News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-16
OBITUARY.
MRS. HATTIE Z. CAMPBELL.

MRS. HATTIE Z. CAMPBELL.
The sudden death of Mrs. Camp
bell, wife of Prof. Campbell, of the
Normal School at Johnson, on Fri
dav last casts a gloom over the entire
village, and also extending to many
and intermediate parts of the
the town and county. Mrs. Campbel"s
intimate acquaintance with every grad
uate from the school for the past four
Years; her labors in the Woman'S
Christian Temperance Union, which
commenced after Prof. C~ampbelps 10
cation herc-and did noL cease; her
prominence and power in Sunday
school interests at home and in the
County Convention, call for an eX-
tended notice of her early life and re-
cent service in the promotion of re
ligion, education and temperance.
Hattie E. Winchester was oorn in
Westport, Mass, in 1849. When
two years old she lost her mother. A
few years later an ideal conception of
that friend began to form in the child's
mind soon the ideal became a salts
factory reality and was cherished with
inexpressible tenderness by Mrs.
| Campbell till the hour of heI death.
At sixteen she commenced teaching in
the public schools, and at the same
time became an eager, willing learner
in the school of Jesus Christ. Two
wears later she began the Normal
course at B~ridgewater, Mass, fur
nishing the funds for its completion
considerably by her own personal ef-
forts. The following seven years she
taught continuously, most of that
tame having charge of q primary room
,of sixty pupils in Fall River. 10 1877
she vas married to A. H. Campbell,
and for nearly two years assisted him
as a teacher in the Kingston, N. H.,
Academy. Then followed five years in
her quiet home in Ashburnham, Mass.
During all those years she was an
interchangeable worker in every good
; Il recognized but unobtrusive
pillar of strength in the Sunday
school in her early home, although
several miles stretched between her
Sabbath school room and her house.
The routine work and responsible
ty for the school concerts and other
public exercises, and the nerve-wear-
ing duties of the primary classroom,
were oy her ~cheerfully assumed.
Many of those then boys and girls,
now to men and women grown, have
Of late cheered her with thanks be-
slowed and blessings craved. In 1884
Prof. Campbell took charge Of our
Normal School. If any OF Mrs.
Campbelps intimate friends had been
asked to name her specially. they
would with one accord have said, TO
make a charming home for her family
and to extend hospitality and smiling
welcomes TO friends. and to al! the
students of the school. Barring sex,
the expressive lines of Burns:
ITO make a happy freside cline
For wean AMI wife,
That's the true pathos and sublime
OF human life"
was by her daily illustrated : and yet
domestic cares, with the delights and
duties of the nursery did not prevent
her carrying largely the burdens Of the
Union of which she was President {;
for four years teaching with an assO-
ciate a primary Sabhath-school class
of thirty-nine of being the soul and
head of the Loyal Legion, and shar-
ing in the performances of mncl Of the
extra work of Prof. Camphelfs school
life. Few of the many who listened
to her recent paper on primary Sab
bath-school Work" will soon forget it.
1t was not theory pure and simple.
vii of practice.
l. Graduates to whom were assigned
original essays and orations, found in
her a friend in need no examining,
hut well considered hints and cheerful
encouragement. Reared a Methodist.
and joining soon after marriage the
Congregational church, she was intel
ligently loyal to each in turn yet in
all senses denominational lines were
to her and for her like those of lati-
tnde and longitude to the navigator
invisible and unreal. The sacrifice,
the recorded words and the self-deny-
ing life Of the Nazarine were to her
the sum, substance and circumference
of the Christian religion. She refer
red to the Saviour with reverent fa-
miliarity, as she would speak of an
older brother whom she loved and
trusted. Sermons in stones and
books in running BROOKS" so Mrs.
Campbelps methods of speech and
everyday work often betrayed some
trait, and had about them an odor
that told of a wealth of coloring and
an abundance of fragrance hidden
away out of sight.
When Abraham Lincoln died strong
men cried in public places. When
Mrs. Campbelrs great white soul went
Heavenward from its w%ork-worn tene-
nent men, to whom she could haye
seldom spoken, with moistened yves
looked the other way as they met her
intimate friends with sorrow shroud-
ed faces on the street. With mind
~unclouded, with a vision so clear that
both worlds were seen with self-fol-
g%etfulness unsurpassed, she made the
closing hours of her life an epoch in
the experience of those privileged to
stand about her bedside. At the last
las one who wraps the drapery of
his couch about him and lies down to
pleasant dreams -.
JOHNSON, Feb. 13, 1888.
ALBERT M. WOODBURY..
Albert NJ. Woodbury. was born in