Litchfield enquirer., 1881-08-25
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On Friday afternoon occurred the funeral of the late Frederick w. Gum. Principal of the Gunnery School. As the tiaie Set for the ser vice approached numbers of his old scholars, relatives, friends and towns people assembled at tue Guunery. The weather was bad, 8 steady though not heavy rain setting in. The procession was entirely on foot, led by the ibid boys," some thirty or forty of whom were in line. The present school followed, and then came the coffin, of oak, on wagon trimmed with vines and drawn by his we'll known pair of white horses. There followed long 4ine1of re latiyes and friends winding in front oT the church and occupying the laln body on entering.
 The organ (directly in the rear of the pull pit), the desk and surroundings, were tastefully trimmed with vines and wild flowers. A full choir was present. The services were con- ducted by Mir. Thrall, pastor of the church. who spoke in feeling terms of the manly, love- able character of the deceased, whom, in spite of his lack of Christian profession, he said he had always felt 10 be 8 better Christian than himself During the service the choir sang two hymns and chant in excellent taste, and at it's close, the procession, observing the same order as before, and increased by the immense congregation which had filled the large church, proceeded to the beautiful cemetery, for the improvement and adornment of which MT Gum had done so much in his lifetime. Here, in his family lot at the extreme northwest commanding a fine view of the valley, was the grave, lined with white cloth and edged with a broad border of flowers. After the coffin was lowered, and short prayer, the Doxology was sung. and the grave was strewn with flowers from the low hedge surrounding Then the concourse of people slowly dispersed, lingering here and there to look at the graves of their own dead in other parts of the beauti- ful yard
 Mir. Gum leaves a widow and a daughter, wife of MT. John c. Brinsmade, the present excellent principal of the Gunnery school. A son, very promising youth, died in 1865.
 The Gunnery School is to be continued with MT. John c. -Brinsmade, son in law of MT. Gum, and graduate of Harvard, as prin- cipal. He has practically held that position for two or three years past, Mir. Gum himself be- ing disabled from active business, and has The number of scholars that have been at the Gunnery since it's establishment as board. ing school in 1850 is 60S Of these Connecticut has furnished 259; New York, 225; New Jersey, 25; Massachusetts, 23; Pennsy 21; Ohio, IS; California, II; and Illinois, District of Columbia, Iowa, Florida, Indiana, England, Louisiana, Indian Territory, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Idaho, Alabama, Utah, Maine, and the Sandwich Islands the rest. H.
 We think that more than one hundred of MT. Gunn's former pupils attended his funer- al on Friday last; seven of them acted as pall- bearers. His death leaves great vacancy in town.
 More than forty years since we visited that great rock near Mrs. Preston Minors, South Norfolk, and had serious thoughts of put tiAS oui snoulucIs uuucE lt. I1du Wc uoue so where would H. N. have found It now ? There is another similarly situated in the West part of Litchfeld near the residence of MT. John Peters. We would suggest that H. N. give that trial.
 -Naaman Shepard of New Haven is stop- ping at MT. J. s. Titus; Augusta Smith, of Washington D O. ia in town. Miss Rahacca Smith has just returned from Italy and is with friends here; alse, Clarence and Eva M. omith of Birmingham.
 The friends of Mrs. Sarah J. Barnes have caused Telephone to be extended from her dwelling to the church. in order that she may join in the services of worship. S.