The Georgetown Times Georgetown, Ky.
Wed. May 23, 1928
Deaths, Cantrill
Mrs. Mary Cecil Cantrill, widow of Judge James S. Cantrill, who was at one time, lieutenant governor of Kentucky, died Saturday morning at 7:30 o,clock at Baltimore, Md., where she had been as invalid for three years.
Funeral services were held at Georgetown Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the Georgetown cemetery chapel, the body arriving in Lexington at noon Monday over the C.and O. railway. They were met by Ashurst & Son and brought to Georgetown. Cecil E. Cantrill, of Lexington, son of Mrs. Cantrill, has gone to Baltimore to accompany the body back to Kentucky.
Dr.I.M. Boswell was the officiating minister and the pallbearers were R.B. Franklin, Dr. J.C. Carrick, N.A. Quilling, W.J. Askew, R.C. Davis, H.C. Ford, and Nathan Elliott.
Mrs. Cantrill had been an invalid since suffering a stroke three years ago. Before that that time she live at Georgetown. During her illness she suffered a number of strokes, the last a few days ago causing her death.
She was born at Monticello, Wayne County, Ky. and spent her early girlhood in Boyle county, near Danville. She obtained the greater part of her education at Old Daughter's College, Harrodsburg. In 1893 she was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison as one of the eight-members at large of the board of lady managers of the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. Later she was appointed to represent Kentucky at the Nashville Exposition in 1898.
Mrs. Cantrill was one of the most prominent and highly educated and intellectual women of her generation and was particularly interested in educational and patriotic work. She was a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy.
Besides her son, Mrs. Cantrill is survived by a brother, C.P. Cecil, of Danville; a sister, Mrs. Sarah Cecil, of Georgetown, and two grandchildren, Cecil E. Cantrill, Jr., and Margaret Shelby Cantrill, James Campbell Cantrill, nominee for governor of Kentucky, who died before an election was held, was her stepson.
Wed. May 23, 1928
Deaths, Cantrill
Mrs. Mary Cecil Cantrill, widow of Judge James S. Cantrill, who was at one time, lieutenant governor of Kentucky, died Saturday morning at 7:30 o,clock at Baltimore, Md., where she had been as invalid for three years.
Funeral services were held at Georgetown Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the Georgetown cemetery chapel, the body arriving in Lexington at noon Monday over the C.and O. railway. They were met by Ashurst & Son and brought to Georgetown. Cecil E. Cantrill, of Lexington, son of Mrs. Cantrill, has gone to Baltimore to accompany the body back to Kentucky.
Dr.I.M. Boswell was the officiating minister and the pallbearers were R.B. Franklin, Dr. J.C. Carrick, N.A. Quilling, W.J. Askew, R.C. Davis, H.C. Ford, and Nathan Elliott.
Mrs. Cantrill had been an invalid since suffering a stroke three years ago. Before that that time she live at Georgetown. During her illness she suffered a number of strokes, the last a few days ago causing her death.
She was born at Monticello, Wayne County, Ky. and spent her early girlhood in Boyle county, near Danville. She obtained the greater part of her education at Old Daughter's College, Harrodsburg. In 1893 she was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison as one of the eight-members at large of the board of lady managers of the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. Later she was appointed to represent Kentucky at the Nashville Exposition in 1898.
Mrs. Cantrill was one of the most prominent and highly educated and intellectual women of her generation and was particularly interested in educational and patriotic work. She was a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy.
Besides her son, Mrs. Cantrill is survived by a brother, C.P. Cecil, of Danville; a sister, Mrs. Sarah Cecil, of Georgetown, and two grandchildren, Cecil E. Cantrill, Jr., and Margaret Shelby Cantrill, James Campbell Cantrill, nominee for governor of Kentucky, who died before an election was held, was her stepson.
The Georgetown Times Georgetown, Ky.
Wed. May 23, 1928
Deaths, Cantrill
Mrs. Mary Cecil Cantrill, widow of Judge James S. Cantrill, who was at one time, lieutenant governor of Kentucky, died Saturday morning at 7:30 o,clock at Baltimore, Md., where she had been as invalid for three years.
Funeral services were held at Georgetown Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the Georgetown cemetery chapel, the body arriving in Lexington at noon Monday over the C.and O. railway. They were met by Ashurst & Son and brought to Georgetown. Cecil E. Cantrill, of Lexington, son of Mrs. Cantrill, has gone to Baltimore to accompany the body back to Kentucky.
Dr.I.M. Boswell was the officiating minister and the pallbearers were R.B. Franklin, Dr. J.C. Carrick, N.A. Quilling, W.J. Askew, R.C. Davis, H.C. Ford, and Nathan Elliott.
Mrs. Cantrill had been an invalid since suffering a stroke three years ago. Before that that time she live at Georgetown. During her illness she suffered a number of strokes, the last a few days ago causing her death.
She was born at Monticello, Wayne County, Ky. and spent her early girlhood in Boyle county, near Danville. She obtained the greater part of her education at Old Daughter's College, Harrodsburg. In 1893 she was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison as one of the eight-members at large of the board of lady managers of the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. Later she was appointed to represent Kentucky at the Nashville Exposition in 1898.
Mrs. Cantrill was one of the most prominent and highly educated and intellectual women of her generation and was particularly interested in educational and patriotic work. She was a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy.
Besides her son, Mrs. Cantrill is survived by a brother, C.P. Cecil, of Danville; a sister, Mrs. Sarah Cecil, of Georgetown, and two grandchildren, Cecil E. Cantrill, Jr., and Margaret Shelby Cantrill, James Campbell Cantrill, nominee for governor of Kentucky, who died before an election was held, was her stepson.
Wed. May 23, 1928
Deaths, Cantrill
Mrs. Mary Cecil Cantrill, widow of Judge James S. Cantrill, who was at one time, lieutenant governor of Kentucky, died Saturday morning at 7:30 o,clock at Baltimore, Md., where she had been as invalid for three years.
Funeral services were held at Georgetown Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the Georgetown cemetery chapel, the body arriving in Lexington at noon Monday over the C.and O. railway. They were met by Ashurst & Son and brought to Georgetown. Cecil E. Cantrill, of Lexington, son of Mrs. Cantrill, has gone to Baltimore to accompany the body back to Kentucky.
Dr.I.M. Boswell was the officiating minister and the pallbearers were R.B. Franklin, Dr. J.C. Carrick, N.A. Quilling, W.J. Askew, R.C. Davis, H.C. Ford, and Nathan Elliott.
Mrs. Cantrill had been an invalid since suffering a stroke three years ago. Before that that time she live at Georgetown. During her illness she suffered a number of strokes, the last a few days ago causing her death.
She was born at Monticello, Wayne County, Ky. and spent her early girlhood in Boyle county, near Danville. She obtained the greater part of her education at Old Daughter's College, Harrodsburg. In 1893 she was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison as one of the eight-members at large of the board of lady managers of the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. Later she was appointed to represent Kentucky at the Nashville Exposition in 1898.
Mrs. Cantrill was one of the most prominent and highly educated and intellectual women of her generation and was particularly interested in educational and patriotic work. She was a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy.
Besides her son, Mrs. Cantrill is survived by a brother, C.P. Cecil, of Danville; a sister, Mrs. Sarah Cecil, of Georgetown, and two grandchildren, Cecil E. Cantrill, Jr., and Margaret Shelby Cantrill, James Campbell Cantrill, nominee for governor of Kentucky, who died before an election was held, was her stepson.
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