The herald., 1893-09-10
DEATH OF MRS. KIP.
The Venerable Widow of the Bishop
Joins Her Husband.

The Venerable widow of the Bishop
Joins her Husband.
Maria E. L. Kip, widow of the late
bishop OF California, died this morning,
says the San Francisco Report Of Fri
day, at the home of the family. She
had been suffering for come time from
the grip, and it was the immediate
cause of death. though abe had never
enjoyed perfect health since the last
days of her husbands illness.
Bishop Kip died, it will be remem-
bered, after a long illness, on April 7th
OF this year. For days he had lain un-
conscious, and his wife had remained by
his bed side night and day, knowing the
end to be near and waiting and hoping
to see her husband awaken once more
to q realization of life and recognize her.
The light never came and Bishop Kip
passed away unconscious of his end.
But the long strain told heavily on Mrs.
Kip, and, though she bore up nobly
during the days that followed, it was
easy for her friends to see that but a
little time would pass before she would
be called to JOIN him with whom her life
had been connected for 81 years.
This morning, just a day over five
months flom the day on which Bishop
Kip died, his widow passed peacefully
away.
She herself had full knowledge of her
approaching end. and left a letter to her
son telling him how she wished to be
buried. The pomp and ceremony oil a
burial from church had always seemed
to her unreal. She had horror for
show, and could not conceal, nor did
she try to conceal, that burials from
church were always repulsive to her.
In regard to such burials che believed
that most people attended them
through idle curiosity alone, and not
from feeling OF love for the dead. So
in her letter to William L. Kip she
directed that in no circumstances should
che be buried from church, and that
her funeral should be as simple as posei-
BILE. These instructions Mr.. Kip will
carry cut to the letter.
The deceased was born in New York
in 1912 and was 81 years and IL days
old when she died today. She was the
daughter of the president of the United
States bank and was one of the most
beautiful young ladies in the highest
circles of New York society when she
met William Ingraham Kip. He was "a
years OF age and she was % wnen they
were married. in 1886, shortly after his
graduation from Yale college. When he
entered the priesthood at Grace church,
New York, in that year, abe was the
sympathetic companion and true wife
that helped him to do his best. She ac-
companied him to Albany, and when he
came to this coast over two score years
ago she accompanied him. Her life here
was one of constant charity and kind
ness to all, and one of the monuments OF
her love for the unfortunate to which
her name was given by her friends is the
Maria Kip orphanage. Many will miss
her, and her memory will always be held
dear by all who met her.
Mrs Kip WAS proud of her family,
and rightly 90. The Lawrences are
noted in the history of America. That
Captain James Lawrence. whose famous
"Don't give up the shipp has been 30
often quoted, was her granduncle. His
portrait, In the uniform OF q captain,
which he wore when he died on June l,
1918, when the British ship Shannon
had attacked his vessel, the Chesa-
peake, hangs on the wall of the Eddy
street residence.
Two children survive her-Colonel
Lawrence Kip OF New York, who was
Aide-de-camp to General Sherman dur
ing the war and is q graduate of the
] United States military academy at West
! Point, and William IngrHhnIu Kip, -jr /.
| who lives in San Francisco. sd s1hH