Mary Frodsham Greenhow obit

Mrs. Mary FRODSHAM GREENHOW died at her residence, No. 7 Oak street this morning after a long illness, lasting from January, 1903, when she suffered a stroke of appoplexy, which left her in a paralysed condition, under which affliction she gradually failed until the end came. It is a source of comfort to her family and friends to know that she suffered no physical pain after the first shock, while she bore the affliction, a great one to her, with her natural energy and her interest in all that surrounded her, with great composure and a pathetic fortitude.

Mrs. GREENHOW was born is St. Helens, in Lancashire, England, upon Christmas Day, in the year 1823, and was consequently in her eighty-third year. She was the only daughter of Edward FRODSHAM, of St. Helens, a then noted watch manufacturer and was next to the youngest of six children, of whom her brother George, the youngest member of the family, is the sole survivor. She was well educated in a private school, in St. Helens, and was a woman of unusually bright mind and strong convictions, sincere, sympathetic, an earnest friend, an industrious woman, and a model home keeper. She was strongly devoted to her family and deeply interested in all the events of the day and age, and had a wide circle of friends and admirers.

She was married to the late John GREENHOW in Galena, Illinois, in 1844, and they had three children, who lived to maturity, the present editor of the Evening Tribune, Mrs. Sarah WILKINSON and the late Mrs. Margaret WOMBOUGH, the wife of the late Major Charles H. WOMBOUGH of this city.

Of her brothers all but one were citizens of this country. One becoming a prominent businessman in San Francisco, California, where his children are well known, one being western passenger agent of the Chicago and Northwestern railway. The oldest settled in Missouri and was very prominent in Savannah. One of his sons was postmaster there, and another, who died sometime since was captain of his company during the war of the rebellion. The youngest, George, was a watchmaker of this city, and never having married, was deeply devoted to his sister, and over who she watched with deep affection and solicitude. She had resided in this city for thirty-six years. The funeral will be held from her late residence, on Oak street, on Friday afternoon, at two o'clock.