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DEATH OF MRS PETERs.-HAD BEEN CONFINED TO HER RED SINCE NOVEMBER, BUT THE END CAME PEACEFULLY.

BEEN CONFINED TO HER RED
 SINCE NOVEMBER BUT THE
 END CAME PEACEFULLY.
 Mrs Camilla Wright Peters. widow Of Bernard Peters, who was editor of the Brooklyn Times for over a quar- ter of a century, died peacefully and painlessly Ut her home, S3 Lee aye- nue, at l0' o'clock Monday night, Apfll ,, of paralysis. She had been sick since November IS, and her end was not unexpected, though she had shown remarkable vitality to nearly the last. At the time of her demise all the immediate members of her family were at her bedside. Funeral services were held at St Johns NJ. E. church, Bedford avenue and Wilson street, Brooklyn, Wednesday, April [, at s ?. m. Camilla Wright Pollock Peters was born at Wheeling, W. Va., October 29, 1880. She was the daughter of thomas Pollock and Emily Fairchild, her mother being of Revolutionary stock. She was mar ried to Mir Peters on June 3, 1851, at the old Pollock home, in Marshall County, Va,, where her parents had moved from Wheeling, and where the family resided for about twenty years. MT Peters had come from Marietta, O., to teach in the district school. He had studied law and afterwards took up the ministry and was ordained as a clergyman of the Uniyersalist church. Mrs Peters was educated under private tutors at home and at private schools in Wheeling, and at Marietta, O. Lat CT she attended the Clinton Liberal Institute in New York State. Dur ing the years that led up to and dur ing the early part of the Civil war MT Peters was pastor of the First Universalist church of Williamsburg, now All Souls Church, on Ocean ave- nue, Flatbush. During these years Mrs Peters worked for the Sanitary Commission which was organized a. mong the women of the North. Many of the young men of the church society went to the front and especially was this true of her own Bible class, She worked untiringly to do her part toward raising money for the medical supplies so sorely needed at the front. Mir Peters, dur. ing his married life, was in charge of Universalisls churches in Cincinna- ii, O., Hartford, Conn.,, and Reading, Pa., as well as in Brooklyn. It was in Brooklyn and Hartford that he was, drawn into journalism. He wrote for the Hartford Post, and he contributed to the Brooklyn Times, in 1898. Mrs Peters at once took a deep interest in his work. She con, tributed extensively to it's columns for a number of years. In early life Mrs Peters was a Universalist, but in later years she tooK up the study of the works in Swedenborg, and to- gether with ner two brothers and a sister joined the Academy Branch of the New Church, to the doctrines Of which sne was firm adnerent. Mrs Peters always was woman of most active mind. She was of a charitable disposition, and was for many years connected with the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, the Brooklyn Diet Dispensary, the East ern District Industrial School and the American National Red Cross. Mrs Peters was one of the founders of Chiropeau, whose name she orig mated. She was a warm supporter of the aims 9f the Woman's Health Pro- tective Association, and member of the Woman's Anti-Suffrage Associa- tlon. In recent years she joined the Daughters of the Revolution, Long island Chapter, Fort Greene Chap ter, Daughters of tie American Rev olution, New York Division, Society Of New England Women, and the Colonial Daughters of the Seven teenth Century. when preparations were under way for Brooklyn Day at the Nashville Exposition, some of the women societies of Brooklyn re- quested that woman be placed as one of the speakers on the program
 The committee at once selected Mrs Peters to fill the position, and she attended the exposition and spoke at that time. Although not the or ganizer, Mrs Peters was the moving spirit in what was known as the Caecilia Ladies Vocal Society. She was its president for more than a decade. This was the choral organi- zation devoted to the rendering of choruses written for women's voices
 and was notable success for several years, under different leaders, and especially under the musical direc- ticn of John Hyatt Brewer. Mrs Peters is survived by a son, Thomas P. Peters, and a daughter, Mrs James A. Sperry; seven grandchil-