The Austrian, Greek, and French Consuls were very kind, and the Bulgarian church was offered for the funeral.
Mrs.Meriam possessed an excellent constitution, but the strain had been too much for her.

A premature confinement followed, and fever, which assumed a typhoid form, closed her earthly career, July 25, about three weeks after her husband's murder.[1] [1] A statement, made at the time, that Mr.Meriam fired on the assassins was afterwards found to be untrue.

Nor did Mrs.Meriam receive any injury at the time of the murder.

Nothing was taken from her personally, and no violence was offered her.

_Missionary Herald_, 1863, p.