Arizona republican., 1915-03-13

erland recuperating from illness. Her husband was about to sail to join her but cancelled his passage and came here at once. Until the arrival of MT. Rockefeller funeral arrangements are Co le held in abeyance but it is thought at the Rockefeller house the burial will undoubtedly take place in Cleveland where the Rockefeller family plot is located. It is thought probable that the funeral services will be held at Po- cantico Hills Sunday and the body will at once be taken to Cleveland.
 Mrs Rockefellers illness dates back to the fall of 1912, when she was strick- en with pneumonia She virtually re- covered from this at Hot Springs, Va, but on returning to Cleveland in June, 1915 she again became i'll, due largely to her weakened condition and ad- vanced years She remained in Cleve- land until February 1914. when her physician decided that she was well enough to be taken to New York, going to the Rockefeller mansion there. Last November she was brought here.
 Mrs. Rockefeller had during this in terim become an invalid and was con- fined to wheel chair most of the time. Her rooms at the great Pocantico Hills mansion opened out on a large. sunny balcony and here on fair days she spent many hours in the open air. She was described at the Rockefeller home to- day as having been lately in the best af Nt,.t4 ,,1t 1ar- cheery message to her son. telling of her improved health
 The fatal change in her condition came during the early morning hours. Her nurses immediately summoned Dr. Paul Allen of New York her physician He made the thirtv-mile trip here at top speed in a high powered automo- bile and although he arrived some time before her death. he could do nothing to avert the end. She had been un- conscious for several hours and re- mained so to the last.
 Laura Celestia Spelman Rockefeller was born in Wadsworth Ohio. of we'll to-do New England parents. on Sep tember 9, 1899. She was her husbands s
 
 lived in Wadsworth, in Burlington. Ia. in Akron, O.. where her father. Harvey r. Spelman. achieved a competence in the drygOods business and later in Cleveland. In the grammar school at Cleveland she met John Rockefeller when they were fifteen years old
 In 1862 Miss Speman, described by 1<, o,,A1i 1i,, arian and perfect teacher. became as sistant principal oaf the Brownell street school Rockefeller. absorbed in business, took the books of his firm to her of an evening and together they would go over his affairs. Both If them were interested together in church work. too she as a Congrega- tionalist, he as a Baptist.
 They were married on September &, 1864. the eve of her twenty fifth birth day, and started to keep house in a lit . tie two-story brick residence on one of Cleveland's side streets. Upon her marriage. she became a Baptist and to her religion and her home she devoted her entire time.
 hV poiuVio VI iit-l Noll WVlC lcl home. Her whole life was wrapped up in her husband and children. She avoided all social functions and joined no clubs
 When MT. Rockefeller's wealth was mentioned in seven figures they left their first home for a residence re- markable only for it's unpretentiousness on Euclid avenue. Cleveland's mile of millions" Here Mrs. Rockefeller reared her four children: a fifth died in 1 infancy.
 She supervised every detail of the <, care and training of her children, par | ticularly seeking to instill in their minds the lesson of thrift It is related 1 that, on one occasion she averaged up the gas bills for a year and promised as spending money to her eldest daugh ! ter any sum she might save each month 1 by watching that no lights were left ! burning naedlo5sly
 | A relative told of her suffering under particularly bitter newspaper attack in Cleveland against her husband. Al her insistance, the guards around th- Forest Hill estate were doubled. AL | though MT. Rockefeller received scores