I~. DEATH OF A FOR!2\iERFAIRFiELD WOMAN:

. 4/4J1-lct ~Mrs. Hattie 'McConnel Lever, GO"

widow of the late E. J. Lever, Sr., idied at her ~'esidence in the Blythe- Iwood section of Richland County jTuesday morning at 5 o'clock, Sept. I

8th. She had been a resident of this Isection for the past 35 years. Mrs.Lever was a daughter of the late \Chas. B: Blair of the Dawkin section.'of Fairfield County. She was a mem-Ii ber of Oak Grove Methodist churchIand was very active in her work. I'\She will be sorely missed in her com- ,~unity. I

Funeral servic.es were held fro inthe Oak Grove church at 11 o'clock[Wednesday conducted by her pastor, 1the Rev. J. H. Montgomery; assistedby two former pastors, Rev. Good-win, of Wagner, S. C., and Rev.Hanks, of College Place. "

Mrs. Lever is survived by one "on,( E. J. Lever, Jr., and one daughter,

(Sadie) now Mrs. J. C. Capps, bothof Blythewood, also six step-children,Mrs. N. C. Blair, Mrs. J.- O. Riley,Mrs. J .. J. Ballentine and Mrs. E. A.'Riley, all of Blythewdod, Mr!? Emo- 1gene Bouknight, of Ballentine, S. IC.; ,and S. D. Lever; of Columbia. Mrs ..Lever: is survived by one sister, Mrs.:W. R.Aiken, ofWinnsboro, S. C, one:grand child, Hazel Capps, and anum-ber Qf step grand-children, nephewsand nieces.

Active pallbearers were selectedAom her nephews,· C. B. Broome, L.A.DeHihns, R.: C. Andrews, C. A.Andrew'S, Frank Andrews ~nd HughB. Aiken. Honorary were: H. J. Lev-er, W. T. Lever, J. A. Sherrill, J. D.Graddick, G. R. Beckham. and J .. S.;Lever., Her high esteem arid love wasshown by the beautiful floral triobutes and the unusual large funeralattendance.

DEATH OF MISS MAE LOWE

News was re;~;e'i/!e;! Wednes-day of last week of the death at ahospital in Sanford, N. C., vf MissMae Lowe,' popular arid efficientteacher of the Lebanon school ofFairfield county.

Miss Lowe had taught this schoolf<Gr the past six years and had en-deared herself to all there as well.as many in the town of Winnsboro.'she was not able to return to her.school duties after the Christmasholidays on account of illness.

Funeral services were held at Ta-tum Thursday. She is survived by-one sister and several neices and.nephews.

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Columbia, Oct. 12.-Ralph W. Mc-Cracken, 28, state highway patrol-man, was killed today near Chesterwhen, his motorcycle struck an auto-mobile. "

Officials of the state highway de-partment were informed a mail car-rier's automobile was parked on theleft side of the highway and, that as \ .the patrolman came over the crest ofthe hill he did not have time to avoidhitting it. J

The patrolman, whose home was in IBranchville, was en route to Colum-lbia to join a detail which will attend,the celebration in Yorkstown, Va., Ithis week.

Judge Shelton: .mail carrier fr~m IShelton, was driving the automobile 'I

that o.pllided with McCracken's ma-chine. The accident occurred in Fair- Ifield c~unty, eight miles from car-I',lisle.

DEATH CLAIlMS MRS. RODERICKMACDONALD

l q7' 'Columbia, Feb. 25.LMrs. Roderick

Macdonald, wife of Dr. Roderick Mac-donald, prominent member of themedical staff of the State hospital,died at her home on the hospital cam-pus at 6:10 Tuesday morning follow-ing an illness of some days withpneumonia.

Before marriage, Mrs. Macdonaldwas Miss Jean Cunningham, born inthe province of N~w Brunswick, Can-ada. She lived for some years atToronto, and then moved in 1918 toI Charleston where she was marriedto Doctor Macdonald.

