Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1889 — END OF A WORTHY LIFE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

END OF A WORTHY LIFE.

THE WIFE OF THE EX-PRESIDENT . PASSES AWAY. A Stroke of Paralysis Prostrated Her, and She Never Rallied —Brief Sketch of the Life of a Noble aud Accomplished Woman. A Fremont (Ohio) dispatch of the 25th says: Mrs. Hayes died at 6:30 o'clock this morning of paralysis, with which she was stricken down the previous Friday. Mrs. Hayes maiden name was Lucy Ware Webb. She was bora Aug. 28, 1831, at Chillicothe, Ohio, and was the youngest child and only daughter of Dr. James Webb and Maria Cook. Her grandfather, Judge Isaac Cook, came from Connecticut in 1781, and he, together with all of her great-grandfathers, served in the revolu-

tionary war. Her father served in the war of 1812, and during tho cholera scourge in Lexington, Ky.. in 1888. Her mother, Maria Cook Webb, was a woman of great forco of character and deep religious convictions. She removed to Delaware to have her son educated at the Ohio Wesleyan university r and her daughter received the benefit of the same instruction and was afterward graduated at the Wesleyan Female seminary at Cincinnati in 1852. Mrs. Hayes was married Dec. 18, 1852. At the breaking out of the rebellion her husband and both of her brothers immediately entered the army, and from that time until the close of the war her home was a refuge for wounded, sick, and furloughed soldiers, going to or returning from the front. She spent two winters in camp with her husband in Virginia, and after the battle of South Mountain, where he was badly wounded, she hastened east and jo n«d him at Middletown, Md , and later spent much time in the hospital near Frederick City. After the close of the war she accompanied her husband to Washington while he was a member of Congress. She was one of the originators of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphans’ home, and was on its board of directors before it passed into the hands of the State. While her husband was Governor of Ohio she took an active interest in all the charitable institutions of the State. During the four years of her life at the White House she was distinguished by the graceful cordiality with which she received all who came to her. Since the retirement of her husband from public life she has leen an ardently interested member of the Woman’s Relief corps, and has served during successive years as president of the Woman's Home Missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church. She has been an honorary member of the Society of the Army of West Virginia.

MRS. R. B. HAYES.