Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1901 — MRS. LYMAN J. GAGE IS DEAD. [ARTICLE]

MRS. LYMAN J. GAGE IS DEAD.

Wife of the Secretary of the Treasury Sinks Into the Final Sleep. Mrs. Lyman J. Gage, wife of the Secretary of the Treasury, died at 9:30 o’clock Friday evening at their home in Washington, D. C. The immediate cause of death was heart' failure, a result of wasted strength due to an attack of the grip. Mrs. Gage was conscious almost to the last moment. At the final moment there were present at her bedside her husband, her daughter, Mrs. Pierce of Evanston, 111., Dr. Johnston and a trained nurse. 1 Mrs. Gage was taken ill on March 11. while on a visit to her daughter. On that day she wrote the Secretary that she had had a chill ami that the doctor had ordered her to bed. For ten days she remained ill at Evanston and then recovered sufficiently to go to Washington. Immediately after her arrival there she suffered* a relapse and went to bed again, never to rise. Rheumatism supervened, accompanied by low and persistent fever. Her strength gradually wasted* and for several weeks Secretary Gage has lived in the shallow of the approaching death of his helpmeet. Mrs. Gage was loved by all who knew her. Though never fond of formal society, since going to Washington she had endeavored to do her duty as the second lady of the cabinet. During the past winter Mrs. Hay, wife of the Secretary of State, has been in mourning, and this has thrown more than the usual burder upon Mrs. Gage. But friends of the family deny that devotion 'to social duties had anything to do with the breaking down of her health. > Marriage Has Its Romance. Mrs. Gage was Miss'Cornelia Lansing of Albany. N. ¥., a member of one of the well-known families of the East. As a very young woman she became the bride of Lloyd G. Gage, a brother of Lyman J. Gage. Lloyd Gage had been a semi-invalid for many years and in a few years became more frail and weak and the climate of Colorado was sought with the hopes that it might give new life to the sufferer. He soon died, however, leaving his widow in the very prime of life. Lyman J. Gage had likewise married, and shortly after the death of his brother sickness and death entered his family and left him a widower. Mr. Gage was then an employe of a bank. Since the death of the brother Mr. Gage and his sister-in-law had been in correspondence, the grief of both proving a bond of friendship and sympathy. However, there had been little exchange of sentiment and the story goes that the betrothal finally came by telegraph. A letter from Mr. Gage to his sister-in-law told her that after mature deliberation he had come to the conclusion that she was the woman to be his wife. He earnestly hoped that she agreed with him. If so, he begged her to telegraph him the one word “Yes.” If she did not no answer was necessary. The marriage followed at the home of a relative in Denver and ■was a most happy one.