The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-23
OBITUARY.

Mrs. Louise Mildred Leavell, widow Of
| the late John Minor LeaveIl. of Culpeper.
| Virginia. esquire. and mother of Mr.. b
| Ashby Leavell, of Washington, died at
| the residence Gf the latter, Corcoran
| Street northwest. on Sunday last at 2:4o
! p. m. Deceased had reached her seventy
| fifth year. and had been in Ill health for
some time. Her inyalidism had reduced
/ her power to resist the attacks of disease
II issr time OF life. and a recent attack
| which, in 2 younger person. might have
| been successfully combated, proved fatal
| but not until it had been possible to sum-
mon all of her children to her bedside.
and it was their sad satisfaction to be
| with her when she passed away. Mrs.
| Leavell was Virginia lady of the old
| stock. and her mortal remains will be laid
! to rest in the Old Dominion. the land of
| her fatherS. The body will be conveyed
| this morning to Culpeper. and the ser
] vices for the dead viii he held in st.
Stephens Episcopal Church. of which she
| was long member in that place. The
| nterment will be in the family lot in the
| Culpeper Masonic Cemetery.
Capt. John E. Wyatt, of the United
States lighthouse tender Jessamine died
| in Baltimore yesterday morning. aged six
ty-eight years. He was native of Som
erset County. Md. but ran away from
home at the age of ten years to crafty
his inclination for maritime life. and
shipped at Philadelphia on board a ves-
sci bound for Liverpool. From Liverpool
he went to Rio de Jaueiro. and he had
followed the sea ever since.
Captain Wyatt owned several vessels at
different times. He was shut up in the
port of Charleston, S. C. with one of his
vessels when the blockade of that port
was established during the civil war, but
sold his vessel and made his way to Bal
timore, where he engaged in the Federal
service as a pilot and master of a trans
port. He served in this capacity through
the remainder of the civil war. For the
last thirty years he had been engaged in
the United States lighthouse service
Mrs. Rachel Conover Conrow. widow of
Adam Conrow, who died on Saturday at
her home, IS Montgomery Place. Brook
lyn, in her ninety-first year was the
ninth desc ndant in direct line from VIII
furt Van Couwenhoven, who settled in
Monmouth County, N j.. in 1850 She
had been a resident of Brooklyn for half
q century. She leaves three sons. three
daughters, fourteen grandchildren, and
four great-grandchildren.
Col Charles Keller, Twenty-third Infan-
try, died yesterday in San Antonio. Tex
Colonel Keller was born in Pennsylvania
and was appointed to the Military Aead-
envy in 1861 from that State. He was for
several years lieutenant colonel of the
Twenty-second Infantry. and succeeded
Col. George W. Davis, of the Twenty
third Infantry, when the latter was pro-
NOTED to be brigadier general.
James Middledith died yesterday morn
ing at his home, 50 Mercer Avenue. North
Plainfield, y. j., from acute Bright's dis
ease He was born in Baltimore in 1916,
and for twenty-four years lived in Plain
field He was a broker and was formerly
a member of the New York Stock Ex-
change. He leaves widow. a son. and a
daughter The latter is Mrs. Tremayne.
of Buffalo, y. Y.
Nine. Ursula Digman. aged eighty-one,
is dead at Columbia, S. c. Just sixty
years ago she came from Ireland with
Bishop England, and had been nun for
ffty-seven years. She was at the burning
of Columbia : hen it was destroyed. Nine
Ursula was directress of the Ursulins
Convent at Columbia.