Mother of President William Mckinley; she married William McKinley, Sr., in 1829; she was 87 years old when her son became president; she died nine months after his inauguration.
Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, D.C.) December 13, 1897
Death Of Mrs. McKinley.
Mrs. Nancy Allison McKinley, mother of President McKinley, died at 2:30 o'clock yesterday morning at her home in Canton, Ohio.
She was stricken with paralysis twelve days ago and gradually sank until her death. Only her remarkable vitality enabled her to survive the attack so long. Her son, the President, had been almost constant in his attendance at her bedside except during the brief interval when he returned to Washington for the opening session of Congress.
Mrs. McKinley, who was Nancy Campbell Allison before she became wife of the President's father, was nearly 89 years old at the time of her death. The Allisons came originally from England and settled in Virginia, but that branch of the family from which Mrs. McKinley came went from Virginia to Greene county, Pa., where Abner Allison, Mrs. McKinley's father, was born, and where he married Ann Campbell, of Scotch-German descent.
Funeral services will be held in the First M.E. Church, Canton, at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Interment will follow in West Lawn Cemetery, just west of the city, and Tuesday evening President McKinley and wife and officials from Washington who attend the funeral, will leave for the Capital, reaching there about noon Wednesday.
All the members of the Cabinet whose official duties permit their leaving Washington at this time left for canton this evening to attend the funeral.
Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, D.C.) December 13, 1897
Death Of Mrs. McKinley.
Mrs. Nancy Allison McKinley, mother of President McKinley, died at 2:30 o'clock yesterday morning at her home in Canton, Ohio.
She was stricken with paralysis twelve days ago and gradually sank until her death. Only her remarkable vitality enabled her to survive the attack so long. Her son, the President, had been almost constant in his attendance at her bedside except during the brief interval when he returned to Washington for the opening session of Congress.
Mrs. McKinley, who was Nancy Campbell Allison before she became wife of the President's father, was nearly 89 years old at the time of her death. The Allisons came originally from England and settled in Virginia, but that branch of the family from which Mrs. McKinley came went from Virginia to Greene county, Pa., where Abner Allison, Mrs. McKinley's father, was born, and where he married Ann Campbell, of Scotch-German descent.
Funeral services will be held in the First M.E. Church, Canton, at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Interment will follow in West Lawn Cemetery, just west of the city, and Tuesday evening President McKinley and wife and officials from Washington who attend the funeral, will leave for the Capital, reaching there about noon Wednesday.
All the members of the Cabinet whose official duties permit their leaving Washington at this time left for canton this evening to attend the funeral.
Mother of President William Mckinley; she married William McKinley, Sr., in 1829; she was 87 years old when her son became president; she died nine months after his inauguration.
Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, D.C.) December 13, 1897
Death Of Mrs. McKinley.
Mrs. Nancy Allison McKinley, mother of President McKinley, died at 2:30 o'clock yesterday morning at her home in Canton, Ohio.
She was stricken with paralysis twelve days ago and gradually sank until her death. Only her remarkable vitality enabled her to survive the attack so long. Her son, the President, had been almost constant in his attendance at her bedside except during the brief interval when he returned to Washington for the opening session of Congress.
Mrs. McKinley, who was Nancy Campbell Allison before she became wife of the President's father, was nearly 89 years old at the time of her death. The Allisons came originally from England and settled in Virginia, but that branch of the family from which Mrs. McKinley came went from Virginia to Greene county, Pa., where Abner Allison, Mrs. McKinley's father, was born, and where he married Ann Campbell, of Scotch-German descent.
Funeral services will be held in the First M.E. Church, Canton, at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Interment will follow in West Lawn Cemetery, just west of the city, and Tuesday evening President McKinley and wife and officials from Washington who attend the funeral, will leave for the Capital, reaching there about noon Wednesday.
All the members of the Cabinet whose official duties permit their leaving Washington at this time left for canton this evening to attend the funeral.
Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, D.C.) December 13, 1897
Death Of Mrs. McKinley.
Mrs. Nancy Allison McKinley, mother of President McKinley, died at 2:30 o'clock yesterday morning at her home in Canton, Ohio.
She was stricken with paralysis twelve days ago and gradually sank until her death. Only her remarkable vitality enabled her to survive the attack so long. Her son, the President, had been almost constant in his attendance at her bedside except during the brief interval when he returned to Washington for the opening session of Congress.
Mrs. McKinley, who was Nancy Campbell Allison before she became wife of the President's father, was nearly 89 years old at the time of her death. The Allisons came originally from England and settled in Virginia, but that branch of the family from which Mrs. McKinley came went from Virginia to Greene county, Pa., where Abner Allison, Mrs. McKinley's father, was born, and where he married Ann Campbell, of Scotch-German descent.
Funeral services will be held in the First M.E. Church, Canton, at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Interment will follow in West Lawn Cemetery, just west of the city, and Tuesday evening President McKinley and wife and officials from Washington who attend the funeral, will leave for the Capital, reaching there about noon Wednesday.
All the members of the Cabinet whose official duties permit their leaving Washington at this time left for canton this evening to attend the funeral.
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