The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-03-19
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The summons from earth to HEAVIER
is always sudden and startling, not
withstanding the fact that the call
may have been long anticipated
Such was the case with the people OF
Owosso, when on Thursday morning
Of last week they were informed that
the invalid, but fond and devoted
wife of Hon. +. ID. Dewey had been
stricken with paralysis and probably
could not survive many hours.
Mrs. Dewey for many years, in
fact, substantially all her life, had
been an invalid. When about seven
years of age, she was stricken down
with spinal difficulties, and for nine
years was in bed unable TO help her
self in the least, often not able TO
raise her hand to her head. She was
an orphan, her parents having died
when she was about five years of age,
and her home was with her cousin
and guardian, the late Hon. Amos
Gould, who treated her as daughter
and extended to her all possible care
and attention. Her maiden name
was Philena Simmonds Gould, and
she was born ir Cayuga county, N.
Y, in 1921. On the removal of Judge
Gould to Owosso in IS43, Miss Gould,
attended by her cousin, afterward
Mrs. E. Barnes, of Owosso, was sent
to the sea shore in Connecticut, where
she remained until lS45, when she
returned to western New York, where
Mr.. Dewey first met her. During her
stay i'm Connecticut her health had
materially improved, and soon after
she came to the home Of her guardian
in Owosso, where, on the 10th of
April, IS4o, she was married to Mr..
Dewey.
After her marriage her health con.
tinued to improve and for some years
she was able to take charge of her
home. cultivate her beautiful flower
garden, and do the shopping for the
home circle. Some sixteen years
since she was attacked with neural
lgia in its most severe form, from
which she suffered seriously for a long
time, since which time she has not
been able to walk, but has moved
about in her wheeled chair as her
strength would permit.
Shut out by her physical condition
from the busy scenes factive social life
she became an accomplished scholar,
and was Thoroughly versed in the liter
ature Of both ancient and modern
times, and with ordinarily good health
would have stamped her name IN en-
during characters among the noted
ladies of our country For many
years she has been noted for the
elegance and taste displayed in her
handwork on exhibition at the county
and other fairs, the execution of which
engaged her thought and attention
to the day Of her last attack. In all
her invalid days she has had the kind
est care and attention from fond and
loving ends, and an ever indulgent
and devoted husband, who never
faltered in his efforts to make her life
rich with all possible joys. She was
stricken with paralysis about four
o'clock last week Thursday morning,
and it soon became apparent that
her work on earth was done. And yet,
as Clarke w. Bryan so beautifully
expresses it in his poem "The Seen
and The Unseen," which she loved
so we'll:
There were watchers by the bedside,
And silence in the room;
There was morning light and shadow.
From night of troubled gloom;
There hearts akin to breaking;
There were souls bowed down with grief
There were drinkings deep from sorrows cup
In moments all too brief.
There were farewells sad and tender,
In whispers soft and low
There were waitings for the Messenger
Of measured step and slow;
There were earthly warfares ending;
There was cease from worldly strife:
There were mortals made immortal,
There was death and endless life.
There watchers by the bedside,
Whose forms we might not see;
There spirit voices chanting
In sweetest melody.
There was Morning light upbreaking
Into Everlasting Day,
When the watchers and our dear one
went up the heavenly way
And at about two o'clock on Sat-
urday afternoon she mounted the
golden stairs to the realms of ever
lasting day, leaving behind her a
monument of fillial devotion that is
worthy of imitation.
The funeral services were held at