MRS. LENTHALL ARROWTOWN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 6, 7 February 1907, Page 19

MRS. LENTHALL ARROWTOWN.

We' ('.Lake ' Wakalip-u' Mail"') haye _ to record the death, on" 'fc>uriday, r ..January, zti, at her home,. Arrowtown, of -Mrs.- Lenthall, "a '• very old." and highly- esteemed resident' of -the Wakatipu district. Deceased' lady *had been sullering fox some' years past .-from'par--alysis, -and if was „ t his, complaint that brought" her : en-d. .-Deceased had - reached-* -a fair age and arrived "in the district, in the^ sixties,, having -come from Ballarat, Victoria. .it 4s said, by ■ those who are in . a . position to know,, that "-Mrs. Lenthall vwas xhe first woman, who, had the -courage- -to come to the goldfields." Deceased was ol a very kindly disposition, and was much respected by a large circle of friends She^was the mother of a large family, four of whom are alive and all grown up. Mrs. McCarthy, wife of our respected townsman, .-is one of the -daughters . whilst Mrs. Roency is .the .other. There are -.three . sons who, with the daughters, are all by the first marriage. Of late years deceased divided her time between Queenstown and Arrow. The funeral took place at Arro\*town.— R.l. P.