00:19 - Wheatland

00:20 - is part of

00:21 - Lancaster history today

00:22 - and

00:23 - we have about eleven

00:24 - of mr Buchanan's original twenty two and a half acres that made up his farm

00:29 - over here on the

00:31 - sort of center of the farm.

00:33 - Is the the mansion.

00:37 - Roughly.

00:39 - Little over.

00:41 - Twelve thousand square feet

00:43 - in size

00:45 - it had dependencies on the property

00:48 - today the

00:50 - surviving dependencies are a two chamber outhouse.

00:54 - May have been referred to as a privy

00:57 - and we also have.

00:59 - The two story.

01:01 - Ice house and smokehouse combination which was a

01:04 - smokehouse on the top floor and an icehouse on the bottom.

01:09 - There was a.

01:11 - A stable or carriage house on the property we

01:14 - have one today

01:16 - which is a two story

01:18 - carriage house

01:19 - but that was built in eighteen ninety three the one that is still with us today.

01:23 - That was built by George Wilson who would have been the last owner of the farm

01:27 - the house was built for a man named William Jenkins who was.

01:32 - Then the retiring president of the farmers bank of Lancaster

01:37 - Jenkins was a good friend of Buchanan's

01:39 - it was built for him

01:41 - they started building it in January of 1828

01:44 - they finished it in October

01:46 - of 1828 when Jenkins moved in

01:49 - although

01:50 - according to Buchanan

01:52 - the plaster walls were still wet

01:55 - when Jenkins

01:56 - decided to occupy the house he moved in with his very large family

02:01 - that he and his wife made even bigger

02:05 - Up to a total of twelve or thirteen children

02:08 - while the house was a

02:10 - what

02:11 - a lot of architectural historians referred to as a

02:14 - very much a

02:16 - A federalist style house it it actually has

02:19 - some federalist features.

02:22 - Symmetry

02:23 - the

02:24 - easiest way to describe it as if you took a

02:27 - if you took a knife and cut the house down the middle

02:30 - and

02:31 - flopped open both

02:32 - halves

02:33 - they would be identical

02:35 - this was really what was known as a country home

02:37 - James Buchanan bought the farm

02:39 - in 1848

02:40 - he bought it from

02:42 - the third owner a Philadelphia lawyer

02:44 - named William Morris Meredith James Buchanan was

02:48 - born

02:49 - believe it or not in a log cabin.

02:53 - In a little town called Cove Gap, PA his father who was an Irish immigrant.

02:59 - Also.

03:00 - Known as James Buchanan.

03:03 - I

03:04 - had.

03:05 - Purchased this business as a young man.

03:08 - Soon after he

03:10 - married his wife

03:11 - Elizabeth spear

03:13 - James Buchanan grew up.

03:16 - There for just a couple of years

03:19 - he was about three years old when his father

03:21 - bought a farm just outside of mercersburg Pennsylvania

03:25 - and.

03:26 - He helped on the farm

03:28 - of for most of his childhood

03:31 - but his father also built a two story brick house in the little village of mercersburg

03:38 - and moved his family there when

03:41 - young James was five years old

03:43 - so James really.

03:45 - Kind of grew up in the countryside

03:47 - he had a real strong interest in law is education was kind of

03:52 - typical for a rural kid.

03:55 - His mother was his first

03:57 - educator.

03:59 - She instilled a love poetry

04:01 - in young James and then he

04:03 - went off

04:05 - and why as a have

04:06 - enrolled by his parents at a local academy for young boys

04:10 - stone academy

04:11 - from there

04:13 - when he was about sixteen years old.

04:15 - They enrolled him in college

04:17 - at Dickinson college

04:19 - and he was smart enough that.

04:22 - The college enrolled him in his second year

04:26 - of college which would have been then a junior year

04:29 - there was no such thing as a sophomore year at Dickinson back in those days

04:33 - and he graduated in 1809 with the class of 1809

04:38 - Had the best honors

04:40 - Being

04:41 - bestowed upon him by his fellow students but.

04:44 - James had gotten in a little trouble when he was in his first year college and

04:49 - the faculty didn't feel that he was

04:51 - worthy

04:52 - of those honors so Buchanan kind of left Dickinson even though he

04:56 - did graduate he left it with a

04:58 - bad taste in his mouth for the school.

05:00 - His dad had seen a

05:05 - a lawyer from Lancaster.

