The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-11-27
gu Nennrian1.
"We'll join the everlasting song,
And crown him Lord of ALL"

In Toledo, o., Nov. ID, 1886, Mrs. d. E.
Martin, aged so years and months. She
was the last member of the family of Jep-
thalo and Sarah Lawrence, pioneers of Huron
county, o., and faithful member of the
Universalist church for large portion of her
long life. Mrs. Martin was woman of
deep religious character and pure and good
in all the relations of life. Her remains
were deposited beside those of her first hus-
band, Comfort Eaton, in Peru, o.
DR.. Thomas Hyde was born April IA, 1903,
near Manchester, England, and came to
America in the fall of 1889. He was married
to Esther Hall, Feb. %, 1912, and shortly af-
terward settled on farm in Franklin coun-
ty, Ind, six miles south of Mt. CARMEL where
he died Nov. 8, 1886, aged 70 years, 6 months
and 20 days. DR.. Hyde was the oldest ply
stefan in the county, and was one of those
as to religious belief, on the line with Abra-
ham Lincoln: SIT must be everybody or no.
body" He was an affectionate husband,
loving father, kind and generous neighbor
He was the father of twelve children, and
leaves widow, six sons and daughter, with
large circle of friends to mourn his depart
ure. He was buried from the Mt. Carmel
church, Nov. IL, the writer officiating May
the blessed hope of all meeting in the home
immortal, comfort all that mourn, especially
the aged widow who is nearing the threshold
to joys ineffable. "Be ye reconciled to God"
l.. j. SPENCER.
(Manford's Magazine please copy.)
At Hillsdale, Mich, Nov. 8, 1886, aged 81
years and 1 month, Martha Dawley Avery,
widow of the late VIM. w. Avery. The de-
ceased was born in Herkimer county, N. Y,
Oct. 8, 1893. In 1929 she was married to her late
husband, with whom she removed the same
year to Tecumseh, Mich, following an Indian
trail through the wilderness from Detroit to
her new home in the almost unbroken forest
which covered the site of the present city of
Tecumseh.. The story of her personal brav-
cry and hardships incident to pioneer life has
often been told. The deceased was noted
for her industry, hospitality and practical
liberality in dispensing to others the COM
forts which untiring diligence and frugality
had brought to her store. Both herself and
husband were warm friends of the Univers-
alist church, and the parish at Hillsdale hold
in grateful remembrance the generosity of
the deceased. Though having more than re-
allied the allotted threescore and ten, her
mental vision was undimmed to the last mo-
ment of the struggle with the dreadful dis
ease which terminated her life. Her sore
affection was borne with most heroic COM
posure of mind. On the 10th of November
the funeral services were held at her late resi-
dence, according to her request, by the un-
dersigned. The remains were inferred in the
dale. W. f. DIoKERMAN.
Brinson W. Slocum, of West Union, passed
on to the higher life, Thursday, November 4.
He was born in Greenfield, Saratoga county,
N. Y, Nov. Is, 1909, and spent the earlier
years of his life in that State. In 1S43 he
came West and settled in Lake county, near
Chicago, where he remained eleven years.
Emigration was setting westward, and in
1854 he decided to remove with his family to
Fayette county, Iowa, where he made for
himself home, and where he has resided
until his death. For the last six years of his
llfe he has been great snnerer, but has
borne his suffering with Christian resigna-
ton. All who knew him bear testimony to
the uprightness of his daily life and the sweet
ness of his spirit. In early life he connected
himself with the Methodist church, but the
thought and study of later years led him to
the acceptance of our faith. In it he found
an inspiration for the strong and beautiful
passing through the valley of the shadow.
The funeral services we're conducted by the
writer on Monday, Nov. s, in the Presbyteri-
an church, West Union, where large num-
Der of friends and neighbors gathered to pay
their last sad tribute of respect, and bear
testimony to the wide spread esteem in which
he was held. war.