Iberia County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Nye, Clara Frances nee Smith - November 4, 1906
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Source: Times Union, Jacksonville, Florida, 5 Nov. 1906

Mrs. Edgar W. Nye, age 56 years, a native of North Carolina died November 4, 
1906, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E. W. Pharr,on the Avoca Plantation, 
near Morgan City, Louisiana. She was buried November 5, 1906, in New Iberia, 
Louisiana. Her decreased husband "Bill" Edgar W. Nye, was a famous humorist.



source: The Donaldsonville Chief. (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 
November 10, 1906, Image 1

Mrs. Edgar Wilson Nye, widow of "Bill" Nye, the noted American humorist, 
died at the home of her son-in-law, E. A. Pharr, near Morgan City, aged 56 
years.



source: The Weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, November 10, 1906, Image 2

NECROLOGICAL. - Mrs. E. W. Nye Laid to Rest in Rose Hill Cemetery. - Mrs. Edgar
Wilson Nye, widow of the famous humorist, Bill Nye died at the home of her
son-in-law, Mr. Eugene A. Pharr, Avoca Plantation, St. Mary Parish, Sunday Nov. 4th.
She was 56 years of age.

Mrs. Nye had been in Louisiana only about one month, having come to the home of her
daughter. Mrs. Pharr, where, she had intended spending the winter, and possibly
making her future home. She had been in Kansas City for the past year, where she was
ill most of the time. Accepting the invitation to spend the winter at the Avoca
Plantation, she had arrived full of hope and new inspiration, but to no end, as her
physical weakness had undermined the strong system of years ago, and she rapidly
succumbed to the disease that had fastened itself upon her.

Her maiden name was Miss Clara Frances Smith, and she was born in Chicago. She first
met Mr. Nye in Wyoming, at Laramine, where he was temporarily located while writing
his celebrated "Laramine Boomering." She was a music teacher. Bill Nye fell in love
with this splendid type of Western womenhood and they were married twenty-seven years
ago. They lived in Wisconsin for a time, but moved to New York, when Nye became
connected with the New York World Afterwards they bought a handsome home at Buck
Shoals, N. C., where Mr. Nye died ten years ago.

Following his death, Mrs. Nye traveled abroad for two years spending most of the time
in Germany. Returning to this country she took up her residence at Ithaca, N. Y.,
where Cornell University is located. Eugene A. Pharr, the young Louisianian, son of the
late Captain John N. Pharr was in Cornell at the time. He graduated in the engineering
department 1901 and shortly before that had met Miss Nye, the daughter. In 1902 they
were married.

Mrs. Nye leaves five children, three sons and two daughters. The daughters are Mrs.
Pharr and Miss Winifred, who is in Louisiana and was with her mother at the time of her
death. The three sons are: Two in New York, Max and Frank, and Douglas, aged 10, who is
with his mother, Although one of the son's name was Frank he was always called Jim, and
it was of "Max and Jim" that James Whitcomb Riley wrote one of his characteristic poems.

Mrs. Nye was a lovely mother, devoted to her childred (sic) and husband, and to his
memory. She had lived wholly for the children since his death. She was a handsome woman,
of large stature, a brunette of aquiline features.

Her remains were laid to rest in Rose Hill cemetery, this city, on last Monday afternoon.
 
 

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