Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-15
Widow of the Noted American
General and Former Presi-
dent Passes Away
HEART DISEASE CAUSES DEATH
Only One of the Children P.asent When
Death Came, the Three Sons Being
Unable to Reach Washington Before
the End Came = Sketch of Mrs.
Grants Career.

| Washington, Dec. 15.-Mrs. u. s.
Grant died at her residence in this city
| at 11:17 o'clock last night. Her age
prevented her raliying from the attacks
| of heart failure which set in Satur-
! day.
Mrs. Grant had suffered for some
years from valvular disease Of the
heart, which on Saturday became ag-
gravated by a severe attack of bron-
chitis.
Her daughter, Nellie Grant Sartoris,
was the only one of her children with
her at the time of her death, her three
sons, who had been summoned here
failing to reach her bedside in time to
see their mother alive.
Mrs. Julia Dent Grant was at the
| time of her death n years old, and had
always been noted for her rugged con-
stitution. She decided in 1899 to make
Washington her permanent home, and
bought from former Senator Edmunds
his handsome residence in Massachu-
sets avenue. She paid $4,000 for 1T
out of her private funds, and has lived
| in it almost continuously since. In the
same year she wrote a book telling the
story of her life from the time she was
a simple country lass, her being wooed
and won by the famous General, their
marriage her life as mistress of the
white house, her grief, and the happi-
ness she has since enjoyed with her
family.
When on the old Dent farm in Belle
vue, just below the city of st. Louis,
which her father, Colonel Dent owned,
she met her future husband. He was
stationed in Jefferson barracks. he
fell in love with her, as even in her girl
hood days her beauty was known for
miles around the old farm.
Grant was the chum of Miss Dents
brother in West Point. This was be-
fore the civil war, and before going
with his regiment to the Mexican war
Lieutenant Grant received the promise
that on his return Julia Dent would
become his wife. When he came back
with his regiment, one of the first to
welcome his safe return was Miss Dent,
and she was proud when she saw that
he had come back with the rank of
captain. Soon after this they were
married, and not long after he was sent
to do duty on the frontier.
He became tired of the life of SOL
dier and resigned to engage in farming
in Missouri Mrs. Grant, in her book,
said that this was the first real domes-
tic life that they had enjoyed since their
marriage. When the civil war broke
out he drilled company and volun-
| teered his own and the service of his
men to the country.
In her book Mrs. Grant passed over
| the four years OF the war, and only re-
| fers to the worrinent she underwent
with so many other wives by saying
that the women were too busy those
days to think of much. They were
busy making lint, bandages and other
things for their soldier husbands and
| their comrades.
She was instrumental in getting up
| the sanitary fair in st. Louis for the
benefit of the men at the front. Her
daughter Nellie, now Mrs. Sartoris,
made big hit at the fair by reciting
THE Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe
Describing the victorious return home
of her husband. Mrs. Grant said:
And when he came back after all
those years, / found that my Captain
was a general. was proud of him, and
when he became his countrys president
| I was still prouder of him, as was his
country"