05:08 - Argue several cases

05:10 - was at cumberland county courthouse and he was very impressed with him his name was

05:14 - James Hopkins

05:16 - and he approached Mr Hopkins and

05:18 - talked to them about serving as a preceptor for his son.

05:22 - Hopkins agreed and.

05:24 - That fall

05:26 - James Buchanan arrived in the big city of Lancaster

05:29 - to

05:30 - start

05:31 - reading law

05:32 - which was how you became a lawyer

05:34 - back in those days it was kind of like an apprenticeship

05:38 - and he

05:40 - he read law for three years

05:41 - have passed the bar at the age of twenty one.

05:45 - So the year 1814 was really important in James's life.

05:50 - He was

05:53 - In the center of Lancaster.

05:55 - Nearby

05:56 - the place where he was

05:59 - using as an office.

06:02 - And everyone was out in the streets.

06:05 - Talking about the

06:06 - the attack

06:07 - on

06:08 - Baltimore

06:09 - by the

06:10 - the British.

06:11 - The war of 1812 was

06:13 - was well underway

06:15 - and

06:16 - James Buchanan.

06:18 - Was critical

06:20 - he was a member of.

06:21 - The same political party that his dad was a party

06:24 - member of

06:25 - the federalist party which were the

06:27 - a real conservative well heeled.

06:31 - Political

06:32 - party of the time

06:34 - and

06:35 - he was really critical of how.

06:40 - President Madison and congress

06:42 - handled.

06:44 - The

06:44 - declaration of war.

06:47 - And

06:48 - but he

06:49 - also said

06:50 - that if our nation was under attack by a foreign enemy

06:54 - that

06:55 - we should all

06:56 - go to.

06:58 - Go to the aid

06:59 - of the areas that were under attack

07:02 - so he joined the militia.

07:05 - Never really saw whole lot of combat time.

07:08 - By the time they got to

07:10 - to Baltimore

07:11 - the fighting was over

07:14 - but when he came home his fellow members

07:17 - of the federalist party were really impressed

07:21 - with the fact that he put his actions.

07:24 - Put into action his words

07:26 - of advice to his fellow man.

07:29 - So they

07:30 - nominated him to run for office in the state legislature.

07:35 - He was elected

07:36 - and he served for

07:38 - two consecutive terms they were one year terms in the Pennsylvania house.

07:46 - then he left politics behind after the second year

07:49 - he really wanted to focus on his on his law career

07:53 - but by eighteen twenty.

07:56 - Things were changing for James he was.

08:00 - Doing well as a young lawyer got his big break.

08:04 - Around the year eighteen sixteen when he defended

08:07 - a

08:07 - state supreme court judge

08:10 - on impeachment.

08:12 - Proceedings.

08:13 - Not only one year but three years in a row

08:17 - Very politically motivated

08:19 - attempts to

08:20 - unseat this.

08:22 - This

08:23 - lawyer

08:23 - he had went he went from about

08:26 - earning about a thousand dollars a year to

08:28 - earning close to nine thousand dollars a year.

08:32 - He started using that money to invest in land and businesses

08:36 - and was doing quite well.

08:39 - But he had an event that occurred in his life

08:41 - where the young woman that he was engaged to

08:44 - Anne Coleman

08:45 - had suddenly died

08:47 - and this occurred after she broke off the engagement with the two of them.

08:52 - He was.

08:53 - Devastated

08:55 - and.

08:58 - His friends his close friends told him that the Coleman family

09:03 - would never.

09:06 - Never.

09:08 - Make him.

09:10 - Feel like

09:11 - he was a part of their family so.

09:14 - They

09:14 - sort of came to his rescue and convinced him

09:17 - that

09:18 - you know you're

09:19 - you're very good at politics perhaps you should run for

09:22 - congress

09:23 - and this is where James Buchanan goes into the federal

09:26 - theatre of politics

09:30 - He's elected

09:31 - to the u s house of representatives

09:33 - and he would serve there for a decade.

09:37 - Five consecutive terms.

09:39 - Buchanan

09:41 - also

09:42 - changes

09:43 - political parties during this decade.

09:45 - The federalist party on the national stage

09:49 - really becomes marginalize

09:51 - Buchanan is really kind of a man without a party for awhile

09:55 - but he coalesces and really.

09:59 - Resonates with this new political party started by Andrew Jackson.

