Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-05
Obi tuary.


tor of the Union House in this village,
dropped dead Of heart disease at O'Clock
on the morning of January LIST. He had
attended ball the previous evening at
Mortified and arrived home ON the 3 81
train, which was about an hour and thirty
minutes late and just as he reached the
house from the depot. in company with
Albert Sparrow aud two ladies of the
house, and stepped upon the veranda he
fell. He was Immediately picked up by
Mr. Sparrow and taken into the house,
but life was extinct when he was taken up.
He hal of late been troubled with heart
disease and had bad spell the previous
evening while at Mortified.
Mr.. Foster was born in Orange, Vt, on
November 4th, 1882. an was the youngest
of fourteen children of james and Electa
Foster. lie learned the trade of m ulder
in Compton, P. O.; was for several years
in the employ of the Swampscott Machine
Company in New Market. N. H.; the Bps-
ton & Maine railroad shops at Wakefield,
Mass. and afterwards for several years
foreman of the foundry department of
the Exeter Machine Company at Exeter.
N. H., from which place he moved to
Montpelier in December, 1861, and took
possession of the Union House Jan. LIST
1867. and purchased it some years after
wards. In connection with the hotel he
dealt largely in coal and wood, and also
carried on large farm purchased in Wor-
cester. He WAS also one of the street COM
missioners in this town for two year. Mr..
Foster was married January l, 1855, to
Miss Sarah J Palmer of New Market. N.
H., by whom he had one son, Mr.. Chas.
o. of this place.
Mr. Foster was an energetic business
man and hard worker, with an ambition
to keep u good hotel and to do well what
ever he undertook. The funeral was at
the Union House Tuesday afternoon at 3
o'clock. The Old Fellows, of which or 1eT
he was prominent member, attended in
body.
On Monday afternoon Mr.. Zebina c.
Camp, one of Montpelier's Oldest residents,
died after a long illness, aged seventy-six
years. Mr. Camp was born in Tunbridge,
VT, March, 1906, and was the eighth of
family of twelve children, all living to
an advanced age, and foar surviving the
subject of this notice. Three of his
brothers have died in less than twenty
months-Lyman G., in this town, in May,
1879, aged eighty four years. Ira, in New
port, December, 1879, aged eighty-three
years, and Charles, in California, in April,
1880, aged eighty one years. and sister,
Mrs. Nye, in Mortified, in April, 1878,
aged eghty-six years.
Mr.. Camp came to Montpelier in 1926,
and with the exception of some five years,
| has been continuous resident. His first
work in town was done upon the erection
of the Hubbard block, at the corner of
Main and STATE streets, which was built
was mostly spent as contractor, his
largest contracts being with the Vermont
Central, Vermont and Canada, and Great
Western railroads in their construction
from 1874 to 1858; and the docks at
Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, were among
other contracts, He was street commits
Ii: L., g.
going out of Office about three years ago
was sergeant-at-arms of this state for five
vears-irom 1865 to 1870.
Mr.. Camp was a man possessed of an
iron constitution, and met with severaI
severe accidents at different periods of his
, life. the most severe one of which was in
1876, when he was severely injured at a
f blast. on one of the lodges near Water
hurry, on the Central Vermont railroad
His last severe accident was in September
1876, when he was thrown from his runa-
way team, from which injuries he never
recovered.
Mr.. Camp was married in 1881 to Miss
Hannah Worcester, who died in 1912. He
was again married in 1916 to Miss Phillip,
= by whom he leaves son and daughter.
As public servant and citizen Mr.
! Camp was thorough and faithful in the
/ discharge of his duties. During the las
years of his life he was a constant reader
Of the Bible, and had accepted Christ al
his Savior.
4 Funeral services this afternoon at
h O'Clock, at the NJ. E. church.