Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-19
OBITUARY.

Death of '. Fletcher Hermance, .
 Well Known Citizen of the Eighth
 ward-Death of mrs. Kent, an Aged
 Lady-Death of Mrs. E. M. Chipman
 Another Aged Lady-Death of mrs.
 Burke.
 J. Fletcher Hermance died ct his resi-
 dence, TIA State street, Saturday, aged
 fifty-nine. MT. Hermance was ohe of the
 best known citizens of the Eighth ward,
 having been at one hme registrar of the
 ward and having asaisted many times st
 the polls on election days. He leaves .
 wife and two sons to deeply mourn his logs. Mr. HermaHcs was In late years
 clerk at Msrrilrs grocery store. He died of pleurisy and attendant complications. Some time since he had fall by which one or more of his ribs was broken. After that he had to submit to surgical operations for the removal of water which had accu- mulated in the pleural cavity, and In his prostrated state pleurisy set in, causing his death. He was . man much respected. He resided on State street, near Trumbull, ] in a new house which he had erected .
 short time ago. He went out in the Twen- ty-seventh regiment, 0. V, as non com- missioned officer and returned lieutenant. He was good soldier and had an excellent record. The funeral services occur to- morrow afternoon. DEATH OF MRS KENT.
 Mra. Mary A. Kent died at o'clock yes terday afternoon at her homo, No. 34S Elm street, in the eighty-ninth year of her age. She was lady highly respected and vsner- ated for her virtues and Christrian charac- ter She was years ago Q member of Trin. ity church, but was in late years Q member of Christ church it being nearer her home. Ex-Postmaster B. R. English Is relative of the deceased, whose mother was an Eug. fish, and sister to the grandfather of OK: Postmaster English. Mrs. Kent was an own cousin of the late OK Governor James E. English. She died of infirmities attend ant upon old age complicated with heart disease. She was the widow of Bella Kent, who died many years ago. She had lived at 34S Elm street for the last twenty years. Previous to that she lived for long period on Chapel street, two doors east of Calvary
 Baptist church. Her sister, Mrs. El!zs Hopkinson, who resided with her for years, died about four years ago. Mrs Rents only child was the late Frank Kent a we'll known townsman, who was for many years clerk and bookkeeper for the New Haven Ice company.
 MRS. EMMA N. CHIPMAN.
 The friends of Mrs. Emma M. Ohipman widow of the late Joseph Chipmsn of Wa
 terbury, will learn with sorrow of he,
 death, which occurred early last evening at the residence ot her niece at 25 Court
 street. Mre. Chipman was born in West vile in 1877 and lived there for many about twenty. eight years, and came to live with her niece last July. She leaves ons son, Emmons Chipman, and a grandson George Chipman, both of whom reside ir Waterbury. The intermsnt will be in that city.
 DEATH or MRS. BURKE.
 Many friends will regret to hear of ths
 death of Mrs. Minnie 0. Curke, who died
 at Steiuway, Long Island City, Saturday after short illness. She leaves two children, the youngest babe of three weeks. News of her death came as 6 shock to her friends, as she was supposed to be recovering. She was the wife oi Frank Fl. Burke, business man, to whom she was married about four years ago She was the only daughter of R. W. Mills, the we'll known grocer on State street whose many friends will sympsthizs with him and the afflicted husband in their sad bereavement. MT. Mills was at her home 6 few days ego, at which time the pros poets were very bright for her recovery.