Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-08-31
KILLED NEAR AsHEvlLLE, N. C..
Mrs. M. =. Mallory, Native Of oullford,
Victim Of an Aeeldent-Founded Con-
sumptlves' Home

sumptlVes Home.
News was received in Springfield,
Mass, Monday that Mrs. NJ. franklin
Mallory, 3d. had been killed by train
at Black Mountain, near Asheville, N.
c. The circumstances of the accident are
not known. but 1t is assumed that she
was walking from her sanltarium at
Black Mountain to Asheville. where she
was accustomed to get supplies, and that
she was accidentally struck by a train.
Mrs. Mallory went South several years
ago for the purpose of establishing a
home for northern consumptives on
previous visit she had been impressed
with the difficulty which such invalids
encountered in trying to find suitable
resorts at satisfactory rates. She had
built up a sanitarium at Black Mountain,
about half-mile from Ashevile Before
going South Mrs. Mallory was a seam
stress in Springfield and did dressmaking
in many of the leading families of that
city. She lived there nearly 20 years,
following the death of her husband
Mrs. Mallory was daughter of Jed
edlah Franklin Of Guilford. George
Franklin and d. ID. Franklin of Gulford
are her brothers, and her sister, Mrs.
Jane Whitney has lived in Brattleboro
and in Guilford in recent years. Another
sister, Mrs. John Edwards, lives in
Nebraska. on hearing OF the accident
Mrs. Mallory's daughter, Mrs George
E. Switzer of Bay Path. Springfield, left
for Asheville. Mrs. Mallory left two
sons and another daughter, who live near
Greenfield.
The death of her own daughter from
consumption called to Mrs. Mallory's at
tentlon the condition of people from the
North, OF limited means, who go South,
among strangers to fight the white
plague, and who are compelled to live in
cheap boarding houses. These people,
sick. dispirited and without nutritious
food. soon fall into a hopeless condition.
BY personal solicitation, largely among
people of western Massachusetts-(' beg
ging" Mrs Mallory called this work. she
raised money sufficient for the purchase
OF 200 acres Of land and the erection of
a commodious two-story home where
nearly 20 people could be given ac-
commodations. Here people afflicted with
pulmonary troubles were given home
like surroundings, with all the cond-
tions essential for the recovery of health.
Board and accommodations al the home
cost only SO per week. and even this sum
was not charged to sufferers without
means. a large percentage OF the
people accommodated at the home I'm the
past six years have entirely regained In
health and some of the recoveries were
surprising to the physicians Mrs. NAL
lory was the mother of this home. and in
addition to its general management made
trips to the North whenever opportunity
offered to raise funds to carry on the
good work. The financial problem was
the most difficult one which Mrs. NAL
lory encountered, but she never faltered
Within few weeks she had been In Gin
cinnati soliciting contributions so that
she might pay of the mortgage OF $500 on
the home. buy cows to furnish milk for
the patients and implements to be used
in cultivaung the farm. Mrs. Mallory
hoped eventually to establish system
of cottages on the estate so that a
brother sister. wife or mother might live
with the person AFFLICTED. Mrs. Mallory
had worked in Brattleboro and vicinity
in raising funds and people here had
sincere admiration for this sweet faced.
white haired woman whose heart and
soul were in the work to which she had
dedicated her life. This work was
humanitarian in the highest sense and
her untimely death may mean the end
of a very deserving institution.