Smyrna times., 1918-04-24
DEATH RECORD OF THE WEEK
Miss Henrietta briggs, Sister of Mrs.
Mary E.Turner OF Smyrna, and Long
a Missionary to Mexico. Dead

uena, OallIOrnla, Monday night at |
10 o'clock, following a collapse
incident to general debility.
Mrs. Turner, her sister, was sum-
moned from Smyrna last week and
arrived shortly before her death. The
sad intelligence of her death was re-
ceived in Smyrna with much regret.
When her parents moved from New
England to the farm, the briggs Farm.
on the State road, a short distance
south of Smyrna. the deceased came
with them but shortly moved to
Mexico where she spent twenty years
or more doing missionary and educa-
tiOnal work in the Mary Josephine
Hooper School, an Episcopal school at
Mexico City. She was a sister of the
late DR.. briggs, a medical missionary
who spent much of his life with and
died among the Eskimos at Point Hope,
Alaska. Like that brother, Miss
briggs had the wanderlust in her
blood, but, unlike him, her wanderings
carried her toward the Equator rather
than toward the Pole. Being devout
Episcopalian and interested particu-
larly in the educational side of the
church's mission work, she went TO
the City of Mexico and gave much
valuable aid in running the Episcopal
school for Mexican children. She was
in Mexico when Madero overthrow
President POrfirio Diaz and assumed
the reins of government. She also
passed through the troublous times
that followed that event. Then came
the uprising against MaderO. 1t was
led by Felix Diax and General Huerta.
Following the murder Of Madero and
his Leading adherents, the attitude of
the MeXicans towards Americans be
came so menacing that Miss briggs,
in common with many other Americans,
decided to get out. Her escape to
the coast was featured by the singular
circumstance that the automobile in
which she rode out of the Mexican
capital was the one in which Madero
had been murdered. The bullet holes
still were in it. They were pointed
out to her by the driver, who seemed
to glory in the fact that his machine
had play ed such sinister part in a
Mexican national tragedy. Follow
ing her escape from Mexico Miss
briggs came to Smyrna for an ex-
tended stay with her sister. Mrs.
Turner. Subsequently after the briggs
farm was sold she went out to Pasa-
dena, where she has since been max :
/ ing her residence. Her remains will
( be brought to Smyrna for interment
Mrs. Smack, Aged 90. Dies at Camden
In the death of Mrs. Mary Smack,
aged 80 years, of Camden, Monday, is
removed a most remarkable character.
Mrs. Smack was the mother of Mrs.
Stewart. wife of the Rev. w. F.
Stewart, Baptist clergyman, of
Camden. She came to Delaware from
Ohio in 1911. She leaves five daugh-
tiers, all of whom have married clergy
men of different faiths. One daughter
lives in Florida; another in Mexico,
another in Indiana, another, the wife
of the Rev. D. F. McFaul, pastor Of
the M. E. Church at Hockessin, Del.
Mrs. W. F. Stewart, Camden. One
of the daughters, who lost her hus
band, a minister, married a seconC
time, the second husband being {
minister. Mrs. Smack was blind fol
several years. She will be buried il
Odd Fellows cemetery, Camden.
Mrs. Minnie Ennis Loses Her Father
Lewis Gieser, aged sc. who came
from Whalleyville, Md, recently tt
make his home with his daughter
Mrs. Minnie Ennis on West Commerce
street, died at seven o'clock last even
ing after a lingering illness. H
leaves two daughters and one son a
follows: Mrs. Minnie Ennis. Smyrna
Mrs. H. c. Maloney, of Denver
Colorado and DR.. Lewis Gieser o
Canada. Funeral will take plac
from the residence of Mrs. Ennis a
10 o'clock Friday morning, intermen
, at Dover.
7. .Fouracre, Middletown, Loses So
Thomas S. Fouracre, Jr., aged
years, son of Levy Court Commissions
Thomas S. Fouracre, editor of tn
Middletown Transcript, and Mrs
Fouracre, of Middletown, died Sunda
night in Philadelphia hospital. Th
child had been i'll but a few day
of a painful abscess of the stomac
and was taken to Philadelphia Satur
day for surgical treatment.
; j. Frank Cavender, of New Mexico
Mr.. ]. Frank Lavender, son {
Joseph l.. Cavender and the lat