Athens State College - Columns Yearbook (Athens, AL)

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In Memoriam X the evening of October 13, 1912, Mrs. Jnlia Summers Ramos, who had been tilling the chair of Spanish at Athens College, died at 7 o ' clock at the residence of Caj t. O. P. i ' oe, Athens, Ala. The im- mediate cause of her death was urremic poisoning. Two little girls (aged 8 and 10), her beloved moth- er, and one brother (a government official in Russia) survive her. Airs. Ramos was the widow of the late Dr. Fiaphael Ramos, formerly Spanish translator in the AI. E. Publis hing House at Nashville, a granddaugh- ter of Dr. T. O. Summers of distinguished memory, and a grandniece of the late Hon. John T. Morgan. Mrs. Ramos was sick less than a week, and fhe serious nature of her illness was not apparent until the Sun- day before her death. Mrs. Ramos was 38 years of age on October 27 . She was a woman of brilliant endowment, gifted in a liter- ary way, and of unusual talent as a teacher. From her distinguished ancestry she inherited great strength of character and unusual intellectual powers. She died in the faith, with full assurance of her personal salvation. Her dying testimony was given in the presence of her mother and friends, and her mind never lost its jjerfect clearness even until death sealed her lips. The .Athens College lost, by the death of Mrs. Ramos, a strong teaclier, a loyal friend, and her mother and children a devoted daughter and a tender, loving counselor. M. X. M. (14)