Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1908 — EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND DEAD. [ARTICLE]

EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND DEAD.

Grover Cleveland, twentysecond and twenty-fourth President of the United States, died at his home in Princeton, N. J., at 8:40 o’clock Wednesday morning. He had been in poor health for some months, but the end came suddenly and was due to heart trouble complicated with other diseases. Mr. Cleveland was 71 years of age. He was married to Miss Frances Folsom in the White House June 2, 1886, who with four children survives him. In his death the only remaining ex-president is gone. Deep homage to his memory is being paid by the people of this and foreign countries, and flags are at half mast all over the country. The f«n«ral was held yesterday.