Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1918 — WIDOW OF GARFIELD IS DEAD [ARTICLE]

WIDOW OF GARFIELD IS DEAD

Mrs. Lucretia R. Garfield, widow of James A. Garfield, twentieth president of the United States, died at her home in South Pasadena, California, Wednesday, aged eightysix years. She was the mother ol Federal Fuel Administrator H. A. Garfield and former Secretary of the Interior James R. Garfield. Burial will be made in Lakeview cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, where the former president is buried. The death of Mrs. Garfield recalls the assassination of her husband by Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881, in the waiting rootm of a railroad station in Washington. Two shots were filed by Guiteau, one bullet passing through the President’s arm while the other entered his back, and he fell senseless to the floor. He lingered for eighty days before death ensued on September 19, 1881, at a seaside cottage near Long Brandi, where he had been taken in the hope that the sea air would prove beneficial to him.