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DEATH OF MRS. r. C. HEMPHILL.

Mrs. Jessie Culver Hemphill, wife
of Mr.. R. G. Hemphill, died at their
home in Aurora, Colo, last Saturday
morning at three forty-five o'clock,
January 9th, 1915, after an illness
of two weeks with grip.
News came to Abbeville several
days before Christmas that Mrs.
Hemphill was very i'll and then
Christmas day that "Jessie was bet
ter" After this nothing was
heard until last Friday and the mes
sage came that she had grown worse
and there was no hope. Saturday
morning the news came that death
had come as relief from her suf-
fering.
Mrs. Hemphill has been in failing
health for many years and has
sought many climates in the hope of
being made well and strong. Three
years ago she came to Abbeville and
spent several months at the home of
Mrs. R. R. Hemphill, hoping that the
sunshine and balmy air of the
South would give her new lease on
life. By her sweet attractiveness,
her accomplishments, her gentle man
ner, she endeared herself to all
with whom she came in contact, and
these friends and relatives of the
South, grieve with the disconsolate
husband, the parents and family,
that one, in whom the love of life
was strong and who found it so
bright and beautiful, should have to
give up and pass into the great Un-
known.
Mrs. Hemphill was the fourth
child of Charles Richard and Clara
Rockefellow Culver, and was born
at Carson City, Mich, July 5th,
1887, and was therefore in her twen-
ty-ninth year. She was educated
at the Carson City High School and
was especially accomplished in
music and drawing. After finish
ing at the High School she taught
one year at Blackmere District in
Bloomer Township, and it was here
that her health begun to fail. She
went to Silver City, New Mexico,
and spent a year and returned home
feeling herself well. Her health
failed again and she went to Canon
City, Col. 1t was here she met
Mr.. Hemphill and they were married
Aug. 3rd, 1910, at the home OF
Mrs. Louis Hemmerle, and they have
made their home at Canon City,
Monte. Vista, and recently at Aurora,
Col. Each conscious that they
could not live in sny other climate,
they have clung with love and ten
derness to each other and their mar
ried life has been happy.
Mrs. Hemphill comes of brave and
substantial stock, her father being a
native of Ringwold, Kent, England,
spending his youth in the city of
London, and coming to America at
the age of seventeen. He settled
in Carson City, Mich, and was one
of it's leading merchants and for
several years was postmaster at that
place. He is a descendent of Sir
Robert Rook, who was Knighted Tor
bravery displayed at the taking OF
Gibraltar. The Culvers also were
conspicuous for bravery in the Crl-
mean War.
Mrs. Culver comes from the pio-
neer settlers of Maryland and Ohio,
her father being Irving RockefelloW
and her mother, Mary De Cirque, OF
French descent.
Mrs. Hemphill was taken to the
home of her childhood for burial.
She is survived by her father and
mother, and two brothers, Francis
and Chester Culver, and two sisters,
Misses Grace and Mary Culver. For
the past year Mrs. Culver has lived
with the young couple and has been
constant and faithful in her care and
attention. Mr.. Culver was spend
ing the holidays in Aurora and was
with his daughter in her last illness.
The sympathy of his boyhood
friends go out to the young husband
in his sore distress,