Miss Constance Witherby, 16, Providence, R.I., daughter of the late Edwin C. Witherby, long a prominent official of the Solvay Process Company, is dead in Switzerland, where she had been traveling during the summer with her cousin, Mrs. I. Peace Hazard of Providence.
World of her death was telephoned yesterday to her aunt, Mrs. Martin H. Knapp of Syracuse and Cazenovia, after a cablegram had reached Miss Witherby's mother, Mrs. Foster Hunt in Providence. The exact time and place of her death was not stated but the message gave the cause of death as heart disease.
The girl was to have returned to her home in Providence early in September. She had been on the continent since Aug. 1.
Miss Witherby is a granddaughter of Mrs. Frederick R. Hazard of Solvay. She has lived in Providence since the marriage of her mother to Foster Hunt some time after the death of Mr. Witherby.
Syracuse Herald, Saturday August 31, 1929, page 23
Contance attended Lincoln School, a short walk from they home. There she contributed to "Lincoln Green" and published poetry and fiction. She acted in productions and played on the baseball and basketball teams. She had two brothers Thomas and Frederick, and the Hunt's baby daughter Deborah.
Following her junior year she traveled to Europe with her Hazard cousins. After hiking the Alps she felt tired in the evening and the next morning awoke with a slight fever. Her conditioned worsened and she was diagnosed with a failing heart. After a service in a small "English church" she was buried there.
Her parents bought land between Waterman and Pitman Streets opposite their home and erected Constance Witherby Park. Donated to the city of Providence, it is on teh National Register of Historic Places. A bronze statue by Gail Sherman Corbett in the style of Constance was placed there and subsequently moved to Blackstone Boulevard where it joins Clarendon Street.
Article in Lincoln Magazine Winter 2010 by Stephen Coon.
World of her death was telephoned yesterday to her aunt, Mrs. Martin H. Knapp of Syracuse and Cazenovia, after a cablegram had reached Miss Witherby's mother, Mrs. Foster Hunt in Providence. The exact time and place of her death was not stated but the message gave the cause of death as heart disease.
The girl was to have returned to her home in Providence early in September. She had been on the continent since Aug. 1.
Miss Witherby is a granddaughter of Mrs. Frederick R. Hazard of Solvay. She has lived in Providence since the marriage of her mother to Foster Hunt some time after the death of Mr. Witherby.
Syracuse Herald, Saturday August 31, 1929, page 23
Contance attended Lincoln School, a short walk from they home. There she contributed to "Lincoln Green" and published poetry and fiction. She acted in productions and played on the baseball and basketball teams. She had two brothers Thomas and Frederick, and the Hunt's baby daughter Deborah.
Following her junior year she traveled to Europe with her Hazard cousins. After hiking the Alps she felt tired in the evening and the next morning awoke with a slight fever. Her conditioned worsened and she was diagnosed with a failing heart. After a service in a small "English church" she was buried there.
Her parents bought land between Waterman and Pitman Streets opposite their home and erected Constance Witherby Park. Donated to the city of Providence, it is on teh National Register of Historic Places. A bronze statue by Gail Sherman Corbett in the style of Constance was placed there and subsequently moved to Blackstone Boulevard where it joins Clarendon Street.
Article in Lincoln Magazine Winter 2010 by Stephen Coon.
Miss Constance Witherby, 16, Providence, R.I., daughter of the late Edwin C. Witherby, long a prominent official of the Solvay Process Company, is dead in Switzerland, where she had been traveling during the summer with her cousin, Mrs. I. Peace Hazard of Providence.
World of her death was telephoned yesterday to her aunt, Mrs. Martin H. Knapp of Syracuse and Cazenovia, after a cablegram had reached Miss Witherby's mother, Mrs. Foster Hunt in Providence. The exact time and place of her death was not stated but the message gave the cause of death as heart disease.
The girl was to have returned to her home in Providence early in September. She had been on the continent since Aug. 1.
Miss Witherby is a granddaughter of Mrs. Frederick R. Hazard of Solvay. She has lived in Providence since the marriage of her mother to Foster Hunt some time after the death of Mr. Witherby.
Syracuse Herald, Saturday August 31, 1929, page 23
Contance attended Lincoln School, a short walk from they home. There she contributed to "Lincoln Green" and published poetry and fiction. She acted in productions and played on the baseball and basketball teams. She had two brothers Thomas and Frederick, and the Hunt's baby daughter Deborah.
Following her junior year she traveled to Europe with her Hazard cousins. After hiking the Alps she felt tired in the evening and the next morning awoke with a slight fever. Her conditioned worsened and she was diagnosed with a failing heart. After a service in a small "English church" she was buried there.
Her parents bought land between Waterman and Pitman Streets opposite their home and erected Constance Witherby Park. Donated to the city of Providence, it is on teh National Register of Historic Places. A bronze statue by Gail Sherman Corbett in the style of Constance was placed there and subsequently moved to Blackstone Boulevard where it joins Clarendon Street.
Article in Lincoln Magazine Winter 2010 by Stephen Coon.
World of her death was telephoned yesterday to her aunt, Mrs. Martin H. Knapp of Syracuse and Cazenovia, after a cablegram had reached Miss Witherby's mother, Mrs. Foster Hunt in Providence. The exact time and place of her death was not stated but the message gave the cause of death as heart disease.
The girl was to have returned to her home in Providence early in September. She had been on the continent since Aug. 1.
Miss Witherby is a granddaughter of Mrs. Frederick R. Hazard of Solvay. She has lived in Providence since the marriage of her mother to Foster Hunt some time after the death of Mr. Witherby.
Syracuse Herald, Saturday August 31, 1929, page 23
Contance attended Lincoln School, a short walk from they home. There she contributed to "Lincoln Green" and published poetry and fiction. She acted in productions and played on the baseball and basketball teams. She had two brothers Thomas and Frederick, and the Hunt's baby daughter Deborah.
Following her junior year she traveled to Europe with her Hazard cousins. After hiking the Alps she felt tired in the evening and the next morning awoke with a slight fever. Her conditioned worsened and she was diagnosed with a failing heart. After a service in a small "English church" she was buried there.
Her parents bought land between Waterman and Pitman Streets opposite their home and erected Constance Witherby Park. Donated to the city of Providence, it is on teh National Register of Historic Places. A bronze statue by Gail Sherman Corbett in the style of Constance was placed there and subsequently moved to Blackstone Boulevard where it joins Clarendon Street.
Article in Lincoln Magazine Winter 2010 by Stephen Coon.
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