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PARIS. Dec. 21. - Countess Jean de Kergorlay, the former Mary Louisa Carroll, died early today at her home at the age of 72. She was a daughter of John Lee Carroll, & Governor of Maryland, and a great-great-granddaughter of Charles Carroll, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Born in New York in 1859, she was married in 1886 to the Count de Kergorlay. They had four children, of whom three are living. A funeral service will be held on Thursday and burial will be at Fosseuse, in the Department of Oise, of which her husband was at one time Mayor.

Six generations ago Charles Carroll, an ancestor of the Countess Jean de Kergorlay, came from Ireland to Maryland. That was in 1688. His son, also named Charles Carroll, was Attorney General of the State. His grandson, the third Charles Carroll, was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence when he died in 1832. He was the famous "Charles Carroll of Carrollton," having perpetuated the title by signing his name that way to the Declaration of Independence.
A legend persists that after signing his name in the document simply as Charles Carroll a contemporary chided the Marylander, intimating good-naturedly that if the British should quell the rebellion Carroll would never be apprehended because of the frequency with which the name was encountered. Thereupon he picked up the quill, according to the legend, and added to his name the inscription "of Carrollton." The addendum still persists in the family.
Since pre-Revolutionary times the Carroll family in Maryland have taken a leading part in the public affairs of the State. John Lee Carroll, great-grandson of the Revolutionary figure and father of the Countess, was Governor of Maryland from 1876 to 1880. He was married twice, the first time to Anita Phelps, the daughter of a wealthy New York merchant. She was the mother of Mary Louisa Carroll. Besides Mary Louisa they had five other children. After the death of his first wife in 1873, John Lee Carroll married Mary Carter Thompson of Staunton, Va. They had a son, Philip Acosta Carroll. A daughter by the first marriage was married to Baron Louis de la Grange. The Count and Countess made their home for some years at 6 Rue Mesnil, Paris.³

CARRUTHERS, George Bartlet on Friday, May 26, 2000, at Chatham, in his 74th year. Survived by his wife Sewell Ann McKeough Carruthers, his sister Mardi Carruthers of Detroit, his daughter and son-in-law Lynn and John Park; two grandchildren Charlotte and George Park all of Detroit. Friends will be received at the Court House in Highbanks on Monday from 2 to 5 p.m. Funeral Service will be held on Tuesday at 3 p.m. from the Anglican Parish of Christ Church on Wellington Street in Chatham, with Rev. William Welch officiating. Interment in Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham.⁴