The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-04-04
MRS. O. II. CARPENTER.

Inc IOliOWlng. from the pen OF gen.
tleman in Washington. has been handed
us for publication:
You have heard of the death of Mrs.
Carpenter, widow of the late Otis 81.
Carpenter, of Manitowoc. She died at
the residence of her only remaining
daughter, Mrs. Sherman Platt, on the
9th Of March, and was buried by the
side of her two daughters. Mary and
Hattie, IN the Congressional Cemetery.
To all who retain recollections of Mrs.
Carpenter during her residence in Man
itowoc; of her hospitable and happy
home with its unbroken family circle; of
her readiness to aid in every good worL,
charitable or social; of her sympathy
and comfort for all those who were in
''trouble. sorrow, need, sickness. or any
other adversely the knowledge OF her
death will come with a weight of sad
ness and regret.
To those who knew her in her western
home, and kept up an unbroken intimacy
in Washington, there is keener and far
more realizing sense of grief.
The life of Mrs. Carpenter was beau
tiful life; beautiful in it's simplicity and
the commences of her good deeds; beau
tiful in the discharge of daily duties
which she imposed upon herself beau
tifuI in her love and devotion to her
children; and her long illness was
beautiful example of patience and of
christian courage; and her death was
beautiful exemplification of faith, aud
hope, and trust.
She had known for months that her
end was not far off, but her approach to
it was very gradual. Each day denoted
diminution of her strength, while
friends watched beside her and waited
for the expected hour that would Gber-
ate her spirit that longed for reunion
with the loved ones who had gone be-
fore. She was conscious and intelligent
to the latest hour, and when strength
and speech failed her, she indicated by
a single word her desire to have repeated
the beautiful hymn
Jesus, Saviour of my soul,
Let me to Thy bosom fly
and when that was done the glory Of the
future was revealed to her.
When Hattie died, only three months
since, Mrs. Carpenter was helpless in
valid, but the certainty that she would
soon rejoin her beloved child sustained
her during The Intervening hours Of
waiting and WEAKNESS.
She lived to survive her husband and
all her children save one. She lived to
enjoy the unre;aitting love and devotion
of that one, and to leave a mothers
blessing and love as the dearest and
most priceless legacy that q child can
inherit. And that one true heart has
this thought to comfort and sustain her
that there is not an angel added to the
Host II Heaven but does it's blessed
work on earth in those that loved it here
We clip the following items from the
Chronicle: Sam Stone, the light house
keeper on the point is again down with
his old complaint. -. E. Sanville, of
this village, had foot badly crushed,
the other day, by a falling block Of ice,
while loading a vessel with that COM
modify. Mr.. B. T. Richter, OF this
city. contenplates visiting his old home
ic. COLI
that corn from the wrecked Magellan is
still to be found in considerable quanti-
ties strewn along. the beach between
here and the lighthouse. L. Truet
ner, of Two Greeks, has bought out the
Jones Bros, of Montfort, on the West
ern Road, and viii take possession i'm
mediately The present price of fish
is SO low az to almost render fishing at
this point improbable. Indeed, if
there is not an advance soon in the
price of fish, many OF our fishermen
will give their attention to other en-
pigments. John Shier is making
the necessary preparations for putting
up large anu Di1CA
dwelling house upon his farm, located
between this place and Mishicott -.
Mr. John I{andreth, of this county. is
contracting with largo number OF our
farmers to grow several thousand bush
els of a choice variety of garden peas,
the seed for which he furnishoa.