The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1914-08-12
DEATH OF MRS. BULLITT

LIN III Dig otone Zap friday
morning, August 9Th, after a
lingering illness covering a
period of five years. While her
death was not unexpected, yet
the suddeness of it came as n
shock, not only TO the family,
but to the entire community.
Mrs. Bullitt was Maggie Tai
bolt, the daughter Of Rev.
Jeremiah Talbot, an Episcopal
minister of Louisville, Ky. She
was born in 1859. In 1886, the
Bullitts came to Big Stone Gap
and for twenty eight years have
been closely identified with the
growth of the town. Indeed,
Mrs. Bullitt has been affection
ately called the "Mother Of Big
Stone Gap from the interest
which she has always shown in
its development.
As n girl i'll Kentucky, Mrs.
Bullitt possessed unusual beau
ty and n voice of remarkable
quality and sweetness. OF the
Talbot family only one brother,
Curran Talbot, of Chicago, now
survives.
OF Mrs. Bullitt's Immediate
family she is survived by her
husband, j. II. Bullitt, and
eight children These are Mrs.
Jno. w. Chnlkley, of this place;
Mrs. II. w. Durrett, of New
berry, Mich; Mrs. j. k. Tag
CART, of Keokee; Mrs. j. l..
Camblos, of Atlanta, Ga; Mrs.
X. E. Taggart, Miss julie Bull
lit, j. +. Bullitt, Jr., and Henry
Mcdowell Bullitt, of Big Stone
Gap.
y simple but very impressive
funeral service was conducted
Saturday afternoon at 1 O'Clock
at the Bullitt home by Rev.
Hubbard Lloyd, of Christ Episco.
pal Church. assisted by a
quartet composed of cid friends
of the deceased, Mrs. j. NJ.
Willis, j. p. Wolfe and MIR. and
Mrs. j. III. Mathews. A large
number of friends were present
and the profusion of flowers
bore mute witness To the af-
lection and esteem in which
Mrs. Bullitt was held.
At her request. six of her
former faithful colored ser
wants, win Looney, George
Slash, John Cloud, Sam Harris,
Major and Will Dykes, acted as
pali-bearers, carrying the body
the entire distance from the
Bullitt home to Glencoe Gene
terry in sorrowing silence. Eight
honorary pall-bearers, IL. T..
Fox, ID. b. Wentz, j. NJ. Good
loe, J.. o. Petit, r.. Il. Goodloe,
X. I. Irvine, DIR. j. w. Kelly,
of Big Stone Gap, and Judge
JOS. l.. Kelly, of Bristol, headed
the grief. stricken cortege and a
long line of pedestrians, car
riages and automobiles follow
ed. \ cement vault, lined with
n soft carpet of evergreen
boughs and flowers received her
casket and nowhere did the
sight of fresh earth offend the
eye.
In Maggie Talbot Bullitt we
have lost brave, indomitable
spirit. Frail and cmaciated in
body, yet month after month
she fought vaiiantly against
overwhelming odds, her superb
courage never once faltering.
Mrs. Bullitt was remarkable
woman in many ways, a woman
of high ideals and strong
character, an artist of no mean
ability, a talented musician.
cultured, refined, broad-minded.
With a ready wit ard a keen
sense of hulnor she was a gifted
conversationalist, and t n q
ravages of her long illness fail.
ed to dim her brilliant mind or
lessen the wonderful charm of
manner which for lack of a
better term we call personal
magnetism.
Carefully educated, Mrs. Bull
lit was essentially a home
woman, intensely feminine,
skilled in household arts and
needlecraft, a devoted wife and