The times., 1901-04-23
OBITUARY.

Mrs. Louise Mildred Leavell widow OF
the late John Minor LeaveH Of Culpeper.
Virginia. esquire. and mother of Mr.. b
Ashby Leavell, of Washington, died at
the residence of the latter. Corcoran
Street northwest, on Sunday last al 2:40
p. IN. Deceased had reached her seventy
fifth year and had been in III health for
some time. Her invalidism had reduced
her power to resist the attacks of disease
at her time OF life. and a recent attack
which, in a younger person, might have
been successfully combated, proved fatal.
but not until it had been possible to sum
mon all of her children 10 her bedside.
and it was their sad satisfaction to be
with her when she passed away. Mrs
Leaveu was a 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 viii be conveyed
this morning to Culpeper. and the ser
vices for the dead viii be held in St
Stephens Episcopal Church. OF which she
was long member in that place The
interment viii 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 a native of Som
erset County Md. but ran away from
home at the age Of ten years to crafty
his inclination for a maritime life. and
shipped at Philadelphia on board a ves-
sci bound for Liverpool From Liverpool
he went to Rio de Janeiro. and he had
followed the sea ever since.
Captain Wyatt 8wned several vessels at
different times. He was shut up in the
port of Charleston, 5. 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 10 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, III her ninety-first year, was the
ninth descendant IN direct line from VIII
furt Van Couwenh0ven, who settled in
Monmouth County y. j.. in 1850 She
had been a resident of Brooklyn for half
a century. She leaves three sons. three
daughters, fourteen grandchildren, and
four dt-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 Acad-
emy in 1861 from that State. He was for
several years lieutenant colonel of the
Twenty-second Infantry. and succeeded
Col. George ". Davis, of the Twenty
third Infantry. when the latter was pro-
moted to be a brigadier general
James MiddlediJh died yesterday morn
ing at his home. 80 Mercer Avenue, North
Plainheld, \. J., from acute Bright's dis
ease He was born in Baltimore in 1875.
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 a widow. "A son. and a
The latter IS Mrs. Tremayne.
Of Buffalo, y. Y.
Nine. Ursula Digman. aged eighty-One,
IS dead at Columbia. 5. c. Just sixty
,ears ago she came from Ireland with
Bishop England, and had been a nun for
ifty-seven years. She was at the burning
II Columbia when it was destroyed Nine.
-rsula was di-ectress Of the Ursulins
convent at Columbia.