The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-06-01
III Mcmory of Mrs. Mckinley.

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A Canton, Ohio telegram of May
2Sth, says that eight. thousand peo-
pie passed through the Mckinley
home this afternoon and viewed the
body Of Mrs. William Mckinley. The
funeral services, to be held Wednes-
day afternoon, beginning at o'clock
will be simple and brief. DR.. Buxton,
the present pastor of the First Meth
odist Episcopal church and DR..
Holmes, the former pastor, have
charge. The president and other fed
era! officers vii! attend
The body will be placed in the
vault in West Lawn cemetery, which
holds also the body Of her husband,
until the completion of the national
mausoleum on Monument hill, when
both caskets will be transferred to
receptacles in that tomb.
| "Oh Lord please let me die plead
ed Mrs. Mckinley, when the ashen
hue of the murdered president told
her that she was widow. From that
day until yesterday she had prayed
constantly to be taken from earthly
life. In the Mckinley home, when
death came were present, Secretary
Cortelyou, Mr.. and Mrs. M. c. Bar
ber, Mrs. Sarah Duncan, Mrs. Luther
Day, Justice and Mrs. VIM. R. Day.
Drs. Portsman and Rixey and the
nurses
Tho peculiar pathos that was at
tached to Mrs. Mckinley in the eyes
of the country at large has its root
in a love story that will take its
place among the classics. On the
part Of President Mckinley it was a
single minded devotedness, that gath
cred an ever increasing tenderness
from the delicacy of his wife, whose
hopes of motherhood were buried
and whose mind, as if arrested on the
threshold Of that deepest experience
of her womanhood, was still in the
thrall of youth.
On her part it was love of alb
solute dependence and childlike trust
Though all her life her eyes have re-
tanned the clear, unshadowed soft
ness Of the girl; the charming pink
of her cheek was that usually known
to the dawn Of maturity. Her gentle
smile, her soft voice, the ingenious
ness OF manner, the modulted voice,
all gave President Mckinley the
sweetheart of his boyhood, and who
could not share the cares OF the
state and must be protected from
every alien look or word, could yet
win him from all other considera-
tions to make her happy.
| President Roosevelt and party ar
rived at / O'Clock Wednesday and
went to the home of Chief JUS
tice Day, where luncheon was serv-
ed. Accompanying him were Secre-
tary of State Root, Secretary of Ag-
riculture Wilson, Secretary of the
Interior Garfield, Surgeon General
Rixey, Secretary Loeb, and Secret
Service Operative Sloan
At 2 O'Clock the president and
Vice President Fairbanks and their
party were taken to the Mckinley
residence where the brief and simple
funeral service was observed.
The casket rested in the same
place where the body of President
Mckinley reposed while in the fami-
ly home after his death DR.. Buxton,
present pastor of the First M. E.
church, and Dr.. Holme, former pas
tor, had charge of the services.
Only four musical selections were
sung the same as were used at the
funeral of the president. A quar-
tette sang Beautiful Isle of Some
where . Lead, Kindly Light" and
Nearer My God to Thee" Mrs. Clark
accompanied by Mrs. Green sang a
duet, '"The Angel" by Rubinstein.
After the services the cortege left
for Westlawn cemetery. The presi-
dents carriage followed tn family
carriage and next in order were the
members of the party, then the Off
cials of the state and city. The
| procession was more than two miles
in length. The services at the Gem
! etery were brief.
Mrs. Fairbanks, wife of the vice
president. could not attend owing to
illness, but sent floral wreath.
Immediately after the services the
president was taken to the train
that will convey him to Indianapolis.