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Mrs. Lavalotte Higginbotham
CHAPMAN, wife of J.W. CHAPMAN, the well known lawyer, died at her home here on Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. The funeral services were held in the Presbyterian church, on yesterday afternoon, at 8 o'clock, conducted by Rev. S.O.
HALL, the pastor, in the presence of a very large concourse of people. The active pall bearers were, Judge J.H.
STUART, A.S. HIGGINBOTHAM, J.W. SPOTTS, Peery BRITTAIN, Henry
PRESTON and B.W. STRAS. Honorary, Messrs R.R. HENRY, S.C.
GRAHAM, J.S. GILLESPIE, Geo. W. GILLESPIE, S.D. MAY, S.M.B.
COULLING and William H. WERTH. Flower bearers, C.W. JONES
and Barnes GILLESPIE. The interment was in Jeffersonville cemetery. Mrs.
CHAPMAN was a daughter of the late Reese HIGGINBOTHAM, and was born and reared in this county. At the time of her death she was 44 years of age. Three sisters, Mrs.
DEVALUT, of Tennessee, Mrs. L.C. DODD, Graham, and Mrs. Mary
HIGGINBOTHAM, of St. Louis survive.
Deceased was first cousin to Mr. B.W. STRAS and Mrs. A.P. and Mrs. Joseph S.
GILLESPIE of this town, besides remotely related to a large number of the people of this county. Mrs.
CHAPMAN had been in invalid for several years, and had suffered a great deal. She was a gentle, sweet, spirited, pious, intelligent woman. Her passing was as
peaceful and quiet as the going down of that evening sun - sinking but to rise again, to shine upon another shore.
Her body was laid to rest beside that of her bright and beautiful little son, "Ned" her only child, whose untimely death a short time ago broke her heart, a blow from which she never recovered. There must have been a happy greeting in the Beautiful home in heaven.
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