Indianapolis Wednesday 20
'rning to carry state officials and
lers. FL
ioy Matthews was born in Bath vi
lnty, Kentucky, December Il, is45 co
left Kentucky in 1865 and settled Pc
Vermillion county, Indiana, where LA
had farm of 1000 acres The gov -,
Tor served term in the legislature wi
1875 In 1890 he was nominated 30
elected secretary of state and in oA
, was chosen governor. la