Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-11-11
The Death Record.

Col. Robert Byrd Lewis died at hi
residence in Washington City Monday
afternoon, about 5 o'clock. He had
been suffering for more than year
but his death was sudden at last. Col
onel Lewis was born in Westmoreland
county, Virginia, in 184l, and was one
of the nearest living relatives of Pres
ident George Washington, being the
great-grandson of Betty Washington
who married Col. Fielding Lewis, and
son of the late Judge George W.
Lewis, of Westmoreland, Va. During
the late war he served in the Confed-
crate service, being a member of the
9th Virginia Cavalry of General
"Rooney" Lees brigade. He was a
gallant soldier and carried on his body
the marks of nine bullet wounds, FIVE
of which were received in one action.
he was the president of the Confeder-
ate Veterans Association of Washing
ton and stood high in the legal profess
sion. He had been a member of the
Washington bar about eighteen years,
and was connected with many impor-
tant cases. Colonel Lewis married
Miss Louisa Parran, daughter Of the
late DR.. Parran, of Shepherdstown,
more than twenty-five years ago. She
survives him. The funeral was held
in Washington Tuesday afternoon, and
Wednesday the remains were brought
to Shepnerdstown and inferred in Elm
wood Cemetery.
The community was greatly shocked
Friday morning by the announcement
that Miss Mary Eugenia Turner, eldest
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George 81.
Turner, had died suddenly at the res
idence of her uncle, DR.. Thornton W.
Tomlinson, in this city, at about four
o'clock that morning, from heart fail
ure. Miss Turner had been visiting
her uncle, and had been slightly indis-
posed for the past ten days, but there
was nothing in her condition to ex-
cite the least alarm. The evening be-
fore she had been up and appeared
much better. About three o'clock DR..
Tomlinson was aroused by the an
nouncement that his niece had gotten
out of bed and had tainted. He as
sisted in putting her back in bed, and
the application of the usual restora-
tives failing to restore consciousness,
DR.. Van L. Perry was at once sum-
moned, arriving little after 4 o'clock.
Consciousness never returned. The
patient was beyond the help of medi-
cal skill, and death followed soon after
the arrival of the physician.-Chartes-
tom Advocate.
Mr.. Herman L. Lewis, a nephew of
Mr.. G. T. Hodges, Of Shepherdstown,
and brother of DR.. Maurice Lewis,
who formerly resided here, met with
a shocking death in Washington City
early last Friday morning. He was
struck by locomotive of the Penn
sylvania Railroad and instantly killed,
his body being mangled almost be-
yond recognition. Mr.. Lewis was a
clerk in the congressional postoffice
and leaves a wife and one child.
Mrs. Maria mcfarland died at the
residence of Mrs. Isaac Fouke, in this
place, at one o'clock yesterday morn
ing, in the 96th year of her age. She
was for many years a consistent COM
municant of the Presbyterian Church,
and leaves a brother in New York
and two sisters, Miss Ellen Rocken-
baugh of this place, and Mrs. Michael
Foley of the Zoar vicinity.-Splr1t.
Mr.. Joseph s. Emmert, a we'll
known resident of Hagerstown, died
last week, aged SO years. He was a
brother of Mr.. Frank Emmert, Mrs.
VIM. T. Stewart and Mrs. Ella Snod-
grass, of Martinsburg. He formerly
lived in Martinsburg, where he was en-
gagged in the coal business.
Mrs. Mary F. Dutton, widow Of the
late Rev. DR.. w. B. Dutton, once pas
tor of the Presbyterian Church Of
Charlestown, was paralyzed last week.
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