tesy enabled her to achieve the most remark- 

 able results. During the term of years when 

 she was president of the North Carolina So- 

 ciety of Colonial Dames of America she pur- 

 sued a policy which attracted the attention of 

 the foremost national members and won for 

 the society an enviable reputation. Possess- 

 ing a very keen mind and one capable of dis- 

 cerning ability in others, she encouraged all 

 mental effort and set in operation valuable 

 research work which has been of the greatest 

 benefit to the State at large. 



In conversation she was most versatile. 

 One found intellectual people turning natu- 

 rally to her, and her wide and varied experi- 

 ence gave an authority to her opinion on all 

 subjects. 



Her loyalty to her family and her devotion 

 to each member of it was as beautiful as it 

 was intense. She held them together by her 

 very love for them and her unstinted appre- 

 ciation. 



Her personal pleasures were few, or, to be 

 more exact, she found her pleasure in making 

 others happy. Her charity was so broad that 

 she found good in every one and realized the 

 difficulties and temptations of every soul. 

 Her character possessed in fact a symmetry 

 that one could not fail to perceive and appre- 

 ciate. Her love of justice and sincerity was 

 as pronounced as her charity and generosity, 

 and to the day of her death she clung fast to 



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