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The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky). Wednesday, March 22, 1911. Page 7.
Pioneer Lexington Woman Expires as Music Plays -- Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bruce Kissed by Gen. Lafayette -- Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bruce, widow of W. W. Bruce, one of the oldest and most prominent women of Lexington, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lilla Jacobs, after an illness of nearly four months. Mrs. Bruce was before her marriage Miss Elizabeth Turner Colesbury, and was born at Wilmington, Del., December 4, 1821, and had reached the advanced age of 89 years 3 months and 16 days. Her ancestors were among the colony of Swedes who settled the State of Delaware, and at the old church where they worshipped in the pioneer days they all lie buried.
On March 12, 1840, at Philadelphia, she was married to William Wallace Bruce of Lexington, and began her married life at the old homestead on North Limestone which has been in the family seventy years. Ten children were born to them of whom five survive: Mrs. Mary Carrier, Mrs. Margaret Saunders, Mrs. Lilla Jacobs and Mrs. Fanny Loughridge, all of Lexington, and Mrs. Alice Chew, of Washington City.
Her husband was one of the wealthiest citizens of Lexington, and during her long life Mrs. Bruce was intimately associated with the most prominent people of the city. She has enjoyed an acquaintance with many of the most distinguished people of the country, among who is President Taft, and one of her most cherished recollections was of having been kissed by Marquis de Lafayette, at Philadelphia, when she was a little girl only 5 years old.
Mrs. Bruce was an active worker in the cause of charity, and was president of the Children's Home Board of Managers. For several months she and her friends had been aware that death might come at any time.
A few minutes before she died she asked that a graphophone be set to play in turn "I Dreampt That I Dwelt In Marble Halls:, "The You'll Remember Me" and "Silent Night", and when the last notes of this melody had died away it was found that she had peacefully expired.
The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at Christ Church Cathedral, to be followed by interment in the Lexington Cemetery.
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky). Wednesday, March 22, 1911. Page 7.
Pioneer Lexington Woman Expires as Music Plays -- Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bruce Kissed by Gen. Lafayette -- Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bruce, widow of W. W. Bruce, one of the oldest and most prominent women of Lexington, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lilla Jacobs, after an illness of nearly four months. Mrs. Bruce was before her marriage Miss Elizabeth Turner Colesbury, and was born at Wilmington, Del., December 4, 1821, and had reached the advanced age of 89 years 3 months and 16 days. Her ancestors were among the colony of Swedes who settled the State of Delaware, and at the old church where they worshipped in the pioneer days they all lie buried.
On March 12, 1840, at Philadelphia, she was married to William Wallace Bruce of Lexington, and began her married life at the old homestead on North Limestone which has been in the family seventy years. Ten children were born to them of whom five survive: Mrs. Mary Carrier, Mrs. Margaret Saunders, Mrs. Lilla Jacobs and Mrs. Fanny Loughridge, all of Lexington, and Mrs. Alice Chew, of Washington City.
Her husband was one of the wealthiest citizens of Lexington, and during her long life Mrs. Bruce was intimately associated with the most prominent people of the city. She has enjoyed an acquaintance with many of the most distinguished people of the country, among who is President Taft, and one of her most cherished recollections was of having been kissed by Marquis de Lafayette, at Philadelphia, when she was a little girl only 5 years old.
Mrs. Bruce was an active worker in the cause of charity, and was president of the Children's Home Board of Managers. For several months she and her friends had been aware that death might come at any time.
A few minutes before she died she asked that a graphophone be set to play in turn "I Dreampt That I Dwelt In Marble Halls:, "The You'll Remember Me" and "Silent Night", and when the last notes of this melody had died away it was found that she had peacefully expired.
The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at Christ Church Cathedral, to be followed by interment in the Lexington Cemetery.
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The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky). Wednesday, March 22, 1911. Page 7.
Pioneer Lexington Woman Expires as Music Plays -- Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bruce Kissed by Gen. Lafayette -- Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bruce, widow of W. W. Bruce, one of the oldest and most prominent women of Lexington, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lilla Jacobs, after an illness of nearly four months. Mrs. Bruce was before her marriage Miss Elizabeth Turner Colesbury, and was born at Wilmington, Del., December 4, 1821, and had reached the advanced age of 89 years 3 months and 16 days. Her ancestors were among the colony of Swedes who settled the State of Delaware, and at the old church where they worshipped in the pioneer days they all lie buried.
On March 12, 1840, at Philadelphia, she was married to William Wallace Bruce of Lexington, and began her married life at the old homestead on North Limestone which has been in the family seventy years. Ten children were born to them of whom five survive: Mrs. Mary Carrier, Mrs. Margaret Saunders, Mrs. Lilla Jacobs and Mrs. Fanny Loughridge, all of Lexington, and Mrs. Alice Chew, of Washington City.
Her husband was one of the wealthiest citizens of Lexington, and during her long life Mrs. Bruce was intimately associated with the most prominent people of the city. She has enjoyed an acquaintance with many of the most distinguished people of the country, among who is President Taft, and one of her most cherished recollections was of having been kissed by Marquis de Lafayette, at Philadelphia, when she was a little girl only 5 years old.
Mrs. Bruce was an active worker in the cause of charity, and was president of the Children's Home Board of Managers. For several months she and her friends had been aware that death might come at any time.
A few minutes before she died she asked that a graphophone be set to play in turn "I Dreampt That I Dwelt In Marble Halls:, "The You'll Remember Me" and "Silent Night", and when the last notes of this melody had died away it was found that she had peacefully expired.
The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at Christ Church Cathedral, to be followed by interment in the Lexington Cemetery.
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky). Wednesday, March 22, 1911. Page 7.
Pioneer Lexington Woman Expires as Music Plays -- Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bruce Kissed by Gen. Lafayette -- Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bruce, widow of W. W. Bruce, one of the oldest and most prominent women of Lexington, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lilla Jacobs, after an illness of nearly four months. Mrs. Bruce was before her marriage Miss Elizabeth Turner Colesbury, and was born at Wilmington, Del., December 4, 1821, and had reached the advanced age of 89 years 3 months and 16 days. Her ancestors were among the colony of Swedes who settled the State of Delaware, and at the old church where they worshipped in the pioneer days they all lie buried.
On March 12, 1840, at Philadelphia, she was married to William Wallace Bruce of Lexington, and began her married life at the old homestead on North Limestone which has been in the family seventy years. Ten children were born to them of whom five survive: Mrs. Mary Carrier, Mrs. Margaret Saunders, Mrs. Lilla Jacobs and Mrs. Fanny Loughridge, all of Lexington, and Mrs. Alice Chew, of Washington City.
Her husband was one of the wealthiest citizens of Lexington, and during her long life Mrs. Bruce was intimately associated with the most prominent people of the city. She has enjoyed an acquaintance with many of the most distinguished people of the country, among who is President Taft, and one of her most cherished recollections was of having been kissed by Marquis de Lafayette, at Philadelphia, when she was a little girl only 5 years old.
Mrs. Bruce was an active worker in the cause of charity, and was president of the Children's Home Board of Managers. For several months she and her friends had been aware that death might come at any time.
A few minutes before she died she asked that a graphophone be set to play in turn "I Dreampt That I Dwelt In Marble Halls:, "The You'll Remember Me" and "Silent Night", and when the last notes of this melody had died away it was found that she had peacefully expired.
The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at Christ Church Cathedral, to be followed by interment in the Lexington Cemetery.
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