The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1921-06-16
MEMORIAL SERVICE
MRS. K. J.. CURETON


Bruce and Mrs. r. j. Mauldin were
the hostesses at the meeting Of the
Pickens Chapter U. D. C. last Friday
afternoon when the chapter held q
Smennrial service in honor of Mrs.
Kate Ladd Cureton who was a char
ter member. The chapter attended
the funeral in body at Grace church
on Monday afternoon, carrying bat
tie Scared Confederate flag. In
calling the meeting to order the presi-
dentsaid: "It is with sad heart
that make the formal announce
ment to the Chapter Of the passing
to the Great Beyond" of one Of our
charter members, Mrs. Catherine
Ladd Cureton, and ask you to
pause with me and let us pay trib-
ute to her memory.
"Happy their end
Who vanish down life's evening
stream
Placid as swans that drift in dream
Round the next river bend!
Happy long life with honor at its
close"
These words of James Russell Low
ell are descriptive Of our feelings as
we honor our beloved friend who has
answered the summons to come into
the presence of the King. She was
woman of charm and graciousness,
or strength and dignity, who sympa-
thlzed with the South and it's people.
protested against its wrongs, sang its
sorrows and its joys, and strove for
It's betterment. Her going has
Drought loss to US, but we are CRATE
ful for her life, her tender human
sympathy and work among us. We
trusted her and loved her, and to-
morrow we must go forward without
her help and counsel but with new
hope inspired by her precept and ex-
ample"
Mrs. j. j. Lewis followed with
beautiful sketch of the life of Mrs
'Cureton, dwelling especially upon
the last thirty-two years of it, which
were spent in Pickens-her career as
an educator and her labors of love
among US.
Mrs. C. E. Robinson also told Of
her life. Mrs. Cureton was the
daughter Of Geo. w. Ladd, of Winns-
boro. He was an artist of much
note, painting portraits and mina-
lures, and died when quite young.
Her mother was Catherine Stratton
before her marriage, and was one Of
the most distinguished educators that
South Carolina has produced She
founded the Mt. Zion Academy at
Winnsboro in lS4l, and this school
still survives III most flourishing
condition. At the beginning of the
war she gave up everything for the
cause Of the South, living for the
soldiers, and as president Of the Sol
dier's Aid Association throughout the
struggle, kept them supplied with the
necessities of life as far as possible.
Historic Winnsboro was in the line 81
Shermans mad march and his torch
destroyed Mrs. Ladd's home while
she was saving the Masonic jewels.
After the war she retired to her
plantation. She WAS :, great horti-
culturist, ani hay rardens and orch
ards proved most profitable and her
passionate love OF iiowers blended
the beautiful with the Useful
Small wonder then that with such
an inheritance Mrs. Cureton devei-
opcd the same charac terstic, and we
think of her, too, as an educator, al
ardent Southern patriot: hortcul-
turist and the grower Of most beau
tiful flowers which she loved and
shared with her friends.
Mrs. Mauldin read as peculiarly
appropriate to Mrs. Cureton:
'There is an oriental legend which
tells of poor man who lived beside
the road, just beyond the gate to a
wealthy city.
"In his life there was one great
passion-an intense love for roses.
With much toll and effort, he planted
and cultivated a beautiful garden of
roses on the waste land beside the
road.
"Aftcr the death Of the rose
lower, the desert sands drifted over
his neglected garden, and finally
:. they oblitcrated the entire city, so
that its memory even passed from