The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-14
SALT TRIBUNE

The clear and healthy nuslr on ms
check and his sprightly manner brought
tho remark from both OF us, that VIC
had never seen the general look so we'll.
On Thursday, December l.; the gen.
cral rode out to his farms about iV
O'Clock and did not return home uhtii
half-DaSt three. Soon after nc went OUT
the weather became very bad, rain nan.
snow falling alternately, with cold wind:
In The evening he showed evidences oi
having i8Een cold and complained OF
sore throat. Io went out the following
day, however. to mark some trees, upon
his retiring II was noticed that he had
grown quite hoarse. Between ana
o'clock on saturday morning of the tsta,
day he awokc Mrs. Washington and told
hcr that he was very unwell and had
had d chill. She observed that he con,o coi.
scarcely speak. and brenthed with dif'
ficulty. He refused 10 have the house
hold aroused until morning. when DI.
Craik was sent for. Who WAS very much
alarmed at The generals condition and
advised u consultation with several othef
nclghboring physicians.
They administered 10 him, but The
medicine seemed 10 take no cncct' 10
the respectful and affectionAto injuries
OF an old family servant, as shc
smoothed down his pillow. how nc ielt.
he answered. II am very III To Mrs"
Washington he said: GO to my desk,
and in q private drawer you will nnd
two pnperS-bring them TO me. They
were brought. Upon looking at them he
observed; These arc my wills-preserve
accordingly done
He grew gradually worse, About .
| O'Clock in the afternoon he said to DR..
Creik who was at his bedside: Doctor.
| die hard but l am not afraid to go.
| l believed. from my first attack. that |
should not survive 1t. Ny breath cannot
| last long"
The doctor pressed his hand. but could
| not utter 2 word He retired from tic
bedside and sat by the fire absorbed In
grief. About o'clock the consu'tins
physicians were about his bedside, and
he held out his hand TO he raised UP
In bed. He said to the physicians: 81
feel myself going: | thank You for you:
attentions: but ] pray YOU 10 take no
| more trouble about me. Let Inc so OF
quietly, ] cannot last long"
About 10 o'clock at night he tried 10
| speak. but he MAS hardly audible, and
after giving a few directions. he asked
the physicians: DO you understand
me- When they replied yes, he said:
'Tis well. which were the last words
the Father of our Country ever uttered
| While those about the bedside "erf
fixed i'm silent grief Mrs Washington
who was sitting at the foot nj the bed
asked, with a firm and collected voice;
ply, but simply nod their answer. ''Tls
| we'll said she in the same voice, al
is now over. I will soon follow him;
have no more trials 10 pass through.
About - o'clock tho BODY WAS carrieC
downstairs and laid out in tho large
| drawing room. Tho burial took place ths
| following Wednesday. December lS his
remains being deposited in the family
vault at Mt. Vernon
| The sudden tldipS Of his death fell like
q domestic sorrow upon the hearts o.
tho people; lamentations and solemn OBJ
sequies filled the land-and. Throughout
the whole world the event was heard witt
| the deepest emotion. Nearly forty yea y
after his death and burial his remains
together with those OF his wife. were re
| intombed, In order to their being placed
In tho marble rDfflnS which had hpGY
generously offered for that purpose b,
a patriotic citizen of Philadelphia TO IN,
legal representatives OF the departed
chieftan. This was in 1897.
on December 4. l1Ia the first numoe