Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-04-03
MARY ANN EVANS
DEATH.
Particulars Concerning Her Sickness,
Demise and Burial Near
jerusalem.

jerusalem.
This morning a representative OF
the PALLADIUM called upon Nr. l.. j.
Woodland. son-in-law of Mary Ann
Evans, and from him learned the fol-
lowing particulars of Mrs. Evans
sickness and death. Details are still
very meagre, but they have the fol-
lowing facts obtained from letters
and cablegrams received:
Mrs. Evans contracted slight cold
while visiting the pyramids at Cairo,
but il wac not thought to be serious,
and when they left Alexandria on Feb
ruarv % she expected to be well very
soon, but at Jaffa, on the 23d of Feb
ruarv. she was unable for sight see
ing and FASTENED to Jerusalem, and
by next morning it was found she
had an acute attack of pneumonia.
She was at once taken to good
German Catholic hospital in Jerusa-
lem, where she received every kind
ness and attention ii was possible to
give. The mother superior of this
institution is a very kind lady, and
the same person who. as nurse in a
like institution at Alexandria, ten
years ago, was SO kind to Miss Sarah
Hussey while very i'll in that city.
Meeting her again was glad sur
prise.
Mrs. Evans two daughters, Mary
and Sarah, and sister, Miss Sarah
Hussey, were allowed free access to
her, and her brother, Timothy b.
Hussey, also remained with her I'M
= II DOTH 4 Tho nn6 of hn fi.St
week she was thought to be improv-
ing but when the ship was due to
sail from Jaffa she was not able to
join the party and Miss Hussey was
also sick at the same hospital, with
influenza, and so Mr. Hussey went to
the ship and had all their trunks
put off and the rest of the party
sailed away and left them behind
expecting, however, to join the party
little later This was on March Z.
Mrs. Evans seemed rather to improve
until the afternoon of March . when
to her daughter coming from
lunch Mrs Evans said NOW Mary
you had better go for your lunch.
Before, however she had gone diff
Guilty in breathing was observed and
she passed quietly away at 2 p. N. in
less than ten minutes from the time
she had spoken.
The laws are such that it is almost
impossible to bring a corpse from
that country, and it was decided to
bury her at Ramallah, a village and
mission station ten miles north OF
Jerusalem.
New England Yearly Meeting OF
Friends have mission there and
own a plat of ground Here her
brother, Mr.. Hussey. spent two years
superinte tending the mission work and
her sister, Miss Hussey, spent one
year. \ missionary, Charles Jones,
was also buried here some years ago.
1t is said to be a beautiful sunny
spot.
Here Mrs. Evans was buried on
the day following her death. Miss
Hussey was too i'll to leave the hos
pital Ten men on foot carried Mrs.
Evans body over the rough and mar
row stony way from Jerusalem to
Ramallah, and her brother, Mr.. Hus-
sey, and two daughters, Mary and
Sarah, three sorrowful mourners,
followed on donkies.
MlSS-ShAsossy seems To uavv Sio"h
worse after her sister S death, but
the 10th of March she was able to
leave the hospital and go to Jaffa,
where it is warmer. A cable from
there on that date says Sarah i'm
proving
On the 18th of March another
cable from Alexandria reports Miss
Hussey as having been very i'll, but
that the doctor thinks she will now
do well, and that the four started
homeward and will sail from Liver
pool. 1t is not known whether they
will return with the regular tourist
party or not. But they will have
ample time to do so, as the steamer
New England on which they went is
not expected to sail from Liverpool
until April II.