The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-03-20
Obituary..

MURRAY.-James A. Murray died in
Montpelier, Friday morning, March 10, at
the age of forty-ive years. He built the
brick block in Montpelier now occupied by
the Montpelier and Wells River Railroad
Company as a passenger station. This
building he sold some six years ago, when
he went to Mandarin, Dakota, at which
place he entered into a mercantile busi-
ness in company with w. E. Best
former residentof Montpelier. For about
year after that he was engaged in keeping
a cattle ranch at Forestburg, Dakota, and
during the time he nearly pershed in the
great blizzard of that time Afterward in
company with Mr.. Best, he carried on
sheep ranch in Washington Territory until
his return to Byron, ILL.,, last November.
His death resulted from dropsy
MARsH.--In the death of Mrs. b. ID.
Marsh, the Congregational church of Plain
field loses an esteemed member. She had
been an invalid for nearly two years,
During the summer of 1887 she was stricken
with a sudden and severe illness, which left
her with greatly impaired health. Death
came peacefully and as a relief from suffer
ings which, while happily Mrs. Marsh herself
was not fully conscious of them, was of
peculiarly distressing character to her de-
voted husband and children. All was done
that could be desired for her comfort and
relief. And in the consciousness that they
We're enabled to alleviate to some degree
the distress of their loved one by their
watchful and ceaseleSs attentions her
family will find comforting reflections. Mrs
Marsh possessed Christian faith, unques-
tioning, sincere, and simple. She was a
constant and a devout attendant upon
divine worship, continuing her habit as
long as she had the powerto do so. The SYM
pathy of the church and community goes
forth to the bereaved husband and children,
as one more of their number passes away,
and another family is called to endure the
"a
cent years. WITS.
.HATcH.-Barre has lost well-known and
ghly-esteemed citizen in the death on
March II of HAL O. Hatch. He was born
in Williamstown, June 16, 1925. With the
long apprenticeship customary in his youth,
he learned the trade of blacksmithing and
edge-toOl making, and worked at that trade
in Bethel and Randolph for some five years.
In 1852 he entered the employ of the Fork
Manufacturing Company in Brookheld, and
in 1864 he moved to Barre and began work
in the Stafford Holden Manufacturing Com
pany. The machinery for their fork factory
was setup under his direction, aud he became
superintendent of the forging department
a position which he held until some seven
years ago, when declining health compelled
him to relinquish it. He became member
of the firm in 1871 His associates in the
factory testified their respect for him by at
tending his funeral in a body He was
quiet and unobtrusive in his manner, not
ambitious of public distinction, but faithful
in the performance of his duties, happily
mipgling kindness with tirmness in his deal
ings with men, and thus securing their last
ing friendship. He was strongly attached
to his home and its loved inmates, and the
immediate circle of the family formed at his
marriage with Melissa Tyler of Randolph,
March 80, lS47 suffers its first loss in his
death Mr.. Hatch was deeply interested
also in the Masonic fraternity. He was for
two years master of Granite Lodge in Barre;
he was member of King Solomon Chap
ter in Montpelier, and was also charter
member of Mount Zion Commandery of
Mount Sinai Temple, Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine, and of Saint Helena Conclave
Knights of Constantine aud, after the
funeral service at his late residence, his
Masonic brethren conducted the burial serv-
ice in the cemetery according to their ritual.