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MOTHER IN ISRAELREVNovelWrit ideath of an estimableThlt;WOMAN poweThe Sorrowing Relatives andminispretcassigiencel-ivorsFriends bol(ieof thearoui]uponhis mMrs. Esther J. Sampson, the the a widow of the late Joseph Samp- ho wason, and daughter of Co- ,ho«!hen, 'of Charleston, died at her f^i, plantation, at Weymouth, on scrvk Wednesday last, at 12.45 P. M. in So For nearly fifty years the de- oli11 ceased had been prominently identified with the social life ambii and h’story of this community; to a coming to Georgetown in the Mood first flush of a regal woman- m*(: hood, her rare graces of mind and person attracted to her that tions large circle of friends and ad- wi mirers whose affections clung »an« to her to the day of her death.Always the mistress of an el egant home, her hospitality was can vunbounded, and whether lavish- younjed on friend or dispensed to the il- 1 stranger, an hour spent around ^}r™‘ her hearth was an event to be remembered. At Georgetown, me, Weymouth or Brooksvil.'e, her onlt;- ? home was a favorite social Mec- al ;il ca, where old and young de- ll'.\tr lighted to pay pilgrimage. g°.All of these, howevei, played no c but a minor part in her exist- mind ence; with sympathetic heart and generous bosom, this cultivated and gifted woman al- i'^no ways found ample time to de- natu vote to the greater humanities oot which environed her. Whether 8ucli in the chamber of the afflicted tjon. friend, or the cot of the lowly mt,ej | slave, Jier presence brought of c solace and sunshine to the one and unmeasured charity to the °,thei other. !!,ou'. aboudignity, this lovely daughter of has iIsrael was gathered to her fath- crc»lt; ers last Wednesday; the tears P01“ and immortelles of an entire community attesting its grief at o,iUeits 1088. immredi as aAfter a life full of honor andI he interment took place at P'ou the Jewish cemetery. er*The burial services were readfromlt; i. d iu.iaby Rabbi Elsas, of Charleston, and was very impressive and fore solemn. to/ft -__— A. i.1 __
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Georgetown Semi Weekly Times
Georgetown, South Carolina, US
Sat, Sep 25, 1897
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