| Show IN DEATHSEMBRACE Sabbath at the McKinley House of Mourning PREPARING THE FUNERAL ALL TH CANTON MINISTERS WILL PARTICIPATE Services Will Be Held Tomorrow Afternoon at the Church Where Mother McKinley Was to Be Found Every Sunday Morning Since Her Reside la Canton Canton 0 Dec 12 Funeral services over the remains of Mrs Nancy Allison M E McKinley will be held in the First church of this city at 1 oclock Tuesday afternoon Interment will follow in West Lawn cemetery just west of the city I and Tuesday evening President McKinley I and wife and officials from Washington I who attend the funeral will leave for th3 capital reaching there about noon Wednesday Wed-nesday CHURCH SERVICES These are the arrangements so far as completed since the death of Mother Mc Kinlty shortly after 2 oclock this morning morn-ing l was at first thought by the family that the services should bG of a more private nature held at the old homestead I was learned however through the pastor of Mrs McKinleys church and members of the congregation as well as from other friends that the number of friends who desired to pay their last tribute of respect to the beloved woman by attending the obsequies could not be I i accommodated with such arrangements I j I and church services were decided upon Rev Dr Manchester the pastor of the I church has announced that it is his desire de-sire and that he will extend an invitation to have the ministers of all of the churches of the city of which there are about 30 occupy the pulpit and participate partici-pate in the services Pallbearers have been selected from I among the older members of the church and those who for years have been close neighbors of the deceased They are Judge William R Day Hon William A Lynch former mayor R A Cassidy L I L Miller W W Clark Judge T J Mc John F Blake MOTHER MKINLEYS CHURCH The First Methodist church in which I the services are to be held is the one in which Mother McKinley worshipped during dur-ing her residence in Canton and in which she was tound almost every Sunday morning morn-ing only serious indisposition or important import-ant circumstances keeping her away I Three weeks ago today she was in her pew as usual and though she was nearly 89 years Ut age she attended regularly all the while This is also the congregation with which the president has always been associated I was in this church that he was superintendent of the Sunday school 20 years ago and here that he always I al-ways attended services when in Canton usually going with his mother They last j I attended together last Sptember when i I the president was here during his summer vacation The president is a member of the board of trustees of the church I TOLLED OFF HER AGE At daylight thismorning at the suggestion ehbeer gestion or some of the older members of tne congregation that an oldtime custom cus-tom now almost obsolete be observed to I publicly announce the death the bell in the tower of tho church slowly tolled off the years of her age I I is a coincicierco that Mrs McKinley died at almost the indentical hour of the I day as did her husband on Thanksgiving five years ago President McKinley remained UD until I about 320 oclock a little more than an I hour after the death and then retired for a few hours sleep During the forenoon fore-noon he and his brother spent the greater I part of an hour walking about the more secluded streets near home securing muchneeded exercise and fresh air The president was greatly refreshed by the exercise although even before he seemed I little the worse physically for the trying ordeal of the past days during which except ex-cept when he went to Washington to at tend to official duties he kept an almost mother constatn vigil at the bedside of his THE CEMETERY In the afternoon the president and Ab I ner McKinley drove to beautiful West Lawn cemetery about a mile west of I the home to attend personally to arrangements ar-rangements for the Internment which will be made in the family lot where He the remains of the husband and tether which adjoIns the lot which for more than 20 years has contained tho bodies of the two children of the president and his wife under carefullykept mounds that are strewn with flowers whenever the parents come to Canton Today the president presi-dent tenderly and tearfully laid clusters of flowers on the graves while the sUe of the mothers resting place was selected se-lected Messages of condolence are pouring into the telegraph office from all quarters and many friends have already called at the house to offer sympathy I RELATIVES PRESENT Mr Stewart Bowman of Loraine the husband of one of Mrs McKinleys grandchildren grand-children joined the family circle this morning morlin The children and grandchildren except Mrs George B Morris of San Francisco a daughter of the late David McKinley and all of the immediate family were here for the closing scenes of the life Other relatives will come for the funeral fu-neral Assistant Secretary of State Day has remained as an old friend of the president presi-dent and Is assisting in making the funeral fu-neral arrangements During her life Mrs McKinley showed a fondness for visiting with her children and besides having them at her home as much as possible frequently visited their homes She spent one winter with her son David in California shortly before his death and frequently went to Somerset Somer-set Pa the home of her son Abner as well as to Pittsburg and later Cleveland the home of the Duncans |
