Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-05-18
DEATH Is EVER BUSY.

Tuesday for burial The interment
took place in Edge Hill Cemetery.
Kew Father John A. Curran, of Har-
per's Ferry, conducted the interment
rites of the Cathlic Church, of which
Mrs. Harris was devout member.
Six OF her nephews were pall-bearers.
These were w. Lacy Gibson, Z. b. Tim
oerlake, G. NJ, Charles E. and O. M.
harris, DR.. George A. Davis and |. N.
Bonham. In her e3d year, Mrs. Harris
was stricken with paralysis at her home
at Pembna about the middle of April.
the resulting illness causing her death
on Saturday last. Mrs. Harris was a
native of MartinSburg, she being a
daughter of Admiral Boarman of the
United States Navy. After her mar4
rage she came TO this county and for
years lived at the "Highlands." the
farm near the Bloomery, now owned by
Clarence L. Hilleary. In 1881 she
moved with her family to Pembina,
North Dakota, much to the regret OF
her neighborS and friends. But
throughout her long residence in the
Northwest she retained keen interest
/ in her old friends here through cor
respondence and the newspapers, read
ing every scrap of news about them
even UP to the end of her life. Mrs.
/ Harris leaves two sons, DR.. Charles
B. Harris and Eugene ]. Harris, both
residents of Pembina, and two daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Pauline Brennan, of Penn
bina, N. D., and Mrs. Edith Clement,
OF Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Her
grandchildren number 2l, and great
grand children 1O.-Advocate.
Miles w. Starr, retired farmer, died
last Sunday evening at the home of his
sister, Mrs. Scott Miller, at Gerards-
| town, Berkeley county, following a
distressing illness from cancer of the
| throat. Mr.. Starr, who was in his 10th
year, was native of Huntington coun-
ty, Pa, but came to this section some
! sixty years ago. He owned an oc-
cupied farm north Of Shepherdstown,
near Scrabble, and was a most indus
trious and thrifty man. He lived an
exemplary life, and filled a useful po-
Siton In the community. He retired
from active work about two years ago
and went to Gerardstown to make his
home with his sister He is survived
by one daughter, Mrs. H. S. Pitzcr, of
Shepherdstown, sister, Mrs Miller,
and two half brothers, 10y and AiliA
son Hauger, of Berkeley county. The
funeral service was held Wednesday
morning at the home OF his daughter
conducted by Elder II. n. Lefferts, of
Leesburg, Va, and the body was in
TERED in Elmwood Cemetery.
John S. League, former jeweler of
Martinsburg and native of Jefferson
county, died last Saturday evening at
Cassaway, w. Va, where he had made
his home for fifteen years. Death waa
due to an attack Of acute indigestion.
Mr.. League was about forty years Of
age and was born near Middleway,
When very young the family moved to
Martinsburg and some time later he
engaged in business in that place
Leaving there, he went to Gassaway,
where he owned jewelry store at the
time of his death. He is survived by
his widow, formerly Miss Grace VOL
ford, and one daughter, Mrs. Don Gun
ningham His mother, Mrs. Ida f.
League, of Gassaway, also survives,
The remains were brought to Martins
burg for burial, and on Tuesday were
inferred in Norborne Cemetery.
After an illness of one week, George
E. Anders, aged l3 years, youngest
son of Albert Anders, died at his home
on the Hooff farm, four miles west Of
Charles Town, Friday morning. The
little fellows illness was unusual. A
week before he died he complained of
a pain in his knee. The pain extended
rapidly. In a day or two he suffered
with pain in his back and shoulder
that rendered him helpless. Append-
citis then manifested itself in a violent
attack, its progress being so rapid that
an operation was deemed useless as
means of saving his life. His father,
survives, with four brothers and two
sisters.-Advocate.
William Henry Harrison Hawn,
native of Shepherdstown, died at the
home Of his daughter, Mrs. Shafer, in
Baltimore, on May 5th, aged 81 years.
He was an uncle OF Mrs, VIM. ].
Foutz north Of town, and had other
relatives in this neighborhood whom
he occasionally visited. He was born
here November 16, 1910, but had lived
in Baltimore for many years. He was
an exemplary and upright man, and
is favorably remembered by those who
knew him.
DR.. M. Virginia McCune Rosa, a
well-known woman physician Of Mar
tinSDurg, operating q nOSpHai III lild'
city known as the Shenandoah Valley
Sanitarium, died suddenly last Sun
day after an illness of only few hours
from heart trouble. She was native
of Pennsylvania and was 63 years old.
She studied medicine, after course
in nursing, and began to practice IN
Martinsburg in 1897. She is survived
by her husband, DR.. Kismet Rosa.
Mrs. Mary Francis Benner, widow OF
Geo w. Benner, died last Sunday in
Martinsburg, aged 63 years. The de-
ceased was a native Of Jefferson coun-