The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-01-06
DEATH COMES
SUDDENLY TO
EX-PRESIDENT
AT HIS HOME
Clot on Lung Was Cause,
Physicians Say-Had Been
I'll From Rheumatism Since
New Years.
FUNERAL TO Be PRIVATE
tBy Associated Press,

| (By Associated Press'
NEW YORK, Jan. 6-Colonel
/! Theodore Roosevelt died at his
home in Oyster Bay about a
o'clock this morning.
News of the death of the for
mer president was received here
by Miss Josephine Stricken, who
said the former president had
suffered an attack of inflamma-
tory rheumatism New Years
/ day and had been confined to his
! room since then. His condition
did not appear alarming, and the
turn for the worse was believed
not to have come until last night.
The rheumatism settled main
! ly in his right hand, which was
badly swollen. Mrs. Roosevelt
and nurse from the village hos
pital were with Colonel Roose-
velt when he died.
Col. Rooseyelt's funeral will be
held at 12:45 p. m. Wednesday
at the Christ Episcopal church
lat Oyster Bay, and at the re-
quest of Mrs. Roosevelt, VIII aa.,
private.
| The Rev. DR.. George Talmage,
pastor, is expected to officiate.
Col. Roosevelt will be buried
at Youngs Memorial cemetery.
Oyster Bay, in a plot selected by
the colonel and his wife shortly
after he left the White House.
The exact time of Col. Roose-
velt's death was Ais a. m. as
nearly as can be determined, for
there was no person at his bed
side at the moment he passed
away. A minute or two before,
his attendant, James Amos, the
young colored man who has been
in the employ of the colonel ever
since he left the White House,
noticed that the patient was
breathing heavily in his sleep
and went to call a nurse. When
he returned with her the former
president was dead. Mrs. Roose-
welt was Immediately summoned.
/ Mrs. Roosevelt telephoned to
lColonel Emlen Roosevelt, cousin
of the former president and he
5came to the Roosevelt home inn
mediately. kilograms were dis
patched to the coloners children,
who were in other parts of the
country. Two of the coloners
sons, Major Theodore Roosevelt
Jr., and Captain Kermit Roose-
welt, are in service abroad. Cap
tain Archie Roosevelt and his
wife left New York last night for
Boston, where the captains
wife's father is i'll Mrs. Ethel
Derby and her two children are
in Aiken, S. c.
The immediate cause of Col.
Roosevelt's death was pulmon-
airy embolism or Judgement in
the lung of a clot from a broken
vein, it was stated by one of his
physicians.
Col. Roosevelt's last illness r1ay be
said to date from last February. On
! February it was announced that he
had been removed from his home in
Oyester Bay to the Roosevelt hospital
in this city. following an operation on
one of his ears Soon after his arrival
at the hospital he underwent two
more operations for the removal of
diseased tissue in his infected ear and
! Il was admitted at the time that he
was seriously ILL., He remained at the
| hospital until March 3.
| During May and June the colonel
| made number Of addresses. speaking
| at Springfield, Mass, and in New York
| In June he made a tour of the west
during which he suffered slight at
tack OF erysipelas in one Of his legs.
but refused to give up his engage
| ments. Early in November the colonel
was taken to Roosevelt hospital in this
! city for the treatment of rheumatism
and sciatica. While in the hospital
/ reports became current that the
colonel was more seriously i'll than
his physicians would admit. Colonel
Roosevelt returned to his hcmes in
| Oyster Bay on Christmas day. remark
ing as he stepped TO the porch that
| he was feeling bully"