Besides her husband, she is sur-vived by one son, Roderick Macdon-

Iald, Jr., age four, and two sisters,Mrs. R. D. Bacot of Charleston, and

I Mrs. John McQuin of N~w ,Brun.s-wick, Canada. The. son IS also IIIwith pneumonia but' showed muchimprovement yesterday.

Previous to coming to Columbia in1927 Doctor Macdonald practicedmedicine in Winnsboro and Charles-ton and at Winnsboro he was coun-ty health officer. Mrs. Macdonaldwas a woman of, many attractive per-sonal characteristics and her pleasingpersonality made her numerousfriends.

Funeral services were held fromthe First Presbyterian church at10:30 Wednesday morning with theRev. J. W. Jackson, D. -D., pastor,the Rev. John McEachern, assistantpastor, and the Rev. Lewis N. Taylor,rector of the Church of the GoodShepherd, in charg~. Interment wasin Concord Presbyterian churchyard,in Fairfield county, the church ofDoctor Macdonald's earlier years.

Serving as active pallbearers were:Dr. C. T. Bullock, Dr. E. W. Long,.Dr. Coyt Ham, Dr. J. E. Boone, Dr.G. R. Westrope, Dr. C. J. Milling,Dr. H. A. McElroy, Dr. Roy G. Smarr,Dr. E. L. Horger, Dr.-T. D. Dotterer,Dr. W. P. Beckham and Dr G. B. Ca -rigan.

Honorary pallbearers were: Dr.T. A. Pitts, Dr. H. Grady Callison,Dr. O. B. Mayer, Dr. C. F. Williams,Dr. Samuel Lindsay, Dr. F. M. Dur-ham, Dr. John' H. Cathcart, Dr. J.E. Douglas, Sr., Dr. John Buchanan,Jr., Dr. C. S. McCants, E. M. Ken-nedy, K.R. McMaster; Ernest Glad-den, Morris Lyles, P. M. Dees andA. M. Williams.

In the death of Mrs. Macdonald;'Columbia loses a noble woman. De-voted to her home and her church,charming, intelligent, kind and gra-cious, she had made many friendshere who will be grieved to learn ofher death; She was active in women'swork at the First Presbyterianchurch, and the members of her cir-cle, and others who had the- privilege

I of knowing her were devoted to her.

DEATH OF MR. F. A. NEIL'9'JAI /

Funeral services for F. A. Neil,84, Confederate veteran and wellknown citizen of Fairfield county,who died Friday morning, Mar. 1;1,were conducted at Mt. Olivet Pres-byterian church near Winnsboro Sat-urday afternoon at 3 o'clock. His pas-tor, the Rev. G. G. Mayes, assistedby Rev. Oliver Johnson and the Rev.Mr. Franklin, officiated at the ser-vices. d . c'rt1C/, I i :3 I

'Mr. Neil, who was born April 2~,1847, was one of the oldest ar.1 mosthighly respected citizens of his coun-ty.) He was a prominent farm"er ofthe Wateree section, his plantationhaving been owned by the Neils for.three generations. .I He was for 60 years an eld~r andchoir reader of the Mt. Olivet. church,and for many years a member of theMasonic temple of Winnsboro.! ..,. 0' ••••• ox.•, ox •••••XG1X"•.C .•..•.11,

and three grandchildren.

EATH OF MR. WADE H. ~\,IACFIE I,.. ~ /.1.:;>/Hj.J / I

Mr. Wade Hampton Macfie, 63,1one of the most prominent citizen's'of Fairfield county, died at his' resi-."dence here at 1 o'clock Wednesday Imorning following an illness of sev-eral months. A heart attack was thedirect cause of his death.

Mr. Macfie was the son of Capt.James Pringle Macfie and Agnes RiceMacfie and had lived in Fairfieldcounty during his entire life. Hisfather commanded a cavalry company Iin the Hampton Legion and was a

Ipersonal friend of General . Wade

IHampton for whom Wade HamptonMacfie was named.I As a lad of 1Q years, Mr. Macfie'rode with his father and GeneralHampton in the Red Shirts paradethrough the streets of Columbia in11876. He was a splendid horsemanI as a boy and the manner in whichhe rode with the Red Shirts createdno little attention throughout thestate.

