The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-03-09
Mrs. Laura 2. RHart.

Mrs. Laura 2. EHart.
"a wonderful stream is the River Of
Time,
AS it runs through the realms OF
Tears,
With a faultless rhythm and musical
rhyme,
and a broader sweep and a surge
sublime,
AS it blends with the Ocean of years" !"
It is a wise provision of an all wise
providence that this wonderful stream
can blend so gently and so softly with
the ocean Of years. And it flows on
and on with a faultless rhythm, even
through the realm Of tears. 1t Is
truly a wonderful stream, this river
of time. Sometimes it seems to be
rushing and tossing over the break
ers, and then it flows with an eddy
that seems scarcely to be moving, but
always with a musical rhyme, Wheth-
er it be sad or sweet, and it blends
beautifully with the ocean of years.
How the winters are drifting like
fakes of snow,
And the summer like buds between,
And the year in the sheaf-so they
come and go
On the rivers breast, with its ebb
and flow
AS it glides in the shadow and sheen"
Another link which binds this COM
nfunity to The Long Ago" has been
snapped. One by one they are pass
ing-those who linked the present to
the good old days before the war;
when this old Southland led all the
world in the development Of beau
tiful and a cultured manhood and
womanhood Pity is that this fne
old civilization is passing, and yet, no
doubt, there are those who will not
agree with this sentiment. Somehow
we have always felt that If it had
been left to our choosing we would
have selected that period OF the
worlds history for our pilgrimage
here, but it was not.
The death on Mrs. Laura P. Ewart
removes one of the oldest Of the, citl-
zens OF this community, and one who
had the privilege Of spending her
young womanhood in the good old
days Of which We have just spoken.
She was 50 years old, and up until a
short while ago retained in large
measure the beauty of person of her
young, womanhood. And always the
beauty and gentleness Of mind and
soul. Before her marriage to DR..
rav:d z. EwarS she was a Miss Gra-
ham.
Mrs. Ewart was the daughter of
James Graham who lived in the lower
section of the county and who in 1923
represented the county in the lesls-
lature. Her mother was Miss Mary
Fair, a sister OF the late Col. Simeon
Fair. She had one sister and two
brothers. The sister became the wife
of John Summer and died many years
ago. One brother William Graham
was graduate of West Point ano
afterwards superintendent OF the
Citadel Academy. The other brother,
Or. Dewitt Graham, was practicins
physician and for while practlced
his profession very successfully IN
Alabama but returned to Newberry
and died at the old home in the stone
hills.
DR.. Ewart was native Of Columbia,
and upon his marriage to Miss Gra-
ham he moved to Newberry where he
was practicing medicine when the
war broke out. He was appointed
surgeon of the Third South Carolina
regiment, which position he held for
some time, and then resigned and was
appointed assistant surgeon Confeo-
crate States navy. He contracted yel-
low fever and died on board the gun
boat Chicora in Charleston haTbor IN
September, 1864. Mrs. Ewart cont1n-
ued her residence in Newberry, and
by her gentle Christian character hao
MANY friends who were endeared to
her. She is survived by two children.
Judge Of Probate w. F. Ewart and
Mrs. Chas. A. Bowman.
She was a life long and consistant
member Of the AWeleigh Presbyterian
church and at the time of her death
the Oldest member of that congrega-
ton. The funeral services were held
from the church on Tuesday afternoon
at O'Clock conducted by her pastor
the Rev. E. D. Kerr, and interment IN
Rosemont
The pallbearers were:
J. n. McCaughrin, L. D. Smith, }.
L. Keitt, DR.. ~. E. Pelham. ". A.
iMcSwain, Alan Johnstone.