Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-10-27
Obituaries.


BRADy.-Reuben Brady, an old and esteemed
resident of West Ferrisburgh, died on Monday
last, aged about seventy-two years His death
occurred on the same farm where he was born
HALE.-The wife OF Mr.. c. NJ. Hale Of this
town died Tuesday morning at six o'clock.
Funeral services will be held Mt the house on
Thursday at one o'clock For two years Mrs.
Hale has been q great sufferer from a cancer,
from the effects of which she gradually wasted
away till death ended the sufferings medical skill
was powerless to alleviate.
NEEDHAM. in South Barre, on the 9Th
instant, at the residence Of her son, Daniel Need
ham, Mrs. Eleanor, relict Of the late Thomas
Needham Of Montpelier, aged ninety-two years
and three months Mrs. Needham was born in
Mount Vernon, New Hampshire, and came to
Montpelier with her husband in 1919. Soon
afterward she became member of the First Con.
gregational church of Montpelier, now Bethany
church, and for nearly sixty years honored hei
religious profession.
HowEs-Ded in Mortified, October oath, Ma
linda (Bennett) Howes, widow of Amos A. Howes
Esq, formerly Of Chelsea, Vermont, aged eighty
one years and ten months nearly. None can FL
better than did Mrs. Howes the measure of theii
life's duties She reared family Of ten children
to " rise up and call her blessed OF these, eight
survive her, and were privileged to wait upon hel
wants in the closing hours of her mortal life, and
to follow 1t to its final rest the WORKOUT broker
easement from which the stainless soul had es
capped, to meet in spirit life the loved ones
gone before.
PEcK.-ln Montpelier, on the oath instant o.
dropsy, Fanny Cutler, wife Of J. Quincy Peck
aged 10 years. The hand of disease had long lair
heavily upon her, but she bore all without muir
muir, and resolutely discharged her household du
| ties TO the last. Mrs. Peck was a native OF Mont
pelier, and was the last survivor OF her father
family Forty-eght years since she married Mr.
Peck, and it may emphatcally be said that Solo
mons description of a vrtuous woman has sci
dom had more literal fulfllment than in he
subsequent life az wife and mother. With grea
decision of character she combined conscientious
ness of purpose; hence the Christian profession
which she made prior to marriage was to he
not merely sentiment, but q rule of life, and sh'
never faltered in her Christian course till tn,
Master called her to lay her earthly BURDEN
down. For at least fifty years she was a conss
tent member of Bethany church.
CHILD.-Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, one of tn,
oldest and best known of American women o
letters died at Wayland, Massachusetts,, on tn,
morning of the Goth inst. Her anti-savery writ
ings are among the best known in that depart
ment Of American literature, and exercised
great influence in developing those sentiment
and principles that ultimately crystalized in tn
birth of the Republican party She was distin
guished by the muuifcence, in comparison witt
her means, with which she contributed pecuniar,
help to the soldiers of the Union during the war
and afterward to the freedmen She leaves
very honorable name, not only as an agreeabl
and earnest writer, but as the benefactress Of tn
poor and the helper of the wretched, made so b,
their own wrong-doing- who, as Lowell sal,
| in his "Fable for Critics"