, 1872-03-14

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D1ED.-In this city, on the 8th inst,
at the residence of her son-in- law, Mr..
C. c. Britt, Mrs. MARTHA AsHMUN
Brown, aged SO years.
The deceased was the mother of Beri-
ah Brown, formerly of this State, now
of Washington Territory, the late Gen.
John A. Brown, of this city, and Mr..
Daniel c. Brown, of Green Bay. She
was lady esteemed and loved by all
for her noble traits of character and
Christian virtues which she possessed
to remarkable degree. Right we'll has
she done her duty through life. All
will sincerely mourn her death.-Vis-
cousin State Register, Feb. 10, 1872.
The subject of the above obituary was
oorn in Blandford, Massachusetts, in
1889, of Huguenot family, several
members of which have added lustre to
New England history Eli P. Ashmun
was Senator in Congress during the
administration of President Monroe;
Lewis Ashmun was Professor at Har-
ward, and George Ashmun. recently de-
ceased, several times member of Con-
gress, and the President of the Chicago
Convention which nominated Mr.. Lin
coin for the Presidency, was the last
male representative of the old stock,
and was born IN the same old homestead
in which Martha Ashmun first saw the
light.
The deceased enjoyed educational ad-
vantages uncommon to women at that
time; in 1902 she was confirmed in the
Protestant Episcopal Church, and in
1909 removed to Canandaigua. New
York, where she was married the fol-
lowing year to Beriah Brown, ma
tive of Rhode Island, who was then en-
gagged in establishing the first salt works
at Montezuma, now Syracuse. She
became the mother of eleven children,
only three of whom are now living. In
all her relations to her family and to So
ciety she won the love and veneration
of all with whom she held intercourse
Uniformly cheerful and enjoying with
keen zest all innocent amusements of
the young, she never countenanced or
encouraged coarse familiarity or vulgar
mirth; we never heard slang phrase or
yituperative epithet pass from her lips,
or an unkind word to or of any human
being, and never learned of any person
who entertained or expressed unfriendly
| feelings towards her. This amiable pc
culiarity was not from any want Of ener-
gy-for few women were ever endowed
with greater strength of will or purpose
but the result of Fl ed principles and
perfect self-control. Her intercourse
with others was uniformly marked by
a gentle dignity of manner which COM
manded respect without repelling conf
dence and sympathy; the humblest and
most exalted were treated with the same
degree of Difference and kindly consid-
Grafton. Strictly womanly in all her
habits and sentiments, few men felt q
more lively interest in public affairs, or
were better informed in the current or an
tecedent history of the country, or had
more well-grounded convictions of the
principles upon which the government
ought to be administered. In religion,
she was strictly faithful to her own con-
victions and utterly free from intoler-
ance or censure for the opinions of 9th
ers. She retained all her mental vigor
almost to the hour of her death, and an
astonishing degree of physical strength
for her years until stricken by the acute
disase from which she died. Perhaps
it may be deemed indicate for son
to have said thus much of his deceased
mother for publication. We could not
in truth have said less, and it is but a
feeble tribute in comparison to what
our heart dictates.