10:05 - So the Jackson democracy

10:07 - becomes his new party

10:09 - But he is hopeful

10:10 - that Jackson's going to give him.

10:13 - A plum job

10:14 - in his second administration

10:16 - unfortunately for him

10:19 - Jackson really didn't trust Buchanan

10:22 - and he wanted to eliminate Buchanan from politics so

10:25 - he sends them off to represent us as the U.S. minister

10:29 - to Russia

10:31 - and he gives them what was essentially an impossible task.

10:36 - He wants him to come up with

10:38 - a commercial treaty with czar Nicholas

10:41 - no other U.S.

10:42 - minister had been able to do this

10:45 - Buchanan achieves it in

10:46 - two years

10:48 - and

10:49 - he comes back a hero

10:51 - and

10:52 - the Pennsylvania state legislature.

10:55 - Votes him in

10:56 - to fulfill an unexpired term.

10:59 - As our U.S. senator so Jackson's plan backfires.

11:04 - Now he's in the U.S. senate

11:06 - and he would serve two consecutive terms

11:09 - as a U.S. senator for us

11:11 - and in

11:14 - 1845

11:17 - James k polk becomes the president of the united states.

11:20 - Polk really liked Buchanan

11:23 - of for his skills and he appoints him

11:27 - as his secretary of state.

11:29 - So

11:30 - Buchanan is secretary of state for Polk for four years.

11:34 - He prosecutes the

11:36 - Mexican American war

11:38 - he.

11:39 - Realigns the southwestern

11:42 - and the north western border

11:44 - of the united states as secretary of state.

11:48 - Eighteen forty nine

11:50 - to eighteen fifty six

11:53 - is a time when Buchanan is really kind of

11:57 - reconnecting with his community here in Lancaster

12:00 - he's really not practicing law whole lot

12:02 - anymore he

12:04 - doesn't really need to

12:05 - he's a by the time he was thirty he had

12:08 - amassed a net worth of about three hundred thousand dollars

12:12 - little over eight million

12:13 - in our

12:14 - money today.

12:15 - Buchanan's pretty comfortable

12:18 - and

12:19 - he figures

12:21 - you know he'll try his hand at the U.S. Presidency again

12:24 - he goes to the democrats

12:27 - and throws his hat in the ring in eighteen fifty two.

12:31 - He loses that bid

12:33 - Franklin Pierce becomes the president

12:35 - Pierce

12:36 - like Jackson

12:37 - doesn't trust Buchanan

12:39 - he appoints him to be the U.S. minister to great britain

12:43 - to get him out of the country.

12:46 - Which is actually a good thing for Buchanan.

12:49 - Because during his three years in great britain.

12:53 - Bleeding Kansas occurs under

12:55 - President Pierce.

12:57 - Buchanan comes back in 1856

13:01 - and he becomes the nominee for the Democratic party to hold onto the white house.

13:06 - Three times

13:07 - a charm.

13:09 - I'm not real sure.

13:11 - If that's the case for James Buchanan.

13:14 - He does win the presidency

13:16 - he goes up against a former U.S. president Millard Fillmore

13:19 - who is representing the American party

13:22 - who were then known as the know nothings.

13:24 - Because they were so secretive

13:27 - and

13:27 - and he also goes up

13:29 - against the very first.

13:31 - Republican party member

13:33 - running for president.

13:34 - Mr Freemont

13:37 - but.

13:38 - Buchanan.

13:40 - Starts off

13:42 - where he.

13:44 - As president elect even before he takes the oath of office.

13:49 - Begins to.

13:51 - Try to play a role in.

13:54 - Not influencing but.

13:57 - Certainly.

13:58 - Making sure that the outcome of the vote in the.

14:02 - United states supreme court

14:05 - on a

14:05 - court case called the Dred Scott case

14:08 - goes the way that

14:09 - chief justice Taney wants it to go.

14:12 - Taney was

14:13 - assured that out of all of the supreme court justices

14:18 - he had a majority

14:20 - of them of voting in his favor

14:24 - but

14:25 - he really wanted to have at least one

14:28 - supreme court justice from the north

14:31 - to be voting in

14:32 - in his

14:34 - favor as well.

14:36 - So Buchanan

14:37 - at the request of

14:40 - Justice Catron from Tennessee

14:42 - approaches Pennsylvania Justice Greer

14:45 - and convinces him

14:47 - to vote

14:48 - in favor of Chief Justice Taney's

14:51 - Decision

14:52 - that decision is handed down literally less than a week after Buchanan.

