Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-12-09
MRS. EDDY IS DEAD
NOTED CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
LEADER IS NO MORE.
Remarkable Woman Founder of ReA
ligious Movement Now Widespread
Noted Charity Worker-seclusion in
Declining Years Caused Lawsuit by
Relatives for Proof She Really Lived.

Declining Years Caused Lawsuit by
Relatives for Proof She Really Lived.
Boston, Mass, Dec. 5.-Mrs. Mary
Baker Glover Eddy, discoverer and
founder of the Christian Science church,
| is dead. Announcement of the passing
of the venerable leader, which occurred
late Saturday night at her home at
Chestnut hill, was made at the morning
service hele Sunday, in the mother
cuhrch.
"Natural causes explain the death,
according to Dr.. George l.. West, a
medical examiner, who was summoned a
few hours after Mrs. Eddy passed away.
Medical Examiner s Statement.
DIR. West made the following state
ment tonight: 81 was called to the
and arrived about 4:3O. l was met at
the door by Calvin A. Frye, and others
of the household, who directed me to
bedchamber on the second floor. Here
L met Mrs. Sargent.
81 found the body of woman of
about 80 years, lying on the bed, her
hands crossed over her breast. The face
was somewhat wasted, but kindly, and
in repose. / talked with Mr.. Frye, who
said Mrs. Eddy had been, in error
about a week and passed away very
quietly.
''Mr. Frye described the symptoms
and spoke of an Inflammation of the
chest which led me to the conclusion
that pneumonia had been the contribu-
tory cause of DEATH
The news of Mrs. Eddy's death was
made known simultaneously by Judge
Clifford P. Smith, first reader of the
mother church, at the close of the morn
ing service, and by Alfred Farlow of
the Christian Science publication com
mittee, in statement to the press.
According to Mr.. Farlow, Mrs. Eddy
passed away at quarter to IL o o'clock
Saturday night. "She had been indis-
posed for about nine days." said Mr..
Farlow's statement, "but had been up
and dressed, and as late as Thursday
transacted some business with one of
the officials of the church. She took her
daily afternoon drive Thursday, two
days before death. Saturday night she
fell quietly asleep and those around her
at first hardly realized that she had
gone. Her thought was clear until the
last, and she left no final messages.
emo physician was in attendance, but
she had the assistance of students who
comprised her household. With her at
the time of her death were Calvin A.
Frye, Mrs. Laura E. Sargent, Mrs. Ella
E. Rathvon, the Rev. rIving c. Tom.
linson, her corresponding secretary
William R. Rathvon, and her secretary
Adam H. Dickey.
, Funeral Will Be Private.
"'No arrangements regarding the time
or place of burial have been decided
1t is well known to her household that
she believed in simplicity on such oc
casions, and in compliance with this
knowledge it is expected the service
will be private and of a simple nature
Woman of Marked Attainment.
} Concord, N. H.-The farm upon which
Mrs. Eddy was born July 16, 1921, il
, the neighboring town of Bow, is short
/. distance from the Concord line, so that
D many of her childhood days were spent
t. in this city and she occasionally at
tended the old North Congregations
S church. The house in which she was
: born was burned in April, 1910.
: Mrs. Eddy first took up her residence
: in this city in 1889, living on Nortl
State street until 1882, when she pur
chased the estate subsequently know
as Pleasant View, which is on an emf
y nence between the city proper and st
:, Paul school.
/, She made many changes and i'm
e provements on her property and live'
o there until her departure to live in tn
b beautiful residence prepared for her a
J. Chestnut Hill, Boston suburb.
It Residence at Chestnut Hill.
. Mrs. Eddy took up her residence a
Chestnut Hill, Newton, in large ston
house in 1908, and there her last day
;. were passed.
a For the past three years she lived
Il quiet, peaceful life, much of it in seem
.. ing monotony, with her friends, an
a was consumed mostly in constant study
a. From a window at Chestnut Hill coul
a be seen the white dome of the Christia
A Science temple, planted close beside tn
"a little mother church, which she fOunde
9 80 years before. Mrs. Eddy's literar
efforts were almost wholly in prose, bu
her poems have been set to music a
=. hymns and are sung at all Christia
= Science meetings.