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It : = 'PASSED BEYOND! i«eMRS. R. E. LYON DIES IN NEW YORK LAST NIGHT.IThe Family, Summoned to Her Hedrdde •Several Days Ago. Were With Her fkin the I-ast Hours.3Irs. K E. Lyon, whose death wa^ re- ^ ported here Saturday, and whose life since that time has hung in the balances, passed away yesterday evening at 7 o'clock in New York, where she had gone for treatment several weeks back, and whither the family were summoned to her bedside some days ago.For many months Mrs. Lyon has been in bad health and numberless trips have been planned for her benefit. It was hoped that an ocean voyage and the di version of foreign travel would prove beneficial, and it was in this hope that Ithe family made the journey to Europe last summer and lingered amid the sights and scenes of distant lands. From time to time the skill of eminent physicians f has been sought, and every means known ! c to man resorted to in order to check the , 1 disease which had gotten such a cruel I hold upon her.Hut science proved powerless, for al-1 * though not confined to her room and t able to mingle in society, her friends c could not fail to recognize the fact that T she was not long for earth, and loved ' k her all the more tenderly for this sad r and ever present knowledge While her death was directly attributable to pneu monia, consumption had already done i18 fatal work and made her an easy victim to the disease which finally carried her off.Mrs. Lyon—nee Mary Duke—was the only daughter of Mr. Washington Duke, and a sister of Messrs B L and U N Duke, of this city, and J. H Duke, of New York. She was about M years of age, and had long been a consistent member of the Methodist church to which she early united h-rselfBesides her father and brother* » hn* band and four childo-n— Bennie, Wamh . George and Buchanan Lvou survive hlt;*«, who, in this dark hour, have ih* (!••» pe»t sympathy of the p- oplc of ilrs city who. with them, will drop a tear upon her graveThe remains will arrive tlt;» morrow on the noon train, and the funeral will take place Sunday from Main street Methodist church.
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The Durham Daily Globe
Durham, North Carolina, US
Fri, Apr 07, 1893
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