14:57 - Delivers his inaugural speech in Washington

15:00 - and in his speech he mentions

15:03 - that there's going to be a very important case mentioned or released

15:08 - fairly soon

15:09 - that we'll all cheerfully adhere to

15:12 - and the dred Scott decision was probably one of the most horrific decisions

15:17 - in the nation's history

15:21 - The worst part of it

15:23 - was that

15:24 - Taney

15:26 - States that.

15:28 - Not only

15:29 - can Dred Scott not.

15:32 - Sue for his.

15:34 - Freedom.

15:37 - Because he's

15:38 - not a citizen.

15:40 - He also says that all blacks will never be citizens of the united states

15:44 - he also.

15:48 - Describes that.

15:51 - The

15:51 - Missouri compromise that had kept the peace between the north and the south

15:55 - over this.

15:57 - Struggle for power in the

15:59 - in the U.S. house

16:02 - and in the senate.

16:04 - That

16:04 - they have

16:05 - no say that that is a defunct.

16:09 - law

16:11 - and it's it's unconstitutional

16:13 - so that is wiped out

16:15 - and the fugitive slave.

16:18 - Laws that were on the books

16:21 - he makes them even worse much more strict

16:24 - so it's a horrific decision by

16:27 - by Taney

16:28 - and the supreme court

16:29 - and Buchanan has a hand in it

16:31 - and Buchanan ends up leaving the white house

16:34 - as one of the most vilified politicians

16:38 - both in the north

16:39 - the south

16:40 - and the west

16:42 - so he's

16:44 - he comes home.

16:47 - To wheatland

16:48 - kind of a.

16:50 - A really defeated.

16:52 - Individual

16:53 - I'll describe what a reporter described back in 1856

16:58 - during the campaign and he came in the front door

17:01 - and.

17:03 - He walks in and he says that the the hall is

17:07 - a beautiful hallway with all that it needs

17:10 - well decorated

17:12 - by the lady of the house and

17:14 - he's talking about mr Buchanan's niece Harriet Lane

17:17 - and he looks to his right.

17:21 - As he comes down the hallway

17:23 - and

17:24 - he's looking into the parlor

17:27 - and he says

17:28 - that this is.

17:30 - By far the most beautiful room in the house

17:33 - it's where mr Buchanan welcomes.

17:35 - The ladies and their gallants and it was well decorated by.

17:41 - The lady of the house

17:43 - and he doesn't really go any further than that

17:45 - because he mentions that an image

17:48 - accompanies his description

17:50 - in his newspaper article

17:52 - and

17:53 - we have

17:54 - an

17:54 - enlarged image

17:55 - of that room.

17:58 - From Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper.

18:02 - He then looks to his left

18:04 - and he says clearly this is a

18:07 - a much more

18:09 - masculine room

18:10 - there are desks

18:12 - in this room with bookcases filled with legal lore

18:16 - Comfortable furniture to sit on.

18:20 - But the desks are covered with books.

18:24 - Newspapers and the stubs of smoked cigars

18:27 - clearly Mr Buchanan's addicted to the weed

18:31 - And says that this was

18:32 - clearly mr Buchanan's

18:34 - inner sanctum his library.

18:37 - And he describes what we have surrounding us today.

18:42 - Three bookcases

18:44 - two flanking the fireplace

18:46 - one large barristers bookcase

18:49 - near the door

18:50 - mr Buchanan's favorite rocking chair

18:54 - near the stove

18:55 - and

18:56 - a library desk in the center

18:58 - of the room.

19:00 - Sitting upon a wool carpet

19:02 - with

19:03 - a black background and large

19:06 - Rose colored flowers.

19:08 - So we've tried our best to recreate that scene for everybody

19:13 - and we're fortunate to have a lot of his original furniture in here

19:16 - the library desk was a gift

19:18 - given to mr Buchanan by his niece Harriet Lane.

19:22 - When he won the presidency.

19:25 - He then proceeds to walk down the hallway

19:28 - to what we know as the the south hall which connects the east wing where we're sitting.

19:35 - In the library

19:36 - to the west wing where the dining room was located

19:39 - he describes seeing a small dining table

19:42 - the sitting room.

19:44 - As the news http paper described

19:46 - it

19:46 - definitely had a different vibe to it.

