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Rh The following taken from the Gazette, Raleigh, N. C., shows the esteem in which she was held in that city:

The following in reference to the funeral of Mrs. Scruggs is clipped from the Richvioiid Planet of December 3, 1892:

Her funeral was very largely attended. Several ministers of other denominations spoke in praise of her lovely Christian life, and also offered consolation to the bereaved family. The two institutions, Shaw University and St. Augustine Normal and Collegiate Institute, suspended studies that the students might attend in a body the funeral. This was never before known in the history of Raleigh—the closing of two schools to allow their students to attend the funeral of a private citizen.