Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-08-02
OBITUARY.

De@Gn OF MRS. hOV0ys uOther Oh new
HI. G. HOveys Formerly OF Fair
Concerning the lamented Mrs. Hovey, wife
mother of Rev. DR.. H. G.. Hovey, now of
Minneapolis, Mimi, and much esteemed ex-
pastor of the Second Congregational church,
Fair Haven, the Saturday Evening Journal
of Charlottesville, Indiana, has an extended
and appreciative obituary. The deceased
lady resided with her son Rev. Mr. Hevey
in Fair Haven for three years following the
death of her husband, who died in 1876. The
sketch in the Charlottesville paper will be
found of interest to many in Fair Haven and
in this city generally and is as follows: Last
week we briefly noticed the death of this
estimable lady, and now give ada tional
facts of interest. Mrs. Hovey was born in
Peacham, Vermont, December 10, 1909, and
died in this city on the 18th of July, 1886;
her age being exactly ssventy-six years and
seven months. Her father, Ezra Carter,
Esq, was principal of the Peacham Acade-
my, and her mothers maiden name was Ellis
worth, both of them representing old colonial
families. At the early age of six years she
gave clear evidence of conversion and Joined
the Congregational church when eight years
old under the ministry of Rev Leonard Wor-
cester. Thus for seventy years she has been
a recognized child of God, and for sixty-eight
years an enrolled member of the church Her
education was mainly received in a seminary
at Middletown, Conn. Her acquaintance
with Prof. E. o. Hovey, D. D., began while
the latter student of Dartmouth col
lege, and their correspondence while he was
studying theology at Andover, Mass, reveals
the fact that her fervent zeal for the West
decided him to devote himself to the cause
of religious education in Indiana. 1t is stated
that she also gave him his first decided i'm
pulse toward the study of the natural sciences
in which he afterwards became so eminent an
instructor: and that her collection of min
erals gathered in girlhood formed the nucleus
of the cabinet of Wabash college, still head
ing the list in the catalogues of specimens in
what is now appropriately called the 'Hovey
Museum"
Professor and Mrs. Hovey were married
October S, 1881, and at once started for the
Mississippi Valley, proceeding in very
leisurely manner by the primitive modes of
conveyance known in those days. After
spending a fortnight at Detroit, they
cended the Maumee river in ''pirogue,"
and were guests for three weeks in an
Indian village while waiting for an ox-team
to take them across to the Wabash river
which they descended in keel-boat. Their
first settlement was on Coal creek, in Foun-
tain county, which they reached December
81, about three months after leaving Yer
mont. Life in log cabin was full of
novelty and adventure, and they always re-
ferred to their two years of home missionary
work in that locality with peculiar
pleasure. Professor Hovey was one of the
founders of Wabash college, in the latter
part of 1882, and his duties soon required
him to remove to Charlottesville. The FAM
lily for some time resided in what was known
as ''the old brick house" but in 1887, forty
nine years ago, they built and moved into
Ia VrrlNI rkorra HOW a,-oI
grapevines and on the margin of the campus,
where for SO many happy and useful years
they had their home. The matrons of those
early days were no less influential than their
honored husbands. Together they prayed
and toiled for college and church.
Those who knew Mrs. Hovey only in her
declining years as quiet, retiring lady,
laden with infrmities and leaning on the
arm of her faithful and loving daughter, can
hardly realize with what vigor, activity and
decision she did her full share in shaping
and developing the educational, social and
religious character of this community
Many a man who has since been honored in
public life would gladly testify to the aid
she gave him in his youth by her wise ad-
vice, timely encouragement or her motherly
consolation.
For three years following the death of her
husband, in 1875, Mrs. Hovey made her home
with her son, Rev. Horace G. Hovey, D. D.,
then living in New Haven, Conn, bat now
of Minneapolis. Six years ago she returned
to Charlottesville, occupying the old home
stead in company with her only daughter,
Miss Mary F. Hovey. She was member of
the Presbyterian church, from the time of
her marriage, and was one of the original
members of the Center church in this city.
Her two brothers died in early manhood. A
sister, Mrs. Martha White, wife of President
White, died number of years ago. One sister
survives, namely, Mrs. Emily Foord, of Caz-
enovia, N. Y. Besides her son and daughter
already spoken of, mention should be made
of Mrs. Eliza Bassett, now residing in Cali
fornia, who was brought up from childhood
as an adopted member of the family. Others
for shorter periods were the favored inmates
of that Christian household. The best lega-
cy of such "mother in Israeli is the mem |
DRY and influence of her pious example, salu-
tary counsels and prevailing prayers, which |
will long be treasured, not only by her chill
dren and grandchildren, but by hundreds of
the students and alumni of Wabash college
and others here and elsewhere whom she has
during her long and eventful career sought to
win for righteousness and heaven.