Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1907-05-30
MRS. VIM. Mckinley DEAD
Died Sunday at Noon at Her Home In
Canton 0hIo-Prssident Roosevelt
Attended the Funeral

o'clock Sunday afternoon Mrs. Will
liam Mckinley fell into the sleep that
knows no awaking. The transition
from life to death was so peaceful
and gradual that 1t was with difficulty
that the vigilant physicians and at
tendants noted when dissolution
finally came. There was no struggle
nor pain.
At the Mckinley home when death
came, there were present: Secretary
Cortelyon, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. c.
Barber, Mrs. Sarah Duncan, Mrs.
Luther Day, Justice and Mrs. VIM.
r. Day, Drs. Portman and Rixey
and the nurses.
The funeral arrangements so far as
made are that DR.. Buxton will have
charge of the services, which are to
be simple. They will be held at the
Mckinley home at clock Wednes-
day afternoon.
Secretary Cortelyon is directing
the arrangements and will remain
here until after the funeral. DIR.
Rixey left Sunday evening for Wash
ington to join President Roosevelt.
1t is announced that President Roose-
welt and Secretary Loeb will arri> e
in Canton Wednesday morning to
attend the funeral services. Vice
president Fairbanks, who had often
been house guest of the McKinleys
is expected also.
The body of Mrs. Mckinley will
be placed in the vault in the West
Lawn cemetery, which holds the
remains of her husband, until the
completion of the national masoleum
on Monument hill, when both Baskets
will be transferred to receptacles in
that tomb.
Mrs. Barber received numerous
kilograms of coincidence on the death
of her sister. Among them were
kilograms from President Roosevelt
and Vice President Fairbanks.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Ida Saxton Mckinley was born in
Canton, June s, 1S47. James A.
Saxton, her father, was an intellect
ual, progressive business man banker.
His wife was a woman of extraordi-
nary culture and refinement. Ida
Saxton was reared in a home of COM
fort and ease.
After attending the Canton schools,
she was a pupil at private school at
Delhi, n. Y. and later went to
Cleveland academy and finished her
education at Brook Hall seminary,
Redia, Pennsylvania.
While she taught Sunday school
in the Presbyterian church, young
lawyer, William Mckinley, was
superintendent OF the First Methodist
Episcopal Sunday school. Among
many admirers and sultors the hand
some young soldier, who had been
with Grant and Sherman and won
distinction in the Shenandoah valley,
was the favored one and on January
25, 1871, William Mckinley and
Ida Saxton were married.
There were born to them two
daughters, Katie, on Christmas day
of 1871 and Ida, on April l, 1873.
But the heartstrings Of the mothers
tenderest love were broken when Ida
passed away in August, 1873, Mrs.
McKlnley's mother having died the
month before the little one was born.
Katie lived three and ono-half years
and she then passed from earth.
Then 1t was that the almost broken
hearted wife became an invalid.
Among her diversions was the
crocheting Of slippers, which she be-
slowed as keepsakes to friends, hand.
ed to the needy or gave to- bazaars.
More than $500 pairs of slippers
we're knitted by her and given away.
The estate left by the President
was appraised at $215, 600 when the
inventory was made and has since
Increased in value. By the terms Of