The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-12-02
DE ATH OF A LOVED OLD TENAS
LADY



The Victoria Advo,a,e announcea the
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oe"In' III VI" 'o"l' on 'ne I'm November
1880, of Mrs Snsac Linn Moody aged sixty
seven. In her death a bright star fell from
tho ola co,onisl Tsxy, Armamor, If for,o,o
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rennen'eh'' ioVenhess ana Pa'r'o''Sm' AS
Miss Susan Linn she arrived from her native
New York homo in the Mexican town of
,1;.ti, :, ,,o ,,,;,,,au % 1000 ., ert,,,..,,
''0''' az III 'A0 " ''''0' " -G'' my Je"i
ago. She WAS ten girl OF seventeen, re-
mafks6le for those g,aces which make
woman Int httle lower than the onoels.
III. whole Linn family having been nrscsd od
bn ,ba SONS ware there-thn fstber motber
Jobn,J the elder auj only SURVIVING .or
now aoed over eight CbsTlps Henry "a
nord Snsar and An .donted dsnobt.r SAB
Grsce Fnlton. afterw.r1. Mrs Jones Karr
whose msmorv ia desr IN thsn1suds Tha
Iinns are IrisR. tnougb. onlv tha~eh;laran
aycsnting .Iohn / Were horn q, lpnnrh'
|a.aensia Nav YORK and resrad h the city of
NV Yprk.
I'm 1893 the sons sought adventure IA Nav
Orleans and the far west Int ,oon drifted
| into Texas and the Mexican MAZDA and
mola Victsr,a the cSnitsl of ma i,eo,,,s
colony their heaIouarters and sent far tina; :
PARENTS ami skaters who arrived as ,t.,sd
Henry and Charlie, died Of cholsra before the
r60oln,ion of 1835. ma did Ina mother All,
tho family scoujred the Snanisb Iangnaoo and
cana 10 exercise powerful inanSnce ov.r
tbosa border MEXICAN nennlo. Wben tho
var came Iohn / Linn WINS a sturdy Int
conservative pstriot and renresenteI B;s
noonle in ali the revolutionary assembiies a.
also several times in tho Texas congros,' ~
| his Youngest son. Edward ID linn has tv,ico
done md will do again in the next leoisla-
ture, Edward was asuryeyor and srcbitect
and long SPANISH translator in tho land Of
6ce He died, honored and loves. since tho
war. ms Mrs. Kerr died ia 1869
Susan Linn, the deceased, who married
lanes A. Moody in 1871. was one of a proun
of vour+ ladies in southwest TeYas who
shed lpstre on the country in the dark reyo-
lntionarv days, from 1895 to her marriage IN
lS41. She and her sister-in-law, Mrs, JOIN
]. Linn (nee Miss Daniels. of New Orleans.
then younu brids) won the love of over
volunteer who passed thrguoh Victoria.
When the New Orleans crews arrived cold
wet and hungry. an rnuts for the beseicel
most of San Antonio. they lsbored through y
whola night cooking FOR them rntions for a
wiIaerneSs march Of 150 miles. When santa
Annals army came over the whole neonlr
ao5 east, ,Tohn !. LYNN, at the last moment
was compelled TO flee and leave his young
wife and sister among his Mexican friends al
De Ieon,s rancho. narrowly escapine oaptiv.
itv himself Atthat rancho. on the daYso,
Syn .Mcinto. with none Int Mexicons.S11 ~
cnt his first child was born and ma.
mother tonderly cared for. "A Su AZ
md Meyisan women. WI ~
sclnowlsdoed by all who
soil. ara worthy Of the all
Tbs soul Of that eirl.obl| y
oh ristened Honeria, wi, <I11
ber Ami susan and |Sl1S1
Edmo Kerr. II took <{lS'
some wears ,ince. II ia )l E. \!
@ust iSl0 Il devoiI q aof' || ,yrjSero
$1,000 20 ~, IN e IA II - acros,
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