The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-13
MRS. WILSON DIES
IN WHITE HOUSE
Strain ct Social Duties and
Welfare Work fastened End
PRESIDENT AT HER BEDSIDE
Presidents Family at Bedside When
End comes-ln Conformity With
Mrs. Wilson's Desire Congress
Hastily Passes Anti-Sium Bill.

Hastily Passes Anti-Sium Bill.
Washington.-Mrs Woodrow Wilson
the wife Of the President, died a
4 5 o'clock in the evening in the Whit
House. Her death resulted from
F, Br;ght's disease, from which she hat
been a sufferer since she came tt
the White House. She was in hel
50th year.
Recently this had been aggravated
by a general nervous breakdown
which began when she was injured
by a fall on the marble floor of the
White House in February and was
accelerated by the strenuous social
/ season and oyer-activity in social
betterment work and other hunmani.
tartan endeavors.
Mrs. Wilson had known that her
! death was near. With her at the end
were. the President and their three
daughters, Mrs. Sayre, Mrs. McAdoo
and Miss Margaret Wilson. Several
times in the course Of the day Mrs.
Wilson was conscious and an hour
before her death, aroused sufficiently
to bestow peaceful smile Of recog-
milton and farewell upon the Presi-
dent and each of her children.
Soon after II o'clock in the morn
ing Mrs. Wilson was cheered by the
knowledge that the Senate of the
United States had passed the Johnson
bill abolishing slums from the capital,
for which she had worked zealously
last fall.
Earlier in the morning she had told
the President that she believed she
could go more cheerfully If she knew
the bill was passed. The President,
through Secretary Tumulty, communi-
Gated Mrs. Wilson's wish to Congress
and the task of making the bill a law
was undertaken with extraordinary
haste. AS soon as the President
learned of the passage of the bill by
the Senate he fastened to carry the
news to the sick room.
About noon, when the President |
was absent from the sick room for
a few minutes, Mrs. Wilson sent for
DR.. Cary T. Grayson and said to him: |
Doctor, If l go away promise me-
you will take good care of my hus-
band"
Mrs. Wilson died in the big bedroom
1t the southwest corner of the White
House which overlooks the Potomac
River. The President sat beside the
bed holding her hand and on the other
ide her daughters were kneeling. She
lad been unconscious for nearly an
Jour-
Dr. Grayson was the only other per-
on in the room. In an adjoining
DOM were the Presidents sons-in-law.
1r. Sayre and Mr.. McAdoo. Mrs. Will
on's brother, Prof. Stockton Arson Of
'r1nceton, who was informed of her
rltlcal condition at once, was I'M
Bile to reach here from Portland. Ore.
For the last two days Mrs. Wilson
ad been kept alive largely by the
Emulation of oxygen. Realizing that
lie end was near the President can
eled all engagements. He left the
edroom only once before the end
anne, and then only for a short au- /
mobile ride in the early morning. t
Mrs. Wilson was born Ellen Louise {
xsen at Savannah, Ca, of Samuel +
dward and Margaret Axsen. She i
as educated at home and at Wom- t
rs College, Rome, Ga. She had a 9
lent for art and spent some time v
udying in the Art Students League b
New York r.
Her devotion to painting afforded is
r much happiness and inspiration. e
The wedding of Woodrow Wilson n
ID MISS Axsel, took place at Savannah N
June "a, 1885. Miss Axsen had met =
r. Wilson when he was practicing la
at Atlanta, Georgia, in 1882. They b
arried just after Mr.. Wilson finished o,
postgraduate work in Johns Hon.
rs University and with the degree
Phi. D. accepted the position Of
sociate professor of history and no. g;
cal economy in Bryn Mawr College -.
Mrs. Wilson and her husband were - =,
closest of companions and the -
me life that she created for her his. -.
nd and the three daughters born =
them was always, regarded as ideaL1