 In October 1963, a Klansman was killed.In 1964, Hayling and other activists urged the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to come to St. Augustine.Four prominent Massachusetts women – Mary Parkman Peabody, Esther Burgess, Hester Campbell (all of whose husbands were Episcopal bishops), and Florence Rowe (whose husband was vice president of the John Hancock Insurance Company) – also came to lend their support.