The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-07-06
THE TRANSCRIPT.
ST. ALBANS.
Friday. July u, 1900.

OurruARY. AT st. Adams, June 20
,eee Mrs. Catherine (Smith) Whit
-, widow of the late Enoch Whit
mo ESD, in the saith year of her age
This estimable octogenarian has al
80, rcached her haven of rest after {
,ovooe through life of remarkable
.nols and suffering. SO exemplary
..,s the character of the deceased in
.ho various relations oflife, that an OIL
lnsion to it may not prove either UNI
uolcome or uninstructive.
Rorn in the old town of Dover,
Mass on Christmas-day, 1882, of
highly respectable and intelligent pa
ronts she secured an early christian
o1ncation, and in arly life was trained,
u tbe important arts of housewifery
and rendering her home the seat Of
cbeerfulness, frugality and industry.
Soon after her marriage, she removed
9Th her husband to the beautiful vii
lace of Amherst, Mass, in which fa-
vored spot they reared a large family
and remained until their removal to
& Adams, Vt, about thirty years
aco Losing two sons and a daugh-
,er-in.law by drowning and two be-
loved daughters By consumption, Mr..
and Mrs. Whiting drank deep of the
waters of affection. But all of these
trials she bore with beautiful and
cbrstian-like submission, strengthen
inc the faith and keeping up the cour-
age Of her more responding husband
and family.
Mrs. Whiting with great tact and
system presided over well-ordered
home. Educated in good old
fashioned school of economy and sim
pllcty she was pattern of industry,
cheerfulness and genial hospitality
Best with remarkable physical as
well as mental constitution, she lived
beyond the ordinary limits of three
score years and ten. During the last
year her strength began for the first
tine sensibly to yield to the infrmi-
ties Of age. Surrounded by relatives
and friends who strove with all their |
might to smooth her pathway to the
grave, she finally sank back into the
Everlasting Arms of Him in whom
she had for more than half century
put her trust and rejoined in a bright
er and better world those loved ones
who we're not lost but had gone be-
fore, So beautiful a life, so peaceful 4
death, and such perfect resignation (
to the will of God, ought to have
more permanent record than this brief !
notice Mrs. Whiting loaves three
CONS and ono dnnehter IN rnor,r h4~ |
loss One son, only, resides IN St' Al
bans, where the deceased breathed /
her last, and where, upon calm Sun
day evening, she was buried, after
prayer by Prof Buckham, at the set
ting of the sun.
Thus one by one are the bright
inks of the aged christian sisterhood
broken by death. We are reminded
Of the recent death of Mrs Susan AL
ford Green, aged 90; of Mrs. Thorn
as H. Campbell, aged of Mrs.
Silas Hathaway aged rs; of Sarah
Eaton, aged 81; of Susan Dean, aged
81; of Peggy Mason, aged 76; of Mel
ly bridges, aged ~ of Prudence II.
Burton, aged 81; of Hannah H. Brain
erd, aged II; of Laura Bridges, aged
"a; of Druscilla Burbank, aged so;
Of Lucinda White, aged 70; of. Mary
Iullar, aged rs; of Jerusha Beals,
aged 70; of Sarah Hardy, aged 10;
Of Lima Wead, aged 70; of Elizabeth
Little, aged 6S; of Anna Clark, aged
ooi of Nancy butcher, aged 10; of
cynthia West, aged SO; of Sally Bar
low, aged So; and of the venerable
Mrs. Fanny Brigham, aged 80 years.
ouch catalogue of aged residents
VINO have borne in our midst con-
spcuous part in the walks of christian
OeAehcence, ehcits in its perusal no
ordinary degree of satisfaction that
'nese ladies lived among us and lived
50 long A few of this aged sister,
mood OF kindred spirits, who are yet
residents of st. Adams, remain whose
tenure OF life is precarious. They can
not, IN the ordinary dispensation o
ooas mercy, be expected to tarry
H''e many more years. OF these
none Will leave behind them better
record or wider circle of friends thar
'ue good old lady just buried, upof
"noSe grave this garland of flowers i
"Hscuonately and reverently placed.
Il. H.