Mary Frances (Fanny) was the first child born to Pierre and Mary Jane Porter Guillet.What follows is a tribute published for her.
Mrs. Mary Frances Majors was born in Sommerset County, Maryland, about 69 years ago.While still a girl her father, Peter Guillet, moved to New Orleans. In that city she met Hugo B. Majors, a Norwegian sea-captain to whom she gave her hand at the age of eighteen. For twenty years she made her home with him upon the deep. For sixteen more, they lived happily together in Goa, a Portuguese province of India. There she burried her companion. The last years of her life were spent in DeWitt and Kansas City, Mo. Her death was sudden. About ten o'clock, August 17, while talking to her grandson, Hugo Ellis she complained of feeling strangely. Hardly had she done this when she began gasping and in a moment, she had breathed her last. A daughter living in Lisbon, Portugal, is the only surviving child. A baby boy lies sleeping in the Sunny South, a daughter who is laid to rest in an Island of the Indian Ocean, but by none of these, nor by him who sleeps in faraway Goa did we lay her, but we placed her by the side of her mother, in the cemetery of Pleasant Park Church, near DeWitt. In her youth she gave her hand to God and her heart to the church, and ever since lived a consistent Christian life. Her kindness and sympathy was not confined to her home nor to her race. Even the Collies of India shared it, and many a time with her own hands did wash and bind their wounds. She always expressed strong faith in God, and looked to him as her protector. She leaves no dying testimony-death was too sudden-she leaves a living testimony. She is gone, but her influence remaineth. We say farewell, but only for a time-we shall meet again.
J.N Huggins
Mrs. Mary Frances Majors was born in Sommerset County, Maryland, about 69 years ago.While still a girl her father, Peter Guillet, moved to New Orleans. In that city she met Hugo B. Majors, a Norwegian sea-captain to whom she gave her hand at the age of eighteen. For twenty years she made her home with him upon the deep. For sixteen more, they lived happily together in Goa, a Portuguese province of India. There she burried her companion. The last years of her life were spent in DeWitt and Kansas City, Mo. Her death was sudden. About ten o'clock, August 17, while talking to her grandson, Hugo Ellis she complained of feeling strangely. Hardly had she done this when she began gasping and in a moment, she had breathed her last. A daughter living in Lisbon, Portugal, is the only surviving child. A baby boy lies sleeping in the Sunny South, a daughter who is laid to rest in an Island of the Indian Ocean, but by none of these, nor by him who sleeps in faraway Goa did we lay her, but we placed her by the side of her mother, in the cemetery of Pleasant Park Church, near DeWitt. In her youth she gave her hand to God and her heart to the church, and ever since lived a consistent Christian life. Her kindness and sympathy was not confined to her home nor to her race. Even the Collies of India shared it, and many a time with her own hands did wash and bind their wounds. She always expressed strong faith in God, and looked to him as her protector. She leaves no dying testimony-death was too sudden-she leaves a living testimony. She is gone, but her influence remaineth. We say farewell, but only for a time-we shall meet again.
J.N Huggins
Mary Frances (Fanny) was the first child born to Pierre and Mary Jane Porter Guillet.What follows is a tribute published for her.
Mrs. Mary Frances Majors was born in Sommerset County, Maryland, about 69 years ago.While still a girl her father, Peter Guillet, moved to New Orleans. In that city she met Hugo B. Majors, a Norwegian sea-captain to whom she gave her hand at the age of eighteen. For twenty years she made her home with him upon the deep. For sixteen more, they lived happily together in Goa, a Portuguese province of India. There she burried her companion. The last years of her life were spent in DeWitt and Kansas City, Mo. Her death was sudden. About ten o'clock, August 17, while talking to her grandson, Hugo Ellis she complained of feeling strangely. Hardly had she done this when she began gasping and in a moment, she had breathed her last. A daughter living in Lisbon, Portugal, is the only surviving child. A baby boy lies sleeping in the Sunny South, a daughter who is laid to rest in an Island of the Indian Ocean, but by none of these, nor by him who sleeps in faraway Goa did we lay her, but we placed her by the side of her mother, in the cemetery of Pleasant Park Church, near DeWitt. In her youth she gave her hand to God and her heart to the church, and ever since lived a consistent Christian life. Her kindness and sympathy was not confined to her home nor to her race. Even the Collies of India shared it, and many a time with her own hands did wash and bind their wounds. She always expressed strong faith in God, and looked to him as her protector. She leaves no dying testimony-death was too sudden-she leaves a living testimony. She is gone, but her influence remaineth. We say farewell, but only for a time-we shall meet again.
J.N Huggins
Mrs. Mary Frances Majors was born in Sommerset County, Maryland, about 69 years ago.While still a girl her father, Peter Guillet, moved to New Orleans. In that city she met Hugo B. Majors, a Norwegian sea-captain to whom she gave her hand at the age of eighteen. For twenty years she made her home with him upon the deep. For sixteen more, they lived happily together in Goa, a Portuguese province of India. There she burried her companion. The last years of her life were spent in DeWitt and Kansas City, Mo. Her death was sudden. About ten o'clock, August 17, while talking to her grandson, Hugo Ellis she complained of feeling strangely. Hardly had she done this when she began gasping and in a moment, she had breathed her last. A daughter living in Lisbon, Portugal, is the only surviving child. A baby boy lies sleeping in the Sunny South, a daughter who is laid to rest in an Island of the Indian Ocean, but by none of these, nor by him who sleeps in faraway Goa did we lay her, but we placed her by the side of her mother, in the cemetery of Pleasant Park Church, near DeWitt. In her youth she gave her hand to God and her heart to the church, and ever since lived a consistent Christian life. Her kindness and sympathy was not confined to her home nor to her race. Even the Collies of India shared it, and many a time with her own hands did wash and bind their wounds. She always expressed strong faith in God, and looked to him as her protector. She leaves no dying testimony-death was too sudden-she leaves a living testimony. She is gone, but her influence remaineth. We say farewell, but only for a time-we shall meet again.
J.N Huggins
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