The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-16
Obituary..

BANCRoFT,-Henry II. Bancroft died sud-
denly at Montpelier Tuesday, the 10Th inst.
Mr.. Bancroft was born in Calais December
90, 1855, the son of Harrison and Philura
Bancroft. Ten years ago he entered the
service of the Montpelier & Wells River
railroad, serving as station agent at Marsh
field one year and at GrOton nine years
In June, 1888, he entered the general Office
of the road at Montpelier. In June last de-
clining health compelled him to resign his
position. Efficiency and faithfuness to his
employers, by whom he was implicitly
trusted, characterized his service He
leaves wife, but no children. His funeral
will occur on Thursday at his late residence
No. First avenue, at half-past ten A. NJ
Interment will be made at Groton.
BALLoU.-Mrs. Adeline-F. Balou reached
the close OF long life on the llth instant,
dying at the age of eighty-two, worn out BY
the cares and tolls of many years rather
than by disease. Her body was brought
from her late residence in Royalton to
Montpelier last Monday afternoon, and was
inferred ia the family lot in Green Mount
Cemetery, number of her Montpelier
friends joining her children and grandchil-
dren in the burial services, which were con-
Quoted by Rev. S. A. Parker of Bethel, as
sisted by Rev. j. T.. Wright, pastor of the
Church of the Messiah of this place, of which
church she had been member for nearly
quarter of a century. She was the widow of
Rev. Eli Ballou, DID,, who died in Royalton,
March, 1883. DR.. Ballou came to Mont
peler with his family from Stowe in 1910,
purchased The Christian Repository, and,
through its columns, and quite extensively
in the pulpit, stOutly advocated the Univer
salist theology for thirty years. In 1870 he
sold the Repository to the Universalist Pub
fishing House in Boston, and it was merged
in the paper now known as The Christian
Leader. Since 1870 the family home has
been in Woodstock, in Barnard and in
Royalton, and DR.. Ballou spent few years
| preaching in the West. Mrs. Ballous life
was one of many cares and grave response
| bilities for it fell to her lot not only to
watch over the six children committed to
her charge (of whom three sens survive
herr but also to give a mothers devotion to
several grandchildren.
BoLToN.-Died in Washington, ID. c.,
October s, 1889 Mary G. Boyce, wife of
James f. Bolton, Esq, in the sixty-frst
year Of her age. Mrs. Bolton was native
OF RoXbury, VT, and after her marriage be-
came a resident of Middlebury; but for the
last twenty years her home has been in
| Washington, where her husband now occu-
! pies responsible position in the treasury
department. For many years Mrs. Bolton
| has been worthy and consistent member of
! the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal
! church OF Washington, and the radiance of
! her Christian hope and joy shone brightly
above the dark cloud of physical suffering
and even agony incident to her fatal NAL
ady. But it was in the world of home that
the bright, genial and atfectionate qualities
of her nature found their fullest develop
ment, and husband and children sorrow
most of all that the light of that sacred pre-
| cinct has gone out forever. Two children
survive Mrs. Bolton-George W., for many
years connected with the WATCHMAN office,
who, in response to telegram, reached
Washington four days before his mothers
death, and Henry B., a real estate and in
| surance agent in Washington city. The
remains of Mrs. Bolton reached Montpelier
on Thursday, and brief services were held
! Friday morning at the residence of her son
| on East State street, and more formal
| funeral obsequies were observed on Saturday
morning at East Roxbury, Rev. Mr.. Hough
of Montpelier conducting the same, and
speaking most impressively from those
highly appropriate texts found in Revela-
| tion xiv 13, and Proverbs XXI; 2S. The
singing for the occasion was also furnished
from Montpelier
HUTCHINs.-Died in Brooklyn, n. Y,
! Wednesday, October9 9, Charlotte McNder
widow of the late George W. Hutchins of
Waterbury, VT. In Mrs. Hutchins' death
a life having much of the joys, much of
the pathos of existence, is ended. She was
born at Quebec, the daughter of John Nc
| Nider, a merchant of that city. There and
in Scotland, bereft of her mother, her child
hood days were spent, her boon companion
an elder sister who survives her at Mon
the wife Of Edwin Lyman, merchant
of Montreal, a relation that was sundered
by the sudden and untimely death of her
husband. Her marriage with Mr. Hutchins
dates back more than half century, a
union that was happily prolonged beyond
its golden anniversary. Since the death of
her husband, Mrs. Hutchins had lived with
her daughter, Mrs. j. j. Colby in Brooklyn,
but had spent the summer pleasantly at the
old homestead in Waterbury, She had
been in good health for a person of many
years During the inclement days of the
fall she had suffered somewhat acutely from
the infrmities of age, but was able to return
to Brooklyn the 8th instant, and seemed to be
greatly improved and inspirited by the jour
ney. On the morning after her arrival, how
ever, neuralgia pains, from which she had
suffered during the later years OF her life, re-
turned suddenly and with great violence,
In the evening of that day her vital forces,
weakened by age and exhausted by intense