her family, died, leaving Mrs. Stockton the
last of a family of five children. The two
sons have also passed into the Great Beyond.

In her younger days, she contributed many
poems and some prose to newspapers and
magazines over the name of Cora M. Downs.

Ex-Gov. St. John appointed her one of the
regents of the University of Kansas.

Her beautiful poem: ``In Memoriam'' to
Sarah Walter Chandler Coates was her last.

`` `We seem like children,' she was wont to
say,
`Talking of what we cannot understand,'
And in the dark or daylight, all the way,
Holding so trustfully a Father's hand.
And this was her religion, not to dwell
On tenets, creeds, or doctrines, but to
live
On a pure faith, and striving to do well
The simple duties that each hour should
give.''



MARGARET HILL McCARTER.