The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1843-04-04
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In this town, March 27, of eryspelas, Mr. ABEL
BUTLER, aged So. The death of AIR Butler is Sc
we're bereavement to his family: to his wife, for he
ever kind and afIectonate husband, and to his
children, TO whom he a counsellor and indugent
father Kind iii all his intercourse with his fellow
men, he won their esteem; and faithful as he was IN
his domestic and social relations as well as in his
relations to society in general, he has gone down to
the grave deeply lamented. In their afflicton the
family no doubt feel that they need, they have,
the sincere coincidence of their many friends.
In Danville, March %, lea. Timothy Ingalls,, in
the S0th year of his age
In Sutton, March %, Of an affection of the heart
John, Of widow Lucinda Marble, in the 18th
year OF his age.
In Danye, March "a, Capt. Stephen Dexter, ag-
ed ia revolutionary pensoncr He retired to bed
in usual health the night of the 2Sd ut. and was
found dead the next morning.
In Barnet, Feb. Ii, oferysipeas, Martha p. Moore,
aged 33 years. Also, 22d Feb. Mary l.. aged 81
daughters of Daniel and susannah Moore.
In Ryegate, March IL, Francis Stewart, aged 81.
In this town, March 25, widow LUCY H. HowEs,
daug liter Of Ebcnezer Hutchinson, aged So. Mrs H.
born in marlborough, N. H. where she lived
until the fall of 1928 She then bid farewell to her
friends and joined company of Missionaries from
different sections Of the country, and proceeded IN
der the direction Of the board to Elliot, Miss. where
she spent 0 years with the Indians at different sta
tions. A,treay then having been effected by Gov
eminent the Indians were compelled to remove faith.
west the mission was broken up and most Of the
band, Mr. Howes, removed to Indiana, where he d.
ed in the fall of 537. In the spring Of 1888, Mrs Fl.
returned to her friends in New England, having
dured prvation and fatigue for the sake ofading and
assisting in evangezlng and outstanding the heather
tribes. Mrs II. active christian tor the last 26
years. willing to spend her life for the cause ofChrst.
Although her last sickness a consumpve disease
of long DURATION she patient in suffering and
ready to depart and be with Christ She conversed
freely to her last moments, giving instructions 10 her
children, and such it is hoped will never be forgot
ten by them; and her friends and ncghbors she
ed not to admonsh while life and strength were left;
and departs the last rays light peacefully did
she fall asleep in Jesus.
Sweet is the scene when christians die,
When holy souls retire to rest,
How mildly beams the closing eye,
How gently heaves the expiring breast. Com
In Cabot March 20, Mis-. PATTY, wife Of Asa
Coburn, in the Goth year Of her age In the month
of June, 1917, che publicly protested her faith IN
God her reconcied father and friend through the
atonement and med atsn of Christ, and renewing
of the Holy Ghost, and "as united to the cong. chh
of this town, of which, till removed to JON the church
triumphant, she was much beloved and highly ex-
emplary member. The ground of her hope was not
in any works Of righteousness which she had done, but
in the sovereign grace of God in Christ She
firm believer in the great foundation truths oil the Bible
Her pety rational and steady and like the rising
sun shome brighter and brighter until the day oil her
death. Consequently her connection with the church
was an honor and blessing to that as well as that to
her. Possessing and cutvatng atender conscience,
she appreciated the soemnity and sacrednes oil COW
enant obligations, and never eit herself at lioerty TO
violate hers because Others would theirs, but rather
by the faults of others abored TO correct her own In
her family and her neghborhood she possessed those
qualifications which readercd her much beloved Like
a help meet, indeed, she willingly bore her proper
tion the labos and responsibilities of the connubia
state. In her last Sickness though protracted TO
twelve months, in the first part of which she was
nearly, and during the last few months entirely, de,
prived of the use of her upper and lower limbs and
also of the faculty of speech she manesten ,hat pa
,;ence in suffering that gratitude friends, and that
confidence in God which flow from new and sane
tilted heart and which bids the behoder TO sing with
the PsaImist 'sPrecous in the sight of the Lord is
the denth Of his Saints.
''' ~, .t re,norbrance of her virtues stimulate to
an imitation Other example, that OF others ii may
be said, 'sThcse all died in faith" l." H. 8.