Mrs. Mary Leitch, widow of Captain Andrew Leitch, died last evening at 7:30 o'clock at her residence, 610 East High street, after an illness of about three months. She was in her ninetieth year. The funderal serviices will take place from the residence Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, and will be conducted by the Rev. George L. Petrie, pastor of the Presbyterian church. Interment will be in Maplewood cemetery. Mrs. Leitch was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1816. The family came to this country in 1819 and made their home at Orange Dale, near this city. Her immediate surviving relatives are her sister, Miss Anne R. Watson and her cousin, Miss Sarah J. Leitch and her grandson, Mr. Andrew M. Brechin; and her neices, Mrs. Helen Gilmore, Alexandria; Mrs. Fannie Haden, Rockbridge county; and Mrs. Augusta Kinnear, Roanoke. Other connections of the Leitch family are well known in this community. Mrs. Leitch was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church in Charlottesville for 6__ years and fell asleep in Jesus Christ in the hope and full assurance of a glorious resurrection.
Mrs. Eleanor Gilmore Brechin, wife of Andrew M. Brechin, Sr., died at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the University Hospital, after an extended illness. The funeral was held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the Presbyterian Church, the service being conducted by the pastor, Rev. Dwight M. Chalmers. Interment was in Maplewood Cemetery. Active pall-bearers were W. F. Souder, Harry Linton, M. M. Railey, Oscar Hawkings, W. W. Waddell, W. E. Fowler and F. Roy Early. Mrs. Brechin was born in Rockbridge County, daughter of the late T. Russell and Mary Ellen Watson Gilmore. Besides her husband, she is survived by two sons, Andrew M. Brechin Jr. and Harry Gilmore Brechin. She also leaves one brother, T. Russell Gilmore, of St. Augustine, Fla., and two sisters, Mrs. John A. Pack, of Roanoke, and Mrs. D. Crafton, of Hollywood, Cal.
The body of Andrew Melvin Brechin, who died Monday night at the home of his son, Harry Brechin, in Baltimore, will arrive here on the 2:37 Chesapeake and Ohio train this afternoon, and interment will follow in the Brechin family plot in Maplewood Cemetery, with the Rev. Francis J. Blakely, pastor of the Holy Comforter Catholic Church, officiating.