Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-07-12
OBITUARY


Hiram {. J5ue, was boru in Tunbridge'
VI. on May ltih. 1854. His parents
removed TO Barre, VI. when be was zen
rears OF age. Here be resided until his
manhood, and on November Sd, ls61. was
married To Cornelia +. Heed, also OF Bare
Immediately following his marriage, he
look up his residence in WilliamstoWn'
there four years, when he re-
turned to Barre and on November lllh'
1861. removed to the place on when ne {
afterwards resided for the remainder oil
his life. q
His early life was in circumstances oil
small possessions, and on completing bis
majority be entered upon the field oil llies
battles with nothing but his mere personal
effects az his own. DE- frugallty and IN
dustry be soon became able 10 possess his
own home, and eventually on purchasing
hi, farm in Barre was able 10 hold il with L
some incumbrance. Ia addition 10 MS
farm work he also engaged in the purchase
Of stock. and was accustomed to take Two
or t rec carloads yearly to the Boston
market. In time he also engaged in the
purchase Of horses for friends in Massa'
chusetts. and also in the buying Of butter
and OF poultry 10 sell in Boston or other
markets. In this he was quite successful,
having acquired a popular reputation as
an upright and strictly honorable dealer
both in buying and selling, and, with his
brother-in. law as partner. carried on
business of considerable extent in this di'
rection. In his prosperity be was also
liberal and sympathetic 10 all bis assocl'
ates in life, and By his kindness of manner
to his neighbors and acquaintances, espe-
cially to those in need, became very much
endeared to all His early religious asso'
Citations were with the Congregational
church. but in the year 1857 he became an
incidental attendant upon the preaching oil
Rev. Lewis Hill, then the pastor OF the
Methodist church in Barre. Here he be
came, with his wife, interested in religious
truths rs never before, and on February
%, 1868, both Joined the class in that
church on probation. Ga August 23ih,
1868, both were baptized by Rev. Joshua
Gill, who also received them into full
membership in the Methodist Episcopal
church ut Barre, on April llth, 1869.
Bro. Jones was habitually an attendant
at the Sunday school and in April
| 1873, became a teacher, and retained his
class during his life. On September IAN,
| 1878. he became 4 steward in the church,
which position he also retained during his
lite. In every position of trust and of
duty, lie was a most useful man, always
willing and always ready to assist with
bis money in generous contributions and
! 10 help with his hands in the hard work
of the occasions of necl. Always a man
of true loyalty to the church, and of faith
| fol devotion 10 its interests, he filled a
large place of usefulness which we never
realized the extent of until it became va
can't
In the prime Of his useful aud noble
| Christian manhood he had occasion 10 go
to Gloucester, Mass, with some borses
which he had purchased and some which
he kep, in charge for friends in that place.
ION the morning of May Sth, 1882, he left
his home at an early hour, with the under
standing that his wife was to meet him at
East Montpelier on Friday, when he ex'
pected 10 re urn. Having five valuable
horses under bis charge, be rode in the car
With them. going via, Wells River anC
, Plymouth, Y. Il. All proceeded in safety
) TO Plymouth, when the train dispatcher
! upon the Boston, Concord and Montrea
] railroad gave the conductor OF the stool
. train his orders to meet the up passenger
train at "Fogg's station which is be
I tween Ashland and Merideth village. A
B.. dispatch was then sent to the conductor 0
= the passenger train 10 meet the stool
freight at Fogg'S, and No. - at Plymouth.
B7 some error the dispatch was received
+. with the omission Of two vital words, an
+. read: Meet the stock freight and No. ?
at Plymouth" This dispatch was repeat
, ed back TO the train dispatcher, as require
/. bv the rules Of the road, and it was hi
= duty 10 examine and correct errors, but i
/ fatal confidence he failed to read the re
turn message. and on being informed c
# its return answered 80. X. to the cor
i duclor of the passenger train. The inev
+. liable result was the collision Of the train
!. and Bro. Jones, riding in the forward c
:. of the heavy stock train of twenty-fou
# loaded cars, rushing upon q downwar
a grade and beyond the control of the Ell
IS gineer when the coming collision Wa
:. made apparent, was one Of the innocel
O victims of the fatal neglect of a momentar
Y duty. None but God can know whethe
: he knew of his danger or not, for n
Y person was then with him in the car, bu
o IL WAS al oNel III JUG otIoi lAOiH0ut
terrible disaster. The two locomotive
fell together upon one side of the trac
while both tenders fell upon the other sid
g. both being overturned and that OF Il
v passenger locomotive on the other. Undo
D. The bottom tender the body of our BROTH
k was found, not greatly mangled, but vii
v. the mark of one terrible and prepaid
re swift blow upon his left temple. by whiC
ID his life was eviyently taken without b
in conscious ppreciaton that he received Il
IN dow. e. MS FACE was P'aeal anu ~, c",n