Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-03-20
From the Jonesboro Qll) Gazette.
Lucinda Sabin Cowdery.


1884, at Saxtons River, Windham coun-
ty, Vermont, where she united with the
Congregational Church in 1850, was
married to Asa A. Cowdery at the same
place IN 1856, and went to Boston where
they lived about a year, and then re-
moved to Chicago where they remained
nearly fifteen years. They came to Cob
den in the spring of 1870. Mrs. Cowdery
died Feb. 49, 1874.
Her whole life was one of great ac-
tivity. She commenced teaching COM
mon school before she was IA years old
and continued in that employment until
her marriage In Chicago she was known
in many works of benevolence. For
seven years she devoted large share Of
her time to the temperance cause. Max.
ing the order of Good Templars the ba-
sis of her operations, she did vast
amount of personal work among those
whom only personal effort could reclaim.
At one time she held the office of R. w.
G. V. Templar of the National Lodge,
that being the highest office of the order
ever filled by woman. She had charge
of the Good Templar department of the
Sanitary fair and travelled a great deal
in its behalf la many other important
works was she well known in Chicago.
She taught night school under the aus
pices of the ID Unitarian society. She
was one of the first teachers in the Rail-
road sabbath school which was organized
in passenger cars, and when it was after
wards moved into commodious brick
building, she had with one assistant the
control of the infant class. To aid her
in the work of teaching children she had
remarkable voice we'll trained. Mrs.
Matteson was the only alto in Chicago
that could claim superiority, and she
was often engaged as salaried singer in
the d fferent churches of Chicago. 1t
was in view Of this activity of hand and
heart and voice in every good work that
the following remarks we're made at her
funeral by Mr.. Earle
Our friends life was among all the
pure and noble lives that are lived, sin
gularly characterized by earnestness in
the service of every interest of humanity.
1t may be said that the whole of her ma.
ture years have been given in the true
christian sense of self-sacrifice to the
education of the ignorant, the uplifting
of the downfallen, the healing of the
wounded in body and mind.
To this holy work she brought finely
cultivated powers, and heart baptized
with love from on high. There have
been few such earnest workers. There
have been ewwhose labor has been more
fruitful in the saving of perishing. The
many poor, weak and over-tempted men
and women whom her hand has led out
OF the gutter, and out of low and
wretched life, into straight and tighten
ed paths, will not soon see her like again.
Hers was
full, rich nature, free to trust,
Truthful and almost sternly just
lmpulsive, earnest, prompt to act,
And make her generous thought a fact,
Keeping with many a light disguise.
The secret of selfsacrifce.
o heart sore trial thou hast the best,
That Heaven itself could give thee-rest,
Rest from all anxious thoughts and things,
How many poor ones blessing went,
With thee beneath the low green tent
Whose curtain never outward swings.
For every true life SO nobly lived the
world is richer. Though the life of our
friend seems all too short, and for us sad
ly closed SO soon, yet how long must We
hope to live to accomplish so much hui
man good But so good life is not
ended. She will labor still in some great
cause. 1t cannot be that heart that
has beaten with so much love for her
friends, and for every human creature,
shall find no wide field of useful and
congenial labor in the great life that
opens before the emancipated spirit.
,,,Uplifted high in heart and hope are we,
Until we doubt not that for one so true,
There must be other, nobler work to do"
The AUToPsY.-An autopsy of the
body of Mr.. Sumner was held Monday
morning and proved that Dr. Sequard,
who has given Mr.. Sumner medical ad.
vice for years, had been entirely correct
10 his diagnosis of the disease which at