MRS. STUART JONES
Salisbury, May 25—A brief message received in Salisbury announced the death of Mrs. Stuart Jones at Laurenceville, Va., death being caused by appendicitis. Mrs. Jones was formerly Miss Nan Buford and was a daughter of Captain Andrew Buford, who for years was agent of the Southern Railway Company here.
MRS. ANNIE M. SAMPLE
Mrs. Annie Moore Sample, wife of Adrian M. Sample, formerly of Mecklenburg county, died Tuesday at her home in Fort Pierce, Fla., according to a message received by friends in the city. Interment will be in Fort Pierce Wednesday.
Mrs. Sample was a daughter of John W. Moore and the late Mrs. Margaret Gibbon Moore. She was reared at the Moore homestead in the Hopewell section of the county. She moved to Fort Pierce 30 years ago.
She leaves five children, four sons and one daughter, and two sisters. Three brothers also survive.
HENRY B. LEDYARD
Detroit, Mich., May 25—Henry B. Ledyard, chairman of the board of directors of the Michigan Central Railroad, died at his home here today. Mr. Ledyard was taken ill with heart trouble Friday night and later pneumonia developed. He was born in the American embassy at Paris in 1844, and had spent the greater part of his life in Detroit.
Three children, Henry and Hugh Ledyard and Baroness von Kettler, all of Detroit, survive.
SENATOR EMILE COMBES
Pons, France, May 25—Senator Emile Combes, French premier from 1902 to 1905, died here yesterday, aged 68 years.
While premier and minister of the interior, Mr. Combes devoted his energies to securing separation of the church and state, and under his guidance France in 1904 took the first definite steps toward this end. When the law separating the church and state finally was adopted, all the leaders of the radical party openly recognized M. Combes as the real originator of the movement.
DWIGHT PRESTON MONTAGUE
Chattanooga, Tenn., May 25—Dwight Preston Montague, retired capitalist and manufacturer, dropped dead in his office here this morning of apoplexy.
Mr. Montague was a native of Chester, Meigs county, Ohio. He was born July 20, 1853 and had lived in Chattanooga since 1875. During the active years of his life, he was president of the Roane Iron company, the Newoddy Coal company and identified with various other industries of this section. His home here was designed after an Italian castle and is one of the show places in Chattanooga. One of his daughters married County Nirino Rasponi, an Italian nobleman, and another married Major Richard Kimball of the United States army. Countess Rasponi is here now on her annual visit to the family.
RIGHT REV. MATTHEW HARKINS
Providence, R.I., May 25—The Right Rev. Matthew Harkins, Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Providence, died at his home here today. He was 75 years of age and had been bishop for 34 years.
From The Charlotte News, May 25, 1921
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