The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-12

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Miss Sarah Thompson, the Countess Of Rumford.
~ ws before stated, disd q Concord. N. h on the
I'd inst. On the 9th, tho Rev DIR. Bouson delivered
discourse on the death of the COuntsss-the fol-
lowing extract from which forms IN interesting b.
osrsphH-
Yesterday few family friends and acquaintancss fol-
lowed to the grave sged lady known among the
Countess Rumford But whence did she that IT,
tie Of mobility! Who was she! What was her origin
daughter Of Rev Timothy walker the frst minister Of
| this town. She was the only daughter OF Benjamin
on the spot where she died Oct 1s l774 Her father
remarkable for his native talent and enterprise to
this tow from wobuIn Mass as teacher, in l772 and
marrying the eldest osughter-then a widows ef Rev.
Mr. Walker, settled among us Bat as the war Of the
revolution came being suspected Of PRINCIPLES and
feelings adverse to the American he obliged to
flee for taey first 10 his native and then to Bos-
ton under the protection of the British whence he
after tent Gen Gage the bearer of dispatches
to England Attracting the attention OF the government
there he found honorable empoymsnt till the close Of
Germany. introduced the Elector Of Bavaria and
employed by him in various services civil and mill
taiy in which he acquired most honorable distinction
Residing awhile at Munich she capital OF Bavaria he be-
came distinguished for his efoits to suppress the
system Of vsgrancy and msndicity which had
ward. in part f for his services he received
from the Eector the title OF Count Of the holy Roman
Empirewith pension settled him for Life Of nearly
$4,000 annusliy TO this title he added that Of Rumford,
In remembrance of his residence in this which
formerly called by that name About the year l7s6 he
sent request to his daughter in this country to inset
him in London which she did-her mother having pre-
vioutly decs ased 1892, aged iftytxo years Suisse
queny the daughter attended and shared the fortune OF
her father, until his death in France, in 1914. The
and changes in her evsDtfu life are in many
sp ctr remarkable The forsaken infant OF prosecuted
her fleeing from rted reproach and insult for
protection from enemy he had opposed In arms-an
orphan by the of the only parent left to protect
liking the home childhood to pass an
lated life wi her paterna grandmother in an djacent
Statea young girl In the hey day OF e encountering
ttaV srtlE nft The nf aA and
her long lost atbera resident of the capital of Bavaria
when Munich about to be bombarded by the Austrian
and which alone by the stern energy
OF her father at that time the chief Of the
Bavaran forcesthe caressed daughter Of hoDored
the ekte OF the saloons Of Paris-doubly orphan
foreign land and thence nheriting the estates and title
Of her to England and settling upon
the paerna estate at Brompton the English metro
polls at will the attentions of the tera Of the
BIh capital again resident at Paris and subject to
all the pqueiude naturally the result Of the revolutions
and the counter revolutions the tickle and
people of France the Countess Rumford after long
absence returned in lS45 from her sojourn in foreign
lands to end fes pilgrimage In her native State
the spot hallowed by the affections OF father the suffer
ing widowed mother and the tender recolections Of
her childhood Here she died the spot where she
born-on the I'd of December, inst aged IS years
The Countess married. but left her chief
adopted daughter. who assduousy AMI affection
atey waited her in the nfrmtes of age in her last
sichness and death The Countess left very considers
tates and from pension Of nearly 81 000 annually that
she received for nearly forty years the Bavarian
government In consideration OF her fathers services
The last of her life spent in quiet retirement,
enjoying the social intercourse Of few family friends and
shrnbbery the grounds about her residence and MINDFUL
doubt by her experience OF the trials and sorrows
to which orphans subject she in her last will made
charitable din position Of large portion Of her property
and particularly as is undertood gave the place where
she resided and the OF about SIS O00 for the estab
lishment there Of asylum for widows and female
phan children of Concord Her remains inferred in
the old buryng ground by the side OF her mother and
near the graves OF the Walker family.