The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-09
MISS GEORGIA sCREvEN DEAD.
Just Seven Months After Her Fathers
Denth She Passed Away.

Miss Georgia Bryan Screven, eldest
daughter and child of the late Col. John
Screven, died at the family residence, at
the corner of Congress and Abercorn
streets. last nigh. after serious illness of
only few hours.
For two or three weeks Miss Screven
had complained of attacks of a malady
which had caused her much pain during
her life, acute indigestion, but no one of
the family regarded her as being serious
ly i'll. On former occasions attacks of
indigestion had been attended by fainting
spells, which had passed with their cause,
and it was believed that the indisposition
which Miss Screven endured so quietly
and patiently would be at an end in a few
days
Yesterday at noon her illness became
more threatening and Maj. Thomas
Screven was summoned from his office to
the bedside of his sister. She was then
regarded as seriously i'll, but it was not
believed even then that there was any
thing dangerous to apprehend. Maj
Screven returned to his office, but in the
late afternoon was again summoned. Then
the danger had become fully apparent,
and DIR. Duncan, the family physician,
asked that DIR. Charlton be summoned
message was sent for the latter ply
stefan, but he did not receive it in time
10 reach Miss Screvens bedside before
she expired.
At 7:3O o'clock il could be seen that
the end was approaching Maj. Screven,
who had started to go to his office to at
tend to some imperative duties remained
and other members of the family were
present when Miss Screven breathed her
last. She was conscious to the end and
her last moments made a picture of beau
tiful faith and trusting resignation
Calmly and quietly she intimated the dis
position she wished made of her worldly
affairs and effects; then, equally calmly.
said that if her time had come, she was
prepared and ready. So the end came.
Dr Duncan pronounced the death due
to heart disease, following the attack of
acute indigestion from which Miss Sore
ven suffered. Powerful heart stimuiants
were used to strengthen the action of that
organ, but they were of no avail and its
functions gradually ceased.
A strange fact in connection with the
death is that it came within few hours
of exactly seven months of the death
of her father, Col. John Screven. Col
Screven expired in the early morning OF
January 3, while his daughter breathed
ner last In the early evening of August g.
Miss Screven leaves surviving her a
brother, Maj. Thomas Screven, and two
sisters, Mrs. Samuel C. Atkinson and Mrs
Elizabeth Woodbridge Arnold, the former
sister of Brunswick and the latter of Jer-
sey city Both have been notified of her
death, but 1t is feared that Mrs. Arnold,
who is at present in the mountains of
Vermont will not be able to reach the city
in time for the funeral.
This will take place from the residence
tomorrow morning, at an hour which has
not yet been definitely determined. The in
terment will be in the family vault in
Laurel Grove, where rest also the bodies
OF Miss Screven's father and mother.
Miss Screven was a woman of beautiful
character, benevolent in her dealings with
the needy and distressed. tender in her
mlnistrations at the bedside of the sick
charltab bic in her judgment of others. She
was known of many in Savannah and
the announcement of her death will cause
a shock of lasting and profound grief