Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-08
DEATH OF MRS. DocKERY.
rhs Wife of the Governor OF missouri
Passes Away With the opening
of the New Year.

jefferson SSty, Mo-, Jan. 2.--Mrs-
Elizabeth Dockery, wife of the gov
ernor, Died Thursday morning at 5:4s
o'clock. Der two sisters, Mrs. Mary
B. LinsoIn, of Bowling Greenland Mrs.
Carrie M. Orr, of Kansas City,the only
survivors of her immediate family,
were at the bedside.
Mrs. Dockery's maiden name was
Mary Elizabeth Bird. She was a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Greenup
Bird, her father being for many years
a prominent banker at C~hillicothe,
where she was born, March Is, 1S4S.
She was educated at Clay seminary in
Liberty. to which place her parents
moved to give her the advantages OF
schooling. April IA, 1869, she was a
ried at Chillicothe to Alexander Mon
roe Dockery, who was then a practic-
ing physician in that place.
Five years later they went to Gala
tin, where they made their permanent
residence and where Nh. Dockery
practiced his profession of medicine
until he was elected to congress.
Eight children were born to them, all
of whom died at tender age.
Mrs. Dockery spent most 2 She
time with her husband at the nitta,.na
capital until the champaign of 1900,
when he was elected governor of Mis-
youri.
Since his Inauguration in January,
1901, she had been mistress of the ex-
ecutive mansion at the capital of Mis-
souri.
Mrs. Dockery was a lineal descend
ant of Commodore Perry, who wrote
the message to Gen. Harrison after
the battle of Lake Erie, I'VE have met
the enemy and they are ours"
In appearance Mrs. Dockery was
above the average height; she was a
decided brunette and had sparkling
black eyes. Her manner was cordial,
her light handshake of the kind that
gave confidence to the ditfident and
pleasure to the stranger.
Her wide experience at the national
capital enabled her to know men and
women of all states and nations, but
her loyalty to Missouri and Missouri
ans enabled her to retain for the first
place her friends from her native
state.
AS mistress of the executive man
! sion, her heart was full of just pride
in her husbands achievements as a
statesman. Her pleasures were es-
sentially in her home, and yet her
interest in the affairs of the country
were never overlooked.
Mrs. Dockery was reared a Pros
byterian, but became identified with
/ the Methodist church after her a
riage. She and Gov. Dockery were
members of that church many years.
Mrs. Dockery took great pleasure
in her duties at the mansion, and al
ways made it a homelike place.
Funeral services were held at the
mansion Thursday night, conducted
by Rev. DR.. G. E. Patillo, pastor of
the Methodist church, of which Mrs.
Dockery was a member, assisted by
the pastors of the other churches.
The sermon was an impressive one,
and paid a deserving tribute to a
woman, whose virtues of head and
heart were not hardened by place.
Friday morning the remains were
taken to Chillicothe in a special coach
attached to the fast mail train. In
the party accompanying the remains
were State Auditor Albert o. Allen
and wife, State superintendent of
Public Schools w. T. Darlington and
wife, State Treasurer Robert P. Will
Jams, Adjt.-Gen. w. 7. Cameron, AS
sistant Attorney Gen. Sam B. JEFF
fries and wife, Miss Fox, daughter
of Supreme Court Judge J. D. Fox;
Senator Emmett Field, Representative
A. B. Duncan, Representative A. A.
Speer, Supreme Court Judge Waltour
M. Robinson, Mr.. W. A. Morrow and
wife, Supreme Court Clerk John r.
Green and wife, Rev. DR.. C. n. Patti
10, and many others of the official
family here, beside those who came
from st. Louis, and still others who
Joined the party at Kansas City,
where the Burlington was taken for
Chillicothe.