The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-09
Never Recovered Entirely
From Runaway Accident.
LIVED FOR OTHERS
Death of Bright Woman Who Fount
Time For a Diversity of Chari-
table and Patriotic Work.
Funeral Not Yet Ar
ranged For.

ranged FOr.
Mrs. F. A. Olds, whose critical ill
ness for the past several weeks has
been a cause of deep anxiety to hun
dreds of people in all parts of the
State, died at quarter of two o'clock
yesterday afternoon at her home on
the corner of South Salisbury and
Cabarrus streets.
1t is thought that her death was
due in large measure to a runaway
accident by which she was injured
as long ago as April goth. Mrs. Olds
was injured and had since that day
been partially lame. having to use
crutch in walking She was also in
jured internally and had never entirely
recovered her health. Two weeks ago
she was attacked acutely with infiam-
nation of the stomach and, from the
first, it was APPARENT that her condition
was serious.
Mrs. Olds was twice married and is
survived by her husband. Col. F. A.
Odds, the widely known newspaper
correspondent, and four children
Mrs Thos j. Dupree, of Memphis
Tenn, and Mrs. r. E. L. Bunch, OF
Washington, d. c., and Messrs. Fred
G.. and Douglass Oljs, of Waco, Texas
both of whom arrived in the city
few days before their mothers death
Mrs. Dupree and Mrs. Bunch are
the children of the late John d. Prim-
rose. Esq, who died in 1872. his widow
being married to Col Olds on Junh
27th, 1878.
Many kilograms of sympathy have
been received by the family and there
were constant calls from numerous
SorrowingS friends within the city. The
funeral services, the time for which
has not yet been decided upon, will
be attended by several friends from
distant points.
Mrs Kate A. Olds was born at Sum-
erville, Tennessee in 1852 and was
the daughter of DIR Robert II. Can
non, who belonged to the North Caro-
lima family of that name, and Honora
DevereuX, a daughter of the late Thos
p. DevereuX, of Raleigh.
Her life was an active one and her
energies devoted for years to work
of a charitable character. Besides be-
ing for many years an active mem
Der of the Church of the Good Shep-
herd and enthusiastically engaged III
it's work among the poor, she found
time to labor along many benevolent
and patriotic lines. She was one OF
the originators and managers of the
Associated Charities and of the Day
Nursery, for a long time one Of the
managers of the Ladies Hospital Aid
Society for Rex Hospital was presi-
dent of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy of North Carolina, identi-
fed with the local chapter and FIRE.
uuent delegate to the National meet
ings of the association. In addition
she was active in Kings Daughters
work and one of the secretaries OF
the State Chapter, was president OF
H. .f,,1 oh.
ties, the st. Luke's Home for Old
Women, and was, generally helpful in
any and all charitable associations o,
movements in city and State alike.
The proper fitting up and furnishing
of the Soldiers Home. was largely in
spired and greatly assisted through
her efforts and the slow but certain
growth of the idea for a State Re
formatory for youth criminals has
resulted from her constant zeal In
behalf of that needed and philan-
thropic reform.
The above is something of the pub
lie character of a remarkable wo-
man. Personally, she was one of thos .
rare and funny-hearted souls who
have the capacity to figure promi-
nently in public movements and al
the same time keep unimpaired the
manhood. She was friend of all the
world''-but for all that. the love that
she poured out so freely was COM
prehensive rather than diffused. In
her family ties. with her closer friends
she loved singly and passionately-
but her fellow-feeling was as broad
as all life, as catholic as humanity
itself No suffering individual ever
called on her in vain ever failed to
get the time and aid and helpful pity
of the woman who was always busy.
Mrs. Olds had grown into the life
of the people of Raleigh-how deeply
the community has fully understood
ONLY since the fear of her loss had
come to haunt the sense of her good
ness! She knew everybody and Every
one knew her. Always busy, always
with some mission of mercy on hand
she paused always to pick the &C
quaintance from the crowd. to plant a
cherry word, a helpful thought before
she went her wayi
Her life was lived freely. gladly and
happily for others, and her death
gives to the city the blow that moth
ing save the loss of one with tn.
Spirit of Christ can give. But it leaves
a memory that is as refreshing. as
sweet and as pure as the cedar
scented air of the eternal hillsi
To the husband AMI children-to
the many poor ones she has helped
to them there can be no word to say
that would express the proper depth
of sympathy. The knowledge of what