Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1902 — MRS. U. S. GRANT DIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MRS. U. S. GRANT DIES.

Widow of President and General Grant Passes Away at Washington. Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, widow of General Ulysses S. Grant, former President of the United States, died at her residence in Washington, D. C., Sunday night, in the seventy-seventh year of her age. Mrs. Grant suffered from an old kidney trouble, which of late became decidedly aggravated. She also had decided symptoms of valvular disease of the heart. Recently Mrs. Grant was attacked by a cold, which aggravated the bronchial ailment of years’ standing. She has been critically ill since Friday, but had been confined to her bed for a greater part of the time since last October, when she returned from Coburg,

Canada. She was unable to stand up, and found it impossible-to eat while in bed. Consequently she had to be lifted to a chair and back again, and she had been practically helpless during the last three months. For nearly a month Mrs. Grant had been failing. Telegrams were sent to Mrs. Grant’s sons—General Fred D. Grant, U. S. A., commanding the department of Texas; Ulysses 8. Grant, Jr., and Jesse Grant, both of whom were at San Diego. Cal. — informing them of the sad event Mrs. Sartoris, Mrs. Grant’s daughter, was the

only one of her children at the bedside when the end came. Mrs. Grant was conscious almost to the last, and realised from the time of the change for the worse in her condition that there was little chance of her recovery.

MRS. U. S, GRANT.