The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-28
A Sad and Sudden Death.

! dead. She had gone down with th'
children to enjoy the picnic. We were
at the train in the morning when the
party left, and Mrs. Mower was look
ing remarkably well, and was unusu
ally bright and lively. The thought
| never entered our mind that so sool
the summons would come, but it is q
happy and consoling thought that she
was prepared to meet it.
The particulars of the death are given
in the following from the A. 4. Pres
byterian by her pastor:
DR.. GR1ER: Dear Bro.-I write q
hasty line to inform you and the many
friends of Mrs. Cynthia Mower among
the readers of the Presbyterian of her
death. 1t occurred last Saturday, the
23d inst, at Little Mountain, station
eight miles below Prosperity on the
Columbia and Newberry road. We
were taking the BUSY Bees" the mis-
sionary society of the children of our
church, to spend the day and have a
picnic on Little Mountain. It was ne
cessary for some of their older friends
10 accompany them. Mrs. Mower was
always active in such things, and on
the invitation of number of the chill
dren and of Mr.. Carlisle who had charge
of them, she was with US. We were
detained at the station only little
while in arranging TO send the baskets
in wagon. All of US then started to
walk to the mountain, about half
mile distant. Minnie Todd and Mrs.
C. Mower were walking with Mr.. John
Latham, q merchant at that place.
Mrs. George Mower and I were walk
ing short distance in rear Of them.
The Busy Bees and their guests were a
considerable distance ahead of US. We
had walked some three or four hum
dred yards, and Mrs. Mower was talk
ing busily to Mr.. Latham about her
fondness for children and her temper
ance work among them. Suddenly she
caught his arm, exclaiming, ooh! Mr..
Latham" as ifin great pain. He called
to me, and we let her down gently to
the ground and she was dead. Mr. and
Mrs. Carlisle, and Miss Mamie Hol-
brook, and Mr.. Jones Joined US at once,
but all efforts to revive her were una
vailing. Mr.. George Mower was in
Charleston on professional business,
but on being notified came directly
home.
On yesterday at 2.3C p. M, we held
the funeral services in our church with
weeping assembly Twelve children
from her Band of Hope at the cotton
mill, and twelve from the Bandi in town,
acted with the pail bearers. We then
took the body to Prosperity to lay by
the side of her beloved husband Duane
Mower. In the quiet and stiffness OF
the close of the day of rest we commit
ted her to the care of the Lord of the
Sabbath till the morning Of the resur-
rection. E. P. MCCLINTOCK.
Newberry, May 25th, 1891.
Mrs. Cynthia Mower was born in the
State Of Maine on the 22nd Decemb Der,
1929, and was therefore in her 62nd
year. In 1852 she was married to Mr..
Duane Mower. In 1854 they decided
to come South, aud settled at Pros
perity. They became thoroughly iden-
titled with the South They engaged
successful. In February, 1885,, Mr..
Mower decided to move to NeWberry,
and here, until his death in 1872, con-
tinued the mercantile business.
After his death the business was con-
ducted by Mrs. Mower with a degree
of success almost unprecedented in this
part of the State. Her business meth
ods were models, and her stores were
always the personifcations of neatness.
Although her son, the Hon. Geo. S.
Mower, was one Of the firm, yet the
entire control and direction Of the busi-
ness of the stores was conducted by her.
There is one thing in connection
with her management that's worthy of
mention, and that is, that although the
firm did large credit business it was
rarely ever engaged in lawsuits and
litigations with its customers, which
we consider a decided credit to the
business skill and management.
And although in the midst, and the
head, of this large business, Mrs. Mower
found time to devote to other things.
She took lively interest in the affairs
Of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian
church, of which she was a devoted
member, and contributed literally of
her means to its support and the chari-
ties of the church.
The temperance cause was also dear
to her heart, and as president of the
New berry w. G. T. .. she was en-
active worker. She organized Bands
of Hope among the children, and rarely
missed one of the meetings which were
always held on Tuesday afternoon in
the Thompson street church. Her
annual Christmas treats for the chill
dren had become one OF the institutions
O; Newberry and will be greatly missed.
She began this work in Newberry
about seven yaars.
A gentleman remarked to the editor
of The Herald and News not a great
while ago, as we were sitting together
on the steps of our Office watching the
happy throng of boys and girls return
ing from Temperance" as they called
it, that if Mrs. Mower lived ten years
longer Newberry would be prohibi-
ton town. His idea was that her plan
of educating the children in temperance
was the only way to bring about ef-
fective prohibition, and we believe he
was right.
Mrs. Mower was a woman Of strong
mind, of decided convictions and out
spoken in maintaining them, but
withal kind and gentle and loving in
her disposition. Her death is loss to
the community, and she will be missed
by many.
Her only son, Hon. Geo. S. Mower,
a prominent lawyer of this bar, was
absent in Charleston attending the
trial in the CoosaW case as associate
counsel for the State when he received
the sad intelligence. He came on spe-
cial train to Columbia Immediately,
and reached Newberry on the 7:90 train
on the G.. n. & L. road Saturday after
neon. It is a sore bereavement to him.
The funeral services were largely at
tended on Sunday afternoon, both at
the church here and at Prosperity.
The following gentlemen acted as
pail bearers: R. l.. Mclaughlin, NJ. A.
Carlisle, J. G. Wilson, J. n. Martin, E.
G. Jones. J. w. Cha pman, Thos. E.
Epting, R. II. Wright, w. w. Hodges
and J. w. Chappell.
Mr.. Geo. S. Mower will continue the
business, for the present at least, under
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