Show t MRS MKINLEY DEAD I Passed From Life In the Early 1 Hours of the Morn t PEACEFUL DISSOLUTION NO SUFFERING DURING H r LAST ROUt ROU-t Her Last Day On Earth and the Vigil of the President Partook of i a Little Nourishment Character of the Woman Who Gave Birth t a President f Canton 0 Dec 12Mrs Nancy A lison McKinley passed from life at a few minutes past 2 oclock with all her children and other immediate relatives at her bedside She did not suffer any in her last hours but gradually passed from the deep palsied sleep in which she ha rested almost constantly for the past ten days into the sleep of death No word could be secured from the house for some hours before the dissolution disso-lution Knocks of reporters as well as those of telegraph messengers were unanswered At 235 an undertaker was summoned and the first publicity given to the public of the death TH END BEAUTIFUL The end was most beautiful in its quIet peacefulness She seemed to sleep so soundly that it was difficult soundl to tell whether she had yet breathed her lat This condition continued for talf a hour There was no struggle She seemed to sleep her life away The president and all of the family were by her side There were no recognitions recogni-tions however Her last consciousness was hours bfor her final taking away to make At 3 a m it is impossible m not arrangements It is known any I believed that any will be made until beleved few the much worn family have 3 hours of rest and sleep The president at 3 oclock this morning appeared i1 the best of health WORN OUT WITH WATCHING out the family worn At 330 a m famiy with long watching were retiring for house rest the McKinley the first in for the ten long days and nights The presidents wife has stood the strain presidents better it was feared she might The family in their long vigil have all seemed possessed of the great strength of the mother whose vitality at nearly the expectations of the SO surpassed expettions doctors and delayed the end for ten in few hours days that was expected a tenth Canton 0 Dee llThis the has day of Mrs McKinleys illness 111 been marked by a number of material changes none of which has permanently perma-nently improved the condition of the I nnt and as darkness approached patient ad those a around her that she it was felt by bad finished the lat day of her life s fnished was resting compara journey wa restng joure but a great time tIvIy easy at that Jeat da1 At wEaker tIle dawn of day i was felt that for about that the end was at hand tat tlE experienced wa one of the sink time to the illness and mg spells common iness for a long time seemed so nearly inan it appeared no rally was imate that rly wa possible But the rally came and with pss which she was able to IV condition in wa it a take conditon a amount of liquid nourish mVnt the first she has taken since last This was followed by such Monday was peaceful repose Tl1s as to revive the hope realized a that she would which was reaIzed live through the day ANOTHER SINKING SPELL SOTFER of another period In the afternoon aother perod the watch anxiety was experienced by Ety Another sinking spell came and er spel cme t Anoter would it though it seemed as for a time i lie tme lat Since then she has continued con-tinued very weak and low trued doctor called at 530 oclock and relJrt d that he found a material change for the ore such as he regarded re-garded as certain to bring about final dissolution a during the night He had dissoluton not even faint hope that she could live until morning PRESIDENTS VIGIL President McKinley continued his vigil all dry much as he did the preceding ii al ceding days He sat almost constantly CEding in the sick room and there secured about all the rest he had He had the newspapers at his side and when the mother rested most peacefully he glanced at their columns for the news of the day Late in the afternoon he house and his wife emerged from the and took a few turns on the porch for exercise and a little fresh air and a little laterhe and his brother Abner had a similar wak Aside from this he had scarcely been out of the room He is kept informed of the affairs of the from tate by communications White House and judging from the ie of messengers there art many telegrams of sympathy and solicitous inquiry being received from friends of in various parts of rime mother and son vaious the fountry THIS DAY IS CRITICAL When Dr Phillips left the McKinley house tonight at 1015 he announced to the Associated Press representative still living but that Mrs McKinley was stiling much weaker than when he saw her h several hours befpre Her respiration j p was 60 which is materially higher than it He said he had ever before found it he thought she would die in the early houis of the morning but that there I t was a possibility of her living Sunday wa f but not of surviving the day The president again resumed the vigil at the bedside most of the others of the family retiring but expecting to be summoned at any moment THE MOTHERS CHARACTER Distinctively HomeLoving Woman Affection For William Afetion Mrs McKinley was distinctively a liomeiovmg woman and the two story frame cottage on West Tuscara was street in this city where she died wa and where she had lived for many years Was dearer to her than any yer otrer spot on earth There she spent her declining days with her daughter Helen and her grandchildren Grace and James McKinley receiving occa ioaally visits from her other children seldom going out except to church where she could be found every Sunday Sun-day morning unless prevented by Illness W ill-ness While showing deep affection for her other children she had followed the p career or William with pride and solicitude so-licitude With fond motherly admon iti ition sae watched him rise from the position of prosecuting attorney lor his successive own county and by stages to OWl congressman governor and finally to the presidency Durln the memorable memor-able campaign of last year for the nomination and afterward for the election Mn McKinley was one of the ost interested observers She was always given the place of honor at the home of her illustrious son and on the day of his nomination by the S1 Louis dj convention she heard the news a soon as ne Old It was then that William iicKinlej showed the deep love he had t > ore for his mother by kissing her as soon as he had received the announcement announce-ment of the result at St Louis l through the trying campaign that followed > fol-lowed she watched after her son with deep interest She was a frequent fcaller at his home and was greeted by anany of the visiting delegates She accompanied the president to the inauguration in-auguration riding li the special train and remained 5u Washington until Mr nd Mrs McKinley had becoms settled L J 9 u < c T in their new home Then she returned to the Canton cottage with expressions I of gratitude at getting home once more Nancy Allison McKinley came of a family which was transplanted from England to the hills of Virginia The Allison family subsequently removed to Green county Pennsylvania where Abner Allison Nancys father was born and where he married Ann Campbell of ScotchGerman descent Early in the present century Mr and Mrs Allison came from Pennsylvania to Columbia counts this state traveling travel-ing by pack horses In 1809 near the present city of Lisbon Nancy Allison was born Her girlhood was passed on the farm and in 1827 she Married Wil trried I lam McKinley a young iron manufacturer manufac-turer The couple lived first at Fairfield Fair-field and afterward at Niles and Poland Po-land before moving to Canton Nine children were born t them They were David Allison deceased Anna deceased James deceased Mary deceased de-ceased Helen Minerva now living at Canton Sarah Elizabeth now the wife of Mr A J Duncan of Cleveland William the president Abigail Celia deceased and Abner whose home is in New York William McKinley sr died in November No-Vember 1892 attheageof 85 years |