Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-06-30

pastor Of the Congregational church Of
Benson, took place ON Tuesday afternoon.
Rev. NJ. L. Severanceof Orwell, preach
ed the sermon using as text John
xii: SO. 4g
Prayer by Rev. Mr.. Miner of Poultney.
Charge to the Pastor, by Rev. Mr..
Bourne of West Rutland.
Charge to the church and people, by
Rev. Caluin Granger of Hubbardton.
Right hand of fellowship, by Rev. Mr..
Miner.
Benedietion by the pastor. e
The choir rendered very excellent
music for the occasion. The church was
nicely decorated with choice flowers ALL
the exercises connected with the occaca-
son passed off very pleasantly and pro-
fitably. Those participating in the cere-
mony doing themselves and the occasion
credit, and the audience being greatly
entertained. K .
ToWNsHEND.-We learn with regret of
the lingering and dangerous illness of the
Rev. Horace Fletcher, D. D., Pastor of the
Baptist Church in Townshend. Doctor
Fletcher is man of eminent piety, of
great and classic literary culture, and uni
versally beloved by his people, and all who
know him. A native of Proctorsville, soon
after his collegiate graduation he studied
law in the office of Hon. W. G. Bradley,
of Westminster, and settled as lawyer
in his native village.
Subsequently he studied divinity and
became the pastor Of the church over
which he now has charge, and where he
he has been continuously for more than a
quarter of century.
At one time member of the State
Senate from Windham County, he won
the confidence and esteem of his fellow
senators, and retired from that body only
to devote himself more exclusively to his
clerical duties, that the measure Of his
goodness might be more perfectly deve-
loped in the usefulness of his quiet and
Christian life.
Such and SO good man can lily be
spared from community.
This old established family, of the first
settlers of Caveudish, is fast passing away
The ancestor Hon. Asaph Fletcher, M. D.,
emigrated from Westford, Mass, to Cav
endish, in 1857.
And after many years spent in the &C.
tive practice of Medicine, died in Caven-
dish in 1889, aged 90. He had six sons
who survived him. Asaph leading
business man and prominent politician in
Windsor County, died at Woodstock in
1848.
The late Judge Richard Fletcher Of
Boston, who died last season at that city,
in the S1st year of his age.
| Alpheas Fletcher NJ D., in his day the
most witty man as well as skillful physi.
clan in Vermont, if not indeed in New
England, who died in 1889, at Caven-
dish. ....-
Addison Fletcher, successful mer
chant in his native town, died there in
1892
Ex-Gov. Ryland Fletcher, who still re-
sides upon the old homestead, and whose
successful efforts in the late constitutional
Convention at Montpelier, in behalf Of
biennial sessions of the Legislature, viii
long be remembered, both by the friends
and opposers of that measure.
And the Rev. Horace Fletcher, whose
illness is made the occasion of this notice
Thus the first pioneers in Vermont set
Element aud civilization have long since
passed away. And the second generation
with here and there solitary exception
have been gathered to the fathers. Ever
the third, the children's chiIare.., ore ra.,
| idlv treadinp the pathway to the inviting
tomb. Who shall tell the historic tale o
all these worthy men, all over the State
when few more years shall have cast thu
dim shadows of the past over the hurry
ing time of the present? Who shall
hold the Geographic pen to truthfully an6
adequately write the lives and incidents
and put on paper the anecdotes and events
IN bo hprad