Mr. Macfie was prominently iden-tified with church, civic and socialactivities of his county. He was con-sidered a leader in his communityand was for many years an elder inthe Associate Reformed Presbyterianchurch at Winnsboro.

He is survived by his widow, whobefore her marriage was Emelyn Ros-borough of Fairfield County; one 150nand three daughters, Mrs. DaveCrawford, Mrs. Thomas W. Ruff, Jr.,<and Miss Beck Macfie of Winnsboro,Wade H. Macfie, Jr., of Brooklyn, N.Y.; one sister, Mrs. Agnes Anderson,of Columbia; three brothers, Sheriff.James Macfie and R. R. Macfie, ofWinnsboro, and S. R. Macfie, of Bre-

Ivard, N. C. ,Mr. ,M'a:cfiewas related to the Mc-

Masters, Andersons and McGregors,prominent Columbia families,\ Funeral services were neld at theWinnsboro Associated ReformedPresbyterian church Wednesday af-ternoon. The Rev. Oliver Johnson,'pastor, officiated, assist~d by Rev. ~>!G. Mayes. Interment was in the A.IRoo P. churchyard.

Pallbearers were: Active-S. R.McM3ster, Ernest Crawford, A. E.Davis, J. S. Ketchin, T. K. McDonald,W. A. Robinson. Honorary-e-T. W.Brice, J. L. Brice, J. B. Doty, T. M.McMaster, K. R. McMaster, ErnestGladden, Dr. Samuel Lindsay, C. F.Elliott, R. C. Gooding, J. E. MCDon-jaId, J. W. Cathcart, J. H. Cat~cart,W. H. Flenniken, H. E. Ketchin, G.R. Lauderdale, J. E. Coan, W. P.Castles, C. A. Robinson, Sr., W. L.Holley, W. R. Elliott, s-., W. M.Quattlebaum, George B. McMaster,T Ha

'93 lr IDavid Coalter Means, 61, died in

Savannah, Ga., the night of Thurs-day, July 16, from a heart attacksudden and without warning, sittingtalking with friends apparently en-tireiy well. .

He was born in Fairfield countynear Salem church, second son ofDr. David Coalter Means and hiswife, EHz~ath ·Mobley Means, and. Iwas the grandnephew of GovernorJohn Hugh Means.

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He was buried at 6 p. m., last Mon-day, at Connelly Springs, N. C.,where his mother was buried. Hehad been in the United States rail-way mail service for 33 years, and Iwas retired the first day of Decem- jber, 1930, receiving. ~ most eompli-mentary letter from the department,He had made hill home in Savannah,and at times I in Jacksonville, but I

, spent much time in Columbia, wherehe had many friends. He attendedthe university here. He was of gra-cious manners and' generous genialdisposition with fine intelligence andcharacter.He had many relatives in Colum-

Ibia, .having been first cousin of thelate David Harper Means and JamesHagood Means, Beverley Means Eng-lish, Harriet English Gillespie, andof Mrs. Dr. Theodore DuBose. Two,of the siste;s of his mother stjll sur-j

I vive, Mrs. Kate Mobley Southerlandof Connelly Springs, and Mrs. EllenMobley Screven of Spartanburg. His Ibrother, Robert Harper Means died inAsheville, N. C., five years ago, .

t whose son, Butler Clifton Means, hadfjust predeceased "him but left a sonnow eight years old. Another son ofRobert Means now lives in Lynch,Ky., Barton Bates Means.

The -nearest relative, Miss MarionMobley Means, a graduate of Win-throp college and an M. A. of theUniversity of Texas, teaches in theWest but makeshe~ headquarters atLynch with her nephew. She will bein COiumbia for two 'weeks visitingrelatives, Miss Alice -Means, Mrs, J p-, seph L. Nettles and Mrs. Charles D.

IArthur ..' •

D. C. Means was an active Mason,life member of the' Morocco temple!of the Shrine in Jacksonville, theRoyal Arch Masons, the Council ofRoyal and Select Masters, and' Da- ,

commandery, Knights Tem-