Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-07-24
The Death Of Miss Fanny ParneIl.

As already announced by telegraph
Miss Fanny ParneN, sister OF Charles
Stewart Parnell, died suddenly Thursday
afternoon of paralysis Of the heart st the
family mansion, in BordentOwn, n. J. Miss
PsrneU wss subject to attacks from the
heart. and would sOmetim IS be in an appar-
ent trance She wss in her usual health up
to Thursday morning. Miss Parnell was
horn in AvOudsle, County Wicklow, Ireland,
9S wears ago. She was the third daughter
Of John Henry Parnel, grandson OF Sir John
PsrneIl. the last Chancellor Of the Irish
Fxcbeouer, and Della Tudor Stewart dsugh-
ter of Charles Stewart, familiarly known as
'OId IrODsides," and who was made an
Admiral. retiring from the service with that
lincoln. On her mothers side she was
ted 70 the Tud0rs OF Boston,
and from her father she inherited the blood
Of the Cougletons and HOwards OF England.
At an early age Miss Parnell developed an
extrsordinary taste for study. While but a
child she IS said 10 have acquired an inti
mate knowledge of mathematics, mastered
music and learned drawing and painting IN
OH aud water c0lOrs. Later on she studied
obemfstrv snd astronomy, aud before she
had Quilted her teens it is said she had at
tanned the remarkable accomplishment OF
speazfug aud writing fue1tlv in all the
principal European languages besides Latin
and Greek. In latter years she contributed
several spirited poems TO magazines and
periodicals on bOtn sides OF the Atlantic.
Having Travelled extensively In Europe,
always moving in q refined atmosphere,
she had acquired a large store OF in-
formation which would be more highly
Drfzed bv philosophers and poets than by
She genfler sex. Her interest in Irish
affairs dates back of 1867, when the Fenlan
or aufzatiou sOrely- troubled the govern
mont. she used to tell Of an amusing incl
dent which occurred about that time. The
PsfneH physician was suspected by the
DOIice OF being an active Fenian, and his
movements were closely watched. lie was
in constant attendance on one OF the family
who wss stricken down with cholera, hut
the police were not aware OF this. The
drawn blinds in the windows OF the sick
room. and the constant visits OF DR..
O'Resgan left no doubt In the mind Of
1vnx-eved detective that escaped Fenians
were concealed in the Parnell mansion. A
descent on the house was Immediately or
iered, but when the advance guards had
reached the darkened room and learned that
r contained s young lady suffering rom
Asiatie cholera, they peat Nasty
and by 10 mears digDified retreat. IL is
said that her Influence more than anything
else induced her eldest brother, John How
ard Parnell, who, up to that time, hsd al
ways been ranked with the Conservatives,
to contest, on the Home Rule platform, the
county of Wicklow with the son OF Lord
Fltzwilliam for parliamentary honors- Ihe
deep interest she had taken in the course
since pursued by her bro her Charles is snf-
fciently shown by the extent OF her own
work IN organizing branches Of the Ladies'
Land League IN this county. Besides her
mother, Miss Parnell leaves three brothers
and four sisters. or the latter, three are
married-one to Mr.. James Thomson. son
OF Mrs Livingstone Thomson, of New York;
one to Mnnro Dickinson, nephew of Sir
Drury Dickinson, of Dublin, and the other
tn Lieut.. Claude FACET, of the English
Navy. Her only unmarried sister Is Anna,
who is now In Ireland.