The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-11-21
Miss Mary Yeargin Drowned.

Our community was in~eXpressibly
saddened yesterday morning at the re-
ceipt Of the intelligence of the death
of Miss Mary L.. Yeargin at Ithaca,
New York, Saturday afternoon.
AT an early hour yesterday her ia
Their, Mr.. II. H. Yeargin, received the
following kilograms, all being deliver
ed together, bearing the same date
and signed ELLA X. Hooker:
"ITHACA, N. V, Nov. 20, '03.-Mary
Yeargin went out boating with an in
%structor yesterday. Boat was found
grounded to-day, no trace of occupants.
deepest sympathies for all. No
tidings. Full details in letter."
"Mary has met with accident. Will
telegraph you to-day. Will write fully.
Be patient"
"Bodies not found. Parties search
ing. University has offered reward.
My judgment is wait"
Yesterdays daily papers contain the
following United Press dispatch:
"ITHACA, N. Y, Nov. ID. S. Mer-
riam, an instructor in Cornell Univer-
sity, and Miss NIL. Yeargin, a student,
went out rowing on Cayuga Lake yes
terday afternoon and to-day their boat
was found overturned in the lake.
INOUlllnS udS Dccfl SCCH VI VI
them up to I o'clock tonight and they
were evidently drowned by the over
turning of the boat. They hired a boat
yesterday evening at 3 o'clock, while
there was a very strong wind blowing
on the lake. The boatman advised
them to keep along the west shore of
the lake as it would be dangerous
along the east shore. This they did
not do and 1t evidently cost them their
lives.
"Late this evening q hunter brought
to the city an Overcoat which had the
mark of a Baltimore firm in it. 1t
was identified as the instructors over
coat by q gentleman h boards at the
same house with him. An effort will
be made to recover the bodies by the
Use of q cannon.
1.-THE young lady has been a student
at Cornell for two years. Her home is
in Laurens county, S. c. Mr.. Merriam
was a graduate OF Vanderbilt Univer-
sity. He took a post graduate course
at the John Hopkins University and
this was his first year at Cornell, he
being al instructor in the political
economy department. His parents re-
side in Chattanooga, Tenn, where his
father is a large Wholesale grocer, re-
ported to be very wealthy. The young
man was ~passiOnately fond of water,
was On the lake nearly every day and
it was his usual custom to take some
young lady with him. The parents of
both the young people have been wired
to the effect that they were undoubt-
eddy drowned.
Miss Yeargin was formerly q stu
dent in the Columbia Female College,
Columbia, S. c., where she graduatd
with high honors and afterwards
taught in the same institution"
1t is impossible to tell with what sor-
row our people heard this most deplo-
rable news. For u time the lingering
hope was INDUCED that possibly a later
report would come saying that the
young lady was injured but not dead,
but this was soon given up. The deep
est sympathy was expressed by every
Que for the stricken parents and fam
lily.
Miss Mary l.. Yeargin was born
about twenty-five years ago. Early
in life she began to develop exception
al traits of intellect and character.
Her girlhood was devoted to earnest
and self-sacriicing industry and dill
gent efforts for self-improvement. She
spent several years at the Columbia
Female College where she graduated
with marked distinction and for u
while afterwards was u teacher in the
institution. Subsequently she was u
teacher In the Leesville College and
gained an enviable reputation as an
educator throughout the State. She
was several times employed in the fac
ulties of summer normal Institutes and
was appointed by Governor Tillman a
member of the commission whose duty
1t was to submit plans for the proposed
state school for women In all these
positions her fine common sense and
talent together with the most consci-
entious fidelity to duty made her con-
spicuously useful and successful.
Miss Yeargin was II most devout
Christian. She was q member OF the
Methodist Church and u Jealous work.
er in the cause of the Saviour. An
accomplished eloeutionist, she was
often called upon to assist in charita'
BILE entertainments and invariably re-
sponded with Willingness.
For the past year Miss Yeargin had
been at Cornell Univ Esity perfecting
her education. She was an ambitious
seeker after knowledge and 1t is be.
lieyed that had her life been spared
she would have taken rank among
the leading women of the country.
Her death Is o loss not only to her own
family and community but to the State.