The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-05-27
MRS. M'KINLEY'S PRAYERS ANSWERED
(Scripps News Associatlon.)


will be no ostentatious funeral Of
Mrs. Mckinley. The coming of the
president and cabinet members will
not cause a a ceremonious
pageant and army and navy rep
resentatives will not be in uniform.
Factories and stores in Canton will
close 1t 2 o'clock Wednesday after
noon, the hour of the funeral. 1t is
expected the schools will also close
at noon Wednesday. The body will
be inferred beside her husbands
vault tn Woodlawn cemetery.
The body may lie in state, al
though opposition of relatives
makes this uncertain. The first
pallbearers selected served for her
husband. They are Henry Porter,
John c. Dueber, Joseph Biechle,
Robert A. Cassidy, George B.
Frease, R. s. Shields and G. C. Bow.
Justice Day will accompany the
family.
The long suffering of Mrs. Will
liam Mckinley ended peacefully in
death yesterday afternoon. She
had ben unconscious for days and
the end was scarcely noticeable to
those at her bedside.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed Wednesday at the First M. E.
church, of which the deceased and
her husband were life long men,
bers. President Roosevelt, Vice
President Fairbanks and other men
Of national reputation will attend
the funeral
Mrs. Mckinley had prayed for
death ever since the assassination
of her husband, in the belief that
she would thus be reunited with
him.
CANTON, Ohio, May 27.-De-
voted wifehood is the story of Mrs.
William McKinley's life. Hers was
her distinguished husbands career,
his joys and hopes hers. She was
the one upon whom he lavished
the tenderness Of great soul. She
was tender, fragile flower whom
he nurtured in the warmth of his
manly nature. She was for many
years an invalid and drew from him
IDC tItDutS VI oil tudI Is
all that is gentle.
Mrs. Mckinley was born at Cam
ton, Ohio, in June, 1S47.
AS Ida Saxton, Mrs. Mckinley
was a cashier in her fathers bank
In this city, when she met William
Mckinley, on January %, 1871, that
they were married and she took up
the responsibilities of wifehood like
many another young woman in the
broad land, with the highest aims
for happy life and the most rose
ate hopes for the future.
A little daughter came to bless
them. and this child lived four
years, when death overlook it.
Later the home of the McKinleys
was again made happy by the ad-
vent of daughter, but again the
couple was chastened. This sec
and child also died in infancy, and
the shock to the mother love OF
Mrs. Mckinley made her nervous
wreck. From that time on she was
an invalid.
To the bereavement In the loss
VI HSl CuiluIcu was duueu INC uCdtA
of Mrs McKinley's mother.
She resided in Washington dur
ing her husbands service in con-
gress In the late sos, and in Column
bus during the sos, when he was
governor.
Then came the elimination Of
Mrs. McKinley's faith and conf
dence in her husband, when, after
the long. exciting campaign for
president he was sent to the white
house by the people. 1t had been
largely because Of his devotion to
her that this campaign became ia
nous as the door yard cam
paign-a campaign in which his
notifications were held under the
trees of his lawn at Canton, where
he and his patient, suffering wife
greeted the thousands of delega-
tons that came to pledge their 10y
atty.
Then the fateful destiny that
made this gentlewoman life an I'M
murmuring martyrdom struck the
most cruel blow of all. She was at
Buffalo with the president on Sep