19:50 - you know it was filled with at least a couple of desks.

19:54 - Took up a lot of room

19:55 - today we have a

19:57 - the second

19:58 - piano

19:59 - that mr Buchanan owned

20:00 - he bought it in eighteen sixty five arrived here sometime

20:05 - around the Christmas holidays

20:07 - it's a concert piano

20:08 - so it was much larger than the

20:10 - the smaller

20:11 - parlor piano that he had before.

20:14 - Apparently had promised Harriet Lane that he would.

20:17 - Always buy and provide her and her cousins who played piano as well

20:22 - with a concert piano

20:24 - and he enjoyed the music he didn't play himself

20:27 - and

20:28 - but it's a chickering piano about nine feet long

20:30 - so you can imagine it takes up a lot of room.

20:34 - Unfortunately it can't be played any more the soundboard is pretty well shot

20:39 - but he bought it for four hundred dollars which was

20:42 - pretty expensive back then

20:45 - The room has a

20:46 - have

20:47 - a very unique

20:48 - partners desk in it.

20:50 - It's made from

20:52 - teakwood

20:53 - all hand-carved and it came from Calcutta India.

20:57 - Back when Buchanan was.

20:59 - The U.S. minister to Russia under president Jackson.

21:03 - He.

21:04 - Finished

21:05 - his mission.

21:07 - Which was supposed to take three years.

21:10 - He finished it in two years

21:12 - and he made a request of the secretary of state Marcy

21:16 - and the president.

21:18 - If he could

21:19 - since he was done with his mission

21:21 - could he take his last

21:23 - third year.

21:24 - At his own expense

21:26 - as a vacation

21:28 - and he was granted that

21:30 - so he traveled the world

21:31 - while he had the opportunity

21:33 - and apparently met

21:34 - some people that he befriended in

21:37 - Calcutta India

21:38 - and in 1856 when

21:40 - he

21:42 - was elected the fifteenth president united states.

21:45 - All of our news just like today he goes out

21:48 - to other parts of the world right.

21:51 - Little slower back then

21:53 - but

21:54 - this gentleman

21:55 - that knew him.

21:56 - Remembered him and

21:58 - sent him this as a personal gift.

22:01 - Buchanan brought that desk to the white house and used it all four years

22:06 - and brought it home

22:07 - and Buck Henry took that as part of his inheritance that

22:10 - came back to our collection in 2013

22:13 - when

22:14 - mrs Henry.

22:16 - The third.

22:18 - Passed away

22:19 - and

22:20 - their children

22:21 - donated it to our collection.

22:23 - In the public parlor we have a a gilded framed portrait of James Buchanan painted.

22:31 - At the time that he would have been the Democratic nominee

22:34 - the original painting i should say was painted the at that time

22:37 - the painting that

22:38 - you'll see today.

22:40 - Hanging in the house was painted

22:42 - soon after the November election

22:45 - but by the same artist so it's a copy of the original

22:48 - we own both of them

22:50 - and

22:51 - the one that is

22:52 - the original portrait

22:54 - was painted by a man named William mcmaster from new York city

22:57 - the the portrait of.

23:00 - James

23:00 - Buchanan that's hanging now was copied by mcmaster so that

23:04 - the empire club of new York city

23:07 - could have a portrait of the

23:09 - the president elect.

23:12 - And they wanted to hang it in their rotunda.

23:16 - But.

23:17 - They initially asked mcmaster we want

23:20 - the portrait that you've painted

23:21 - of Buchanan back in July of 1856

23:25 - and he said oh i'm sorry.

23:27 - I know

23:28 - who you are and that you're powerful men but.

23:31 - I promised president elect Buchanan that i

23:35 - i would never sell it or give it away

23:38 - and they said well

23:39 - this is what we intend to do with it

23:41 - and he said i'm sorry i

23:44 - am happy to paint another portrait for you

23:46 - and they said fine we will pay you one thousand dollars

23:50 - and he did

23:51 - it's identical portrait.

23:54 - Just a slightly different frame and

23:57 - it hung in the rotunda of the nation's capital.

24:01 - Throughout most of the four years

24:03 - that he was president

24:05 - then it disappeared.

24:07 - And

24:08 - it disappeared.

24:13 - From from my knowledge from my knowledge base.

