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Kansas Academy of Science. 



MARY BURGESS SAVAGE -1834-1912. 



THE news that "Grrandma Savage," "Aunt Mary," had passed 

 away on Tuesday morning, February 7, 1912, meant for a 

 large circle of the older residents of Lawrence the present extinc- 

 tion of a kindly light which has shown for them a great many years. 

 Mary Williston Burgess was born in Stirling, Scotland, March 

 5, 1834, within sight of the field of Bannockburn and the monu- 

 ment to William Wallace. At the age of fifteen she came with her 



MARY BURGESS SAVAGE. 



parents to New York, then to Massachusetts, whence later they re- 

 moved to Lawrence with her husband, the late Joseph Savage, here 

 to take charge of his home and four motherless children, the 

 youngest an infant. The only one of these surviving her is Mrs. 

 Susan D. Alford. Mr. Savage died in 1891. Two brothers and a 

 sister survive Mrs. Savage, also her adopted daughter, Margaret 

 Comrie. 



Mrs. Savage was an ideal companion to her husband, as well as 

 an ideal mother. She shared Mr. Savage's fondness for the study 

 of natural history, and accompanied him on many of his collecting 



