Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1891 — The Death of Washington. [ARTICLE]

The Death of Washington.

On the 12th of December, 1799, General Washington spent several hours on horseback, riding over his farm and giving directions to his manager. He returned late in the afternoon, wet and

i f» ; v y Ichilled with rain andislcet. (The water had perpetrated to his neck, and snow wa# lodged in, the )opkso£ fyis ( halr. h Next day a heavy snow, fall iu-'evcptcOis going out much. He 1 complained of a sore throat, but passed the evening cheerfully with his wife, reading the newspapers. In the night he had an ague, and before the dawn of Saturday the 14th, the soreness of throat had b<?oom,ft sdAetbre that he breathed and spoke with- tfiffltfulty. He was bled, at his own request, by his overseer; physicians Were summoned, but their remedies were useless. Toward, evening he said ;to Dr. Craik, his family “I die hard, bnt I am hot afraid to die. I believed front my fifriit attack that I should not survi ve,it Afy„brcat$ t cannot last long!? <ierai> <■> D iruirm. r-d / A doctors to do nothing further, but let him die quietly. H» sank quietly into death between 10 and 11 on the night of Dee. 14. His last words were; “I am,just going. Have mb decently burled, artel do not let my body be put into the vatilt in less than three days after lam dead. Do you understand me?” he said to his secretary.

who murmured, “YcsT* “’Tis well,; said)?Wsfilhgton, and spoke -1.0 more. T 4 ossa