Litchfield enquirer., 1864-02-25
DIED.

ID this town, (Northfeld). Mrs. Thankful Hopkins, aged 90 years and montus.
 Blessed are the dead, that die in the Lord.
 In Bethlsm, Feb. 10th, Mellvinia, daughter of Mir. Ralph Muusou, aged l5 years.
 In Woodbury, at the residence of her son Rev. John Churchill-MIs. Ruhannah Wood ward, aged 85 years.
 In Brooklyn. N. Y, 1lth inst. Earl Percy Pease, formerly of Norfolk.
 Eari pe"cy pease was born in Norfolk, Ju'y sOth, l77S, in the house (since burned) adj"in- ing the estate of Capt. Titus Ives, whose grand dasghter, Mary, he subsequently married At sixteen, he was placed in the store of Col. pcttibone of Granby, where he remained but ;s short time Returning home, he taught the district school in Canaan several Years. Alter &his. he learned the clothier's trade ot his brother Allen, in Sharon; and established the drst factory for wooden cloths in hls nstiVc town. He was active in the construction of the turnpike through the Green Woods, so c,Iled. from New Hartford to the Mass 'chu setts line: and has said that at that time, he might have bought all the lands along Che Blackberry rver. from his factory to She gates Q mile below, for s,ngle piece of broadcloth.
 It was to his clothiers works that neigh boring Parsen'' brought piece sf home Spun," to be dyed q mirt color He was prominent Mason, when to belong to that Graft was an honor, ard not leproach. He early urged the warming of the meeting house by a stove. in place of the tin foot warmers then in use but SO strong was the feeling that meeting going was penance ana not a pleasurc-and % little the need Of fire by our robust ancestors that the project was abandon ed for a later season. He was the first to stock the ponds in his town with pickerel, bringing the m in tub from Litchheld thus spelling some good trout streams, and not greatly oeil- ntiag the pouds th. Church in Norfolk, then under the pasto rai care of Rev, Ralph Emerson. and was an active and useful member About the year 1925. he moved to Hartford. and. while there, Attended Rev. Carlos Wilcox church In 1929, he went to Albany-attending successlvely Dr. Sprague's, Dr. Campbsll's, and nnaiiy uni, ting with Dr.. Palmer's where he remained Gill he removed to Brooklyn, where ne oled' ct the residence of his son, Richard Il. sease leaving his widow, Mrs. Mary Ives, surVi vor
 Earl Percy was the sou of Nathaniel ano Eunice Pease, and the youngest or thirteel children-eight brothers and five daugh'ers the youngest of whom, Martha, had tue sin guiar fate to die of the bitc of a "'ao co'us circumstance recorded on her tomb stone: Ht was the lasto the family and the longsst-llved having reached nearly the age of his fathcr
 no uied at Ss. He had three sons ana one oaugo.er. twenty two grand children and fou' great grand-children-a truly prolific vine
 His health had been feeble for some months past but 1t was only within a week of his oessh that he vi:ibly failed and took to his bed. An ailopathic physician was called. (the frst he would have for years. ! and in 36 hours after. he breathed his last. He died on Thurs. day the llth inst, at 10 in the morning. aged St years. His end was peaceful, life going ou, a q flame A fp,pl
 of old age-s truly natural death. He wal conscious to the last-his children and chii dren's children around him {; and his last wish almost his last words were. Lay me beside m, mother,'- Bury me by my mothsr'
 His remains were, consequently. brought t. Norfolk and laid between his father and moth CT. The following affecting lines were mos feslingly read by Rev. Dr.. Eldridge, as he wa lowered to his final rosting-place :-
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