Show THE LAST of the men who hare killed ruled ills great Ol cleveland eveland loader leader john adams and thomas jefferson both died on the thet same aine day aud and that on the ath of july 1826 1896 they were friends during their latter y years m s and adams last words were thomas jeffeerson JefTer Jef fierson aon still live Q but lut history shows that he is mis taken had died an nix hour before exclaiming M lord now let test thou thy servant depart in peace and resign my soul to god and my daughter to my country john quincy adams gave his last breath in the capitol at washington ea baying y ing this is the end oada of earth rth I 1 am content and gen harrison who died in in the white house said sir I 1 wish you to understand the tile principles of government aivish I 1 wish them carried I 1 out I 1 ask nothing more Gar garfielda fields last reported words as he lay racked by his terrible wound were But Lincoln Linco n became unconscious when he was shot and remained so till he died george washington was bane dur duri ing his last hours and he lie spent them in calmly arranging his he told his wife to bring two wills which he had bad made and to burn ono one of them he ire then grasped his pulse with one hand band and counted the beats until he dropped back dead washington died of a cold polk of the cholera andrew johnson of paralysis and general harrison qu of cold pi pleurisy and cholera morbra president jackson was for thirty one years a diseased man and the latter part of his life was spent in almost continuous continuo ds pain even ven on his deathbed he wae wite tortured by office 1 I am dying said he pas as fast as ican I 1 can and an they all know it but they keep swarming i about me in crowd crowds seeking for office intriguing for office his deathbed scene keeno was waa a roost most affecting one A half an hour before it his is death his children and friends were standing around his bedside and his adopted son andrew had bad ta taken ken his hand band and whispered in his ear father how bow do you feel do you know me know you yes I 1 should know OW bodall if I 1 could see bring roe me my spectacles these were brought and put on him and he be said where is my daughter and marian god will take care of you for me iam I am my gods gd I 1 belong to him I 1 go but a short tit time no before you and I 1 want to meet you all white and black in in heaven at this a all ll 11 burst into tears and the general said what is the matter with you my my dear children have I 1 alarmed you oh olt dont cr cry 1 be good children and we will aarm all meet beet in heaven these were jacksons last w words A short time after this he passed peacefully away he died a christian and a presbyterian thomas jefferson was md more ro of a deist than anything else and when ho he died he said he would be glad to see bee 1 a preacher who called as a good neighbor thereby intimating that he did not caro edro to see him hini professionally irones sio nally there wa was no preacher present at deathbed and there ia is doubt as to his belief I 1 the two adamsey believed in uni doctrines and it ia is said that hohti quincy adams during his last y years bars never went without repeating atin that little childs prayer now I 1 la lay me down to sleep I 1 pray ta tho 0 lord d my soul to keep if I 1 should die before I 1 wake I 1 pray the lord my soul to take there thello is considerable doubt as Lincol ns christianity but his best friends believe him to be a believer he ile was certainly a great bible reader and understood it thoroughly frank F rank pierce was an episcopalian a and nd a church member ge gens na grant and hayea attended the methodist church while in the oloe laid garfield spent his sundays at the tile chapel of tho the disciples john tyler was I 1 think a Presby presbyterian teil ian though his second w difo was a catholic dolly madison on was an tin E episcopalian pisco whatever her husband may have been and the old church which she site attended years ao ago still stands and rind in it president ti arthur Aithur worships to day |