News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
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CHESTER W. WARD


When the hasty notice was made OF
this mans death in Johnson, May Goth.
there was a promise given of a more eX-
tended review of his life. But as the
one on whom, it seems, dependence was
placed to prepare the article, went away
immediately, the matter was delayed
till now. Yet nothing is lost for a
life that remains savory in all memory.
will bear to be noticed later on.
Chester Wright Ward was born in
DuXbury, VT, September 10th, 1889. He
married Miss Amelia A. Joslin of Waits
field, VT, Feb. 10, 1868, and located in
hood on the farm and at common school.
academy, and a few years. training in a
store, in 1867. He went quietly about
his work, aiming to do a business safe
for himself and all with whom he dealt.
In this, few succeed as well. The heart
felt tribute he paid to others who were
rivals in business, and taken before him,
was a sign of the honorable methods of
his business; and that he was above
envy. Five years ago, the writer, on a
journey in a distant county, stopped for
a night at a hotel. After writing his
residence in the register, the landlord
became very inquisitive about the stand
ing and success of Mr.. Ward. AT last
he said, "Chester began in my store.
He was a boy; [ soOn found that when
he said he had cared for a thing, 1 did
not need to look after it. IeXpected the
best things of him as a man; am glad
not to be disappointed" In November,
1880, he Was forced to yield to a most
painful rheumatic disease that held him
to the last. Every known remedy was
tried, in vain. Words can give no ex-
preston of his sufferings. A single joint
dislocated suddenly, is painful. But let
the process of diSlocatiOn be going on
for six years, with no intermission for
an hour, and let the one joint be multi
piled by scores, and we have suffering
that is agony. There must be soreness
of the flesh and tendons that cringes at
the weight of a breath of air. This may
hint at what he endured. Those who
"a him much, had all their notions of
the pain possible to a human being,
of grace. He had no desire for public
life. But a long-suffering public, who
get tired of being bought and sold by the
office seekers, will honor themselves and
public office, o and then, by looking
out some such man for places of honor
and trust. He had just been chosen,
when disabled by illness, to sit beside
the Judge in county court. Other places
of Importance and dignity must have
awaited MIN. Ills was largely the spirit,
that for its own safety, must be in a
republic, namely: that all office must
be candidate for the man, not the man
for the office. In society and church,
and the choir that loved him as it's leader
so long, he was one who saw what
needed to be done, and saw the best way
to do it; leading off himself, often in a
way to shun all notice. AS head of a
family, he was everything to them as
long as life lasted, even when for months
many and long, he could move no muscle
of body or limb, the fraction of an inch.
He thought out everything for his home,
and the community he loved to serve,
To say that such a man is missed is
uttering nothing of what is felt. We
say, How can we get along without
Rather let us say, "How much
better can we get along now that he has
been with us, to depend upon, so long ~
for every child, who knew him, as wei
three of his own home, can but
feel and transmit the Influence of his
character for good. Wemust not muir
mur that he is taken, but bless Almighty
God, who alone gives and %sustains such
quiet and retiring but noble lives on this
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