Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-01-09
Ex.President Roosevelt
Dead at Oyster Bay.
Found by his Wife When She
Went to his Room.

Oyster Bay, N. Y, January g.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, former Pres
ident of the United States, died early
today at his home here, the end COM
ing peacefully while the great Amer
lean was sleeping.
His sudden death is believed tC
have been due to rheumatism, which
affected his heart.
Colonel Roosevelt sat up most OF
Sunday and retired at eleven O'Clock
last night.
About four O'Clock this morning
Mrs. Roosevelt, the only member OF
the family at home, went to the Col
oncl's room and found that he had
died during the night.
The immediate cause of Colonel
Rooscvelt's death was the lodging in
the lung of Il clot of blood from a
broken vein, one of his physicians
stated. Three physicians had been
attending the former President since
he had been taken to the Roosevelt
Hospital seven weeks ago to he treat
ed for what was believed to have been
sciataca. The trouble was later dag
nosed as inf1ammatory rheumatism,
which, one doctor said, had affected
practically every Joint in the body.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, twenty
sixth President of the United States,
will be laid to rest, without pomp or
ceremony, in Young's Memorial Gem
etery, in this village, Wednesday
afternoon. He will be buried on a
knoll overlooking Long Island Sound
a plot which he and Mrs. Roosevelt
selected soon after he left the White
House.
In the words of the clergyman who
will conduct the funeral service,
Americas most typical American"
known in every corner of the earth,
will 60 to his grave as a quiet, dem
ocratic, Christian country gentleman
beloved by his neighbors."
After prayers at the Roosevelt
home, al which only members of the
family will be present, the funeral
service will be held at 12.45 O'Clock
in Christ Episcopal Church, the little
old frame structure where for years
the Colonel and his family attended
divine worship.
At the request of Mrs. Roosevelt,
no flowers will be sent. The altar
will be decorated only with laurel
placed on it for the Christmas season.
Also, in conformance with Mrs.
Roosevelt's wishes, there will be no
music and no eulogy, but only the
simple service of the Episcopal Church
conducted by the pastor, the Rev.
George E. Talmage.
Cable messages and kilograms of
coincidence not only from fellow
country-men of high and low degree
but from distinguished citizens of
many nations were pouring into Oys-
ter Bay tonight by the hundreds. All
express heartfelt grief at the passing
of great man and deepest sympathy
for Mrs. Roosevelt, always devoted to
her distinguished husband and one
of his most trusted advisers. The
widow is bearing up bravely under
the shock of his sudden death, COM
ing 50 soon after that of their young
est son, Lieut.. Quentin Roosevelt,
who lost his life in battle with
German airman last July.
The death of Colonel Roosevelt is
believed by the physicians who at
tended him to have been fastened by
grief over Quentin's death, coupled
with anxiety over the serious wounds
suffered by Capt. Archie Roosevelt
while fighting in France.
He was proud of his soldier sons
and their heroism, but he was a de-
voted father and he grieved for the
one who gave his life for his country
Is well as for the other who was
wounded. He hid his suffering from
,he world, however, in the hope that
ne might set an example for other
athers and mothers who had given
their sons to the nation.