The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-17
A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE.
Mra. Rvland Thatcher.

The people of Proctorsville appreciate
the just, appropriate and timely editorial
notice In The GLOBE of the death OF Mrs
Governor Fletcher. When the good die a
community mourn, and 1t Is benefit to
the living to remember the virtues OF the
departed that their example may be EN-
balmed in the hearts Of those who yet on
earth remain. In such esteem do we hold
your words, when you say sho was "a du-
tiful wife, kind mother, and christian
woman" Allow us to add word and
saw that she was devoted, generous and
sincere friend, kind to the poor, correct
and consistent in all her professions, and
though modest in her pretentions, was
lady of no ordinary requirements in liter
AZURE especially was che familiar with the
writings of religious authors in prose and
verse.
In the quiet of last Sabbath her neigh
bors and friends gathered at the family
mansion to attend to the last sad rites of
her burial. The public would have been
better accommodated at the church, but in
obedience to her oft expressed wish in life,
the funeral services were conducted in
more quiet manner. And yet the numbers
who gathered there around the casket COW
cred with flowers and wreaths, woven by
thehands of love, were told by hundreds.
Although living and dying in the creed OF
the Baptist branch of the christian church,
since the Rev. p. M. Frost has been here
as the pastor of the Methodist society, with
her husband she has attended on his minis
trations, and it seemed most appropriate
for him by cordial invitation from the gov
ernor, and her only son that he should re-
turn from his new charge at Putney and
conduct the services. He was assisted in
the reading of the scripture lessons by the
Rev. s. F. Brown of the Baptist church,
and addressed the large audience from a
text selected from LIST chapter, 2lst verse
Epistle to the Philippians
"For me to live is Christ, and to die is GAIN"
An epitome of the youthful clergyman's
appropriate remarks is not required for
publication, but they we're of the kind, and
in the manner expressed, to do justice to
the dead and to benefit and bless the living.
And then, when all was done-when the
choir under the lead of A. s. Burbank had
sang "The sweet Bye and Bye" and,
when the last look at the sacred dust had
been taken-and old friends and neighbors
had shed the parting tear of sorrow-we
followed with slow and mournful foot
steps" the funeral train to the church yard
and there consigned all that is mortal of
this good woman to the keeping of the
grave.
Mrs. Mary Ann Fletcher was the daugh-
Their of the late Eleazer May, of Westmins-
ter, and began life 10 that quiet, good old
town of historic fame 70 years months
and ~ days ago on the 18th inst. She
leaves to mourn her death an only son,
Henry Fletcher, ESQ.,, (having buried chill
drcn heretofore) one brother, James, of
Westminster, and three sisters-the widow
of the late Rev. Doctor Horace Fletcher of
Townshend, Mrs. Nancy Butterfield and
Mrs. Julia Hoyt, of Palmyra, New York.
On the 18th of June 1920, she was mar
ried by the Rev. Mr.. Sage at Westminster,
to Ryland Fletcher, the fifth and youngest
(and now the only surviving) son of the
late DR.. Asapb Fletcher, of Cavendish,
and has resided here forty-seven years.