Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-09-01
DIED IN NEW YORK.
Sudden Death Of Mrs. r. D. Shepherd Away
from Home-Other Deaths.

from home-Other Deaths.
Mrs. Marie Prescott Shepherd, wife
of Mr.. r. D. Shepherd. of this place,
died in New York Monday night from
the effects of surgical operation. a
week or two ago Mr.. and Mrs. Shep-
herd went to New York to see il re-
lief could not be obtained by an OPP
Grafton. She had been suffering for
a long time from an abdominal tumor.
Recently its growth had greatly in
creased, and there was just chance
of saving her life. Mrs. Shepherd
bravely took this chance. Last Thurs
day she went to the Good Samaritan
Hospital on Forty-third street to pre-
pare for the ordeal. Monday was
the day fixed for the operation. With
a GOODNESS and courage rarely found
she aided in the preparations, herself
helping TO arrange the operating
table and the surgical appliances. At
II. 30 DR.. w. Gill Wylie put the patient
under the influence of ether. For
four hours he and his assistants
worked for the removal of most ma
lignant tumor, the accomplishment
of which was made doubly difficult
and dangerous by the great number
70 adhesions to the adjoining parts.
The tumor weighed twenty-five
pounds. The operation was such that
great loss of blood was unavoidable,
and this was probably the cause Of
death Mrs. Shepherd afterward re-
covered consciousness, but at 10
o'clock at night she passed away, her
husband being with her to the last.
The remains were brought to Shop
herdstown Wednesday morning and
inferred in ElmwOod Cemetery. Rev.
Dr. VIM H. Nelson, of the Episcopal
Church, read the burial service, the
funeral taking place directly after
the arrival Of the train at II o'clock.
Marie Prescott was born near Paris,
kentucky, in 1853 Her ancestors
were among the best-kuOwn pioneers
Of that State. Her father was Victor
Prescott. In 1869, while still in her
teens, she married Edward James
Burke at Carrollton, Ky. Two sons
were born to them, one of whom sur
wives her. An unhappy married life
in II 1874 Miss
Prescott made her debut as an actress
in Cincinnati, and at once rose to an
enviable place in the profession, play
ing with such eminent actors as Sal
vini, Mccullough and others. In 1881
she was married to William Perzel, Of
New York, from whom she afterward
obtained Il divorce. In 1856 Miss
Prescott and Mr.. Il. ID. Mclean (R. ID.
Shepherd began a starring tour to-
gether, playing "Ingomar,' THE
Gladiator and several of Shakes
peare's plays. In June, 1892, she and
Mr.. Shepherd were married, and at
the close of last season they retired
from the stage and settled down on
Mr.. Shepherds splendid Wild Goose
stock farm near this place.
Mrs. Shepherd was a women of win
ming personality and wonderful intel
lect. An actress Of power and skill,
she was at the same time possessed of
every womanly accomplishment.
Her husband, in speaking of her
Wednesday, said she could cook
meal or act a Shakesperian tragedy;
she could make dress or write a
play-and did both when occasion re-
quired; she was skilled in every do
nestle undertaking, and there was
scarcely an intellectual or business
accomplis hment which she did not
possess in greater or less degree.
She was a remarkably gifted woman.
Her sad death is greatly to be regret
ted at this time when, after the yicis
STUDIES of busy life, she was just en-
tering upon Il rest from hard work
duNl li4C tIiJON lIlCA4A VI u NC"t''iJ '''N
that was to her an ideal existence.
Miss Virginia Wright and Mr.. r. ).
NJ. Hoffman were called to Baltimore
last Friday by telegram announc-
ing the death of Miss Wright's father,
Mr. r. |. Wright He had been sick
for O week or two of bilious dVSeu-
terry, but his illness was not consider
ed dangerous and his death came
quite unexpect teddy.
Dlrs. Phoebe Winebrenner, rehct Of
the late Christian Winebrenner and
mother of Mrs. Daniel Getzendannsr,
of Kearneysvile, this county, died at
her home in Walkersville, Md, last
Friday, aged rs years. Mrs. Getzan-
danner was with her mother when
she died