DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - DEATHS - Washington Post, February 18, 1890
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The Washington Post, February 18, 1890
Pages 2, 5, 6


DIED.

   SANGER.—At his residence, 3309 Prospect avenue,
February 16, 1890, Civil Engineer W.P.S. Sanger,
U.S.N., in the eightieth year of his age.
   Funeral from St. John’s Church (West Washington) on
Tuesday, the 18th instant, at 4 p.m. Interment
private.


   The funeral of Mrs. M.J. Cavanaugh, who died at her
residence, 3145 P street, will take place this
afternoon. Requiem mass will be said at Holy Trinity
church at 10 o’clock this morning.


Found Dead in Bed.
   Herman C. Drexell, a German piano-tuner, died in
his bed at 521 Eleventh street, of kidney and liver
diseases, resultant from excessive drinking. The
coroner gave a certificate of death from alcoholism.
Drexell has been separated from his wife and son for
some time because of his drinking.


Drowned in the Canal.
   An old soldier fell into the canal at Congress
street, Georgetown, last night and was drowned.
William Surges heard a splash about 8 o’clock and ran
to the edge of the placid canal. But by the time the
man could be taken out he was dead. He was about
forty-five years old and had on a G.A.R. badge. In his
pocket was an envelope addressed to “Christopher Edie,
Old War and Navy Division, Pension Office,” and a
ticket good for a meal at the Clifton Café on F
street. Papers in his pocket showed him to have been a
member of Company C, Twelfth New York Volunteer
Infantry. The body was taken to the Georgetown station
house, where it still is.


Death of Mrs. John G. Moore.
   The many friends of Mr. John G. Moore in this city
will be shocked to hear of the death of Mrs. Moore,
which occurred at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon. The
news was received here last night by telegram from New
York, and although not unexpected by those who have
been familiar with her condition, was still received
with great sorrow. Mrs. Moore had been in poor health
for many years, but last spring had very nearly
recovered, when the death of her son Evans, while she
and Mr. Moore were away on a yachting cruise in the
West Indies, caused such a shock as to produce nervous
prostration, and she has not been herself since. Last
June she was taken to Europe with the hope that a
change of scene and climate might benefit her, but she
got no better, and since her return last October has
been almost continuously confined to her bed, growing
weaker and weaker until her final dissolution. Mrs.
Moore was the daughter of the late John H. Aldrich, of
New York, and was married to Mr. Moore in 1872. Her
mother survives her, and she leaves two daughters,
Miss Ruth, who is sixteen years of age, and Miss
Faith, who is eleven.