The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-29
Mrs. William Howk.

Charlotte f. Herrick was born at
Tyringham, Mass, in July 1906, and
died at Wellington, o., May 10th, 1879.
Her father Col. Herrick, moved to the
adjoining town of Lee, and here she
spent her girlhood and early married
life. She was u playmate and school
mate Of William Howk until she be-
came his wife in 1880.
Those who remember her younger
womanhood, say that the acquaintances
of her later years would scarcely be able
to understand that one SO grave and
impenetrable in her reserve, had be en-
in youth remarkable for her vivacity
and exuberance of spirit. She sang
clear and beautiful alto, her voice being
we'll cultivated in its day, and she was
for years q member of the choir In the
Presbyterian Church at Lee, Of which
Rev. DIR. Hyde, Pres. of Williams Col
ege, was pastor. During this time DR..
Mott of Boston, an evangelical preacher
of great power, labored in a revival
there, and the subject of this notice
was happily converted She united
with the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and continued q devoted member until
her death, a period OF at least fifty
years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howk lost their only
child, daughter grown to woman
hood, and one who was "the pride of
her familiar sphere-the daily joy of
all who in the light and music Of her
way, had companions portion"
To both parents it was a terrible
blow. The bereft mother was thence
forth broken in spirit and sad woman.
With health impaired and her nervous
system greatly shocked, she was not
physically able to enjoy going into so.
ciety, or to divert her mind with the
extended hospitalities that would have
brought compensations of cheerfulness
to her heart and home.
Her husband, with his uninterrupted
health, business enterprises and closer
relations with the outside world, found
in them sources of consolation. that
helped him to regain the elasticity of
spirit that bereaved women in their
more secluded lives often fail to recover.
Mrs. Howk was too sensible and we'll
balanced in mind to be edemonstrably un-
happy, complaining or obtrusive in her
grief. She did not affiict others with
her lamentations, or let the shadow OF
her loss extend farther than she could
help; but her spiritual life grew to
dominate over all other interests, and
to self-examination and religious cul-
ture she gave supremest care.
The Bible was her daily study, and
if one found her at leisure, it was most
frequently with the open word upon
her lap, commentaries close at hand, or
such helps to spicitual guidance as
Eaxter's Saints Rest, the Guide to Ho-
Illness, or other religious books. There
was no ostentation about her religion,
but thst sue had unusual taste for and
enjoyment I'm these things, no one who
knew her habits in her home-life could
fail to observe.
To be admitted to her confidence
, and friendship was to find hers an in
telligent mind, sympathetic heart, ,
deeply devotional nature, with the in
st'ncts and principles that belong Il
good women; who have no occasion fo
pretense, or subterfuge, or anything be
/ yond direct simplicity of c-ntluct sn'
character. Her husband fully recog
nized this, and on his death bed, wheI
Z some business matters which he ha'
E not strength to arrange were spoken OF
' he referred them to his wife, saying
t "She will do right with whatever
Q entrusted to her."
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