24:18 - It reappeared

24:19 - in a public auction in Cincinnati Ohio

24:23 - in the year 2006

24:27 - and the auctioneer called me that's the only reason i knew it.

24:31 - appeared

24:32 - Because we had just put out a new tourism card

24:38 - to promote the museum and we were using that portrait

24:41 - because we own the original.

24:44 - And.

24:46 - He said.

24:47 - How did you get.

24:49 - The image of the portrait that we have on auction it's been.

24:54 - You know in a private collection

24:56 - and i said well

24:57 - we've got the original portrait know this is the

24:59 - original portrait i said no I'll tell you the story

25:02 - and i explained to them what

25:04 - what they had

25:05 - which

25:06 - probably helped it sell better i think it sold for over 60 thousand dollars that day.

25:11 - At their auction house

25:13 - and then it disappeared again

25:15 - into private hands you know

25:16 - you know auctioneers don't tell you who owns these things.

25:21 - But it reappeared in Philadelphia.

25:24 - Probably about

25:27 - I guess

25:29 - probably going on about seven or eight years ago.

25:32 - And one of our

25:34 - local.

25:36 - Foundations that.

25:38 - Are very enamored with

25:39 - Lancaster history.

25:42 - The owner of the or the president of the

25:45 - foundation of

25:46 - approached our ceo who approached me

25:48 - and tell me about this portrait i thought that we had

25:51 - the only portrait of Buchanan that looked like this

25:54 - and i told them the story

25:55 - and he said well this can't leave

25:57 - Pennsylvania.

25:59 - So he knew the auctioneer and he went and bought it

26:01 - before it hit the auction block

26:03 - and donated to our collection.

26:06 - So we have the original.

26:08 - Which

26:10 - We ended up with

26:12 - through

26:13 - a great granddaughter

26:15 - of

26:15 - Edward Buchanan the reverend Edward Buchanan

26:18 - the president's youngest sibling

26:20 - the

26:20 - eleventh child of of the family

26:24 - i and.

26:26 - That was donated to our

26:28 - to our collection

26:30 - by that great granddaughter.

26:32 - Cause Edward.

26:35 - When

26:36 - mcmaster died

26:37 - and some time in the late nineteenth century before Edward passed himself.

26:43 - Approached the widow.

26:44 - You know

26:45 - she didn't have a

26:46 - a means of

26:47 - earning a living

26:49 - so she was selling her husband's

26:51 - portraits that he had painted

26:53 - over so many decades and

26:56 - Edward wanted to get the portrait of his brother.

26:58 - So we were very fortunate to

27:01 - end up with both portraits in our collection.

27:05 - We know that Buchanan was

27:07 - the older that he got the more religious he got

27:10 - He was raised as a

27:12 - presbyterian.

27:15 - He.

27:16 - Never joined with the church.

27:19 - Until after he left

27:21 - politics completely

27:23 - the Bible that's up there Buchanan bought in eighteen fifty six.

27:27 - It was likely

27:29 - the Bible that he brought with him

27:31 - to.

27:32 - Take his oath of office upon

27:34 - and

27:35 - we don't know that for certain but

27:37 - it's likely.

27:39 - He signed it like he signed every book that he owned

27:42 - and dated it

27:43 - the bed that's up there.

27:46 - Also came from one of

27:49 - buck Henry's.

27:51 - sons and grandsons

27:53 - Buchanan used that bed all

27:55 - twenty years

27:56 - that he owned wheatland.

27:59 - And that would be the bed that he would die in.

28:01 - At eight thirty in the morning on June first surrounded by his family

28:05 - his niece.

28:06 - Henrietta

28:07 - Buchanan

28:08 - had come to visit with him.

28:11 - In the Christmas of eighteen sixty seven and stayed.

28:16 - Throughout the rest of the year she thought she was going to be able to go home

28:20 - by late spring but his health.

28:23 - Took a nosedive and she stayed with her uncle

28:26 - and sent letters to all the family members keeping them apprised

28:31 - and eventually everyone came around

28:35 - to wheatland and were with him when when he passed.

28:39 - And she was holding his hand

28:41 - and when he woke he kept coming in and out

28:44 - of consciousness and when he woke up a

28:46 - couple of minutes before

28:48 - eight thirty.

28:50 - He could barely whisper

28:52 - but she heard him say

28:53 - oh god.

28:55 - Thou wilt

28:57 - and that was it.

28:58 - Was the last he said.