Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-01-22
SOUTH oARoIINA vEDSssDAY, 5ANuARY - toos

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3sNEws FROM wEsTMuNsTER.
Death of Mrs. Anna II. ParIse Per-
sonals Handsome Monuments.
Westminster. Jam 81. Special: !:
Prof. Ford 4. Cox conducted services
| In the Baptist church Sunday night
by request Of the pastor, Rev. j. R.
Moore, who has been nnwelf for sev.
| ieral days Prof. Cox fis q graduate
lof Furman University. and took q
three years post grsduat course In 8
ological seminary at Rochester
~ f, preparatory to entering the
ministry. While In the seminary his
health gave way, and he is now en-
gagged In teaching with the hope OF
|recuperating for active duties in his
10 has charge Of the
eighth grade of the Westminster
Graded School. AS both preacher
and educator he is a young man OF
great promise.
After an illness OF nine weeks Mrs.
Anna Reese Parker died at the home
of Capt. w. r. Parker at half past
| two O'CLOCK last SUNDAY afternoon
In her 44th year. Conaumptfon of
the bowels was the cause OF her
death. She was the wife OF Thomas
Oconee Parker, and was a native of
Water Valley, Miss. Her maiden
name was Reese. She was an or
phan, and Was reared by her grand.
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Cox, OF Water
Valley. She had been married about
Twenty-Five years, and came here
ltwenty-one years ago last November.
Surviving her are one daughter, Mrs.
Albert Campbell, s. of Shreveport, La,
and two sons Robert, aged 1S, and
VIII Frank, aged 10. . "A sad circum-
stance In this dispensation of Proyi-
dence was .aat Mrs Campbell, who
had been by the bedside of her sick
mother for six weeks or more, was
Unexpectedly called home Thursday
on account of the critical illness of
her husband, and was not with ner
mother when the end came. In the
death of Mrs. Parker there Is a va va
cancy In the home that can never be
hlled. She was woman of a kind,
amiable disposition, and her many
friends deeply sympathize with the
family SO sorely bereaved Mrs.
Parker was aSmember a of4the Presby-
terfan ch Irch. AT noon Yesterday
her BODY was buried In the cemetery
Just aoross the street from where she
died by tasSsss.de of the & sef her
dsU Shter, Bena Reese, @ ;Sied In
INFANCY. Services wepsg S.ducted at
the grave by Rev. j. Sx aarrell, and
assisted by Revs. A. p. Marett and
r. T. Cox. s5
Barns Norris, SONY Mr. and
n A tenEram from n Albert bert
Campbell Saturday stated :, Dat her
husbands condition had some what
improved. He has pneumonia.
Rev, j. r. Moore, the beloved pas,
tor of the Baptist church, has been
indisposed on account of cold and
grip. He was able to fill his appoint
ment Sunday. and his friends wish
him speedy recovery
The Stonecypher Drug Company
are having their store wired. pre-
paratory to lighting with electricity.
The following deaths are reported
from the mill village within the past
few weeks: George Guy, married
man; Miss Suttles, aged sixteen, and
James Dowis, the fourteen-vear-old
son of Jeff Dowis. The bod. 'of Mr..
Guy and Miss Suttles were inferred
in the Old Westminster cemetery.
The interment of young Dowis took
place at Cross Roads on Chauga last
Friday. 7a i
Mrs. C. p. o. Mitchell is reported
very Ill this morning. Her friends
hope to hear of an early improve
ment. a Ga
Rev j. l.. Singleton will preach in
the Methodist church next Sabbath
at $50 Sp. m.5 and I'm the Baptist
church on the first Sunday In Feb
ruary at 7.30 p. IN.
A. Erank Davis died in the East
End gon Saturday night from the eff
fects of measles and pneumonia. He
was a son of j. ~. Davis and was
reared In the Unity section, above
Madison, He leaves a wife and one
child. Interment occurred at Pleas!
ant Ridge cemetery on Monday.
@. %. Gray, proprietor of the Oco-
nee Steam Marble and Granite
Works, has erected for Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Matheson and Mr.. and Mrs. w.
M. zimmerman very pretty monu-
ments over the graves OF their de-
ceased babes, Gerald and Zelma.
Both have q statue representing an
|angel with outstretched wings. The
statues are of imported Italian mar
bic, and were shipped from Carrara,
italy. This is the first Imported
marble placed in the new cemetery.
r The next lyceum attraction will be
February To-
Freeman Hunter, OF Toccoa, Ca.
was here on business Monday.
Mrs. Cox, wife of William Cox, re-
siding two miles below Oakway,
died on lasr Thursday. s
Mr.. and Mrs. w. p. Anderson re-
turned yesterday from q brief visit
to Atlanta. q s. : b
Mr.. Lawrence, who resides at the
Shields Martin old place, fell from a