A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Kentucky > Todd http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=2627 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=40576 Submitted by: SharonTMSI Article Title: unknown Article Date: 1939 Article Description: Obituary Caroline Ferguson Meriwether Article Text: [Note: She died March 27, 1939.] Death Summons Beloved Woman Mrs. Meriwether’s Rites Set For Wednesday Afternoon Mrs. Caroline Ferguson Meriwether, descendant of one of the first pioneer settlers in this section, died at 3:30 o’clock Monday afternoon at her home, “Merimont,” on the Trenton Road, at the age of ninety. She had been ill for several months. Funeral services will be held at the grave in the family cemetery at Meriville, near Guthrie, at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Pallbearers will be Douglas Meriwether, of St. Bethlehem; William Gordon, P. A. Meriwether, Ross McCuddy, of Russellville; Bowman Meriwether and James B. Hallums, Jr. Mrs. Meriwether, niece of Caroline Meriwether Goodlett, who organized the Tennessee State Chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy, was the widow of the late Douglas Meriwether and the daughter of the Rev. John D. and Nancy Minor Minor Meriwether Ferguson. Possessing a brilliant mind and keen wit, she was one of magnetic personality. She was educated at a boarding school in Allensville, Ky., and by private tutors at home. She was a great lover of poetry and even at her advanced age enjoyed quoting selections from her favorite poems. Mrs. Meriwether was born at the family homestead at Woodstock, Ky., on December 16, 1848. She married Douglas Meriwether of Ballard County, Ky., on October 8, 1868 and lived there less than a year, moving then to Merimont farm, a part of her grandfather, Charles N. Meriwether’s estate, where she spent the remainder of her long life. Surviving are one son, R. E. Meriwether, of Todd and Montgomery Counties; two daughters, Mrs. Paul Campbell, Washington, D. C., and Mrs. T. N. Meriwether, St. Petersburg, Fla.; seven grandchildren, Mrs. Allen Tate, noted Southern author under the penname of Caroline Gordon, of Greensboro, N.C.; Miss Marion Meriwether, Nashville; Margaret and Paul Campbell, Jr., Washington; William Gordon, Elkton, Ky.; Morris Gordon, St. Louis, and Douglas Meriwether, of St. Bethlehem, and three great grandchildren, Nancy Tate, Meriwether Gordon and Douglas Meriwether, IV. Mrs. Meriwether was first cousin of Dorothy Dix, of New Orleans. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ KY-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com