Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-04-02
WEST CORNWALL.

VIII +. Taylor and wife of Whiting
visited at \. s. Bingham's and IL. f. lay
lor's last Thursday and Friday.
Fred Deane and bride are home from
their trip and nearly settled in their new
home.
1t is warm spring weather. The birds
are singing, nearly all the early ones be-
ing represented. Wood piles are being
cut and all odd jobs attended to prepare
tory to springs work.
School meeting passed of in the usual
manner-some pleased and some not G..
Il. Dimmock is prudential committee.
The other officers are the same as years
before.
A few weeks since we were asked to
notice the death of Mrs. Abijah Abbott,
former resident of this place and sister
of o. \. Field and now the news comes
of the death of her husband. the subject
of the following sketch. Mr.. Abbott
was, in his younger days, clerk for Asa
Chapman of Middlebury, father of G.. G..
Chapman of that place. Mr. Abbott also
travelled through this part of the State
selling monuments, ETC., as he was an
extensive dealer in marble, owning an
interest in the business in Sudbury. He
was also in business in Weybridge with
a brother of Mrs. Grin Field. ST. Doubt
less he will be well and kindly remcm-
bered by many old friends in these seve-
raj places. y stranger to us, we have
only these facts to add to what has al
ready been said by those who knew him
better than any here; knowing him in
his home life and in the long sickness
through which he has passed, they were
better able to judge the man, and he was
weighed in the balance and not found
wanting:''
ABBOTT.-In this city, (Madison, Wis., at
his home on Main street. in the Fourth ward,
Tuesday afternoon, March 49, lss6 Abiiah Abb
bott in the 18th year of his age.
The death of Abiiah Abbott, who de-
parted this life yesterday afternoon, at
his home on West Main street. removes
one more of the few now remaining who
established themselves in Madison before
Il locomotive had here been seen. He
followed hither his brother Chaunccv,
long so prominent Il lawyer, legislator
and university regent. and who, pushing
still further West, died in Nebraska four
teen years ago. The nature of Mr.. Alb
bolts business brought him into a tender
relation, at some time, to most of our cit
liens, and none can fail to remember him
with respect and regard. For two years
past he has been sought in vain at his
place of business. but hundreds have seen
him, at least with the minds eve, on his
bed of languishing. They have followed
him with sympathy and pity and prayer,
in his chronic intirmity. So long as his
wife survived, they thanked God that
such an incompatible nurse sat at his
bedside. When she died their hopes, and
his hope as well, died with her. They
felt that those who had been lovely to
each other all their lives, ought not in
death to be long divided. He survived
her less than two months. His ''falling
asleep was tender mercy. Mr.. Alb
bolt, sprung from an old Connecticut
stock,was born in Cornwall, VT, Sept.
%, 1871. His life before coming West
was spent either there, or in the neigh
boring towns of Mddlebury and sud
bury. Belonging to lOngevtarian fam
lily, though struck down prematurely
and forced to cling to his couch for two
years, life always hanging in doubt be-
fore him-his Christian patience and res
ignation were not of this world =