The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-31

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Miss Elizabeth Bohl who has been most
helpful and worthy companion through all
the experiences which the years have
brought, and who still survives, in com
Portable health, though somewhat the
senior of her husband. Three most worthy
daughters remain as the fruit of this
marriage-Mrs 7. II. Roleau of Essex
Junction, and Mrs; e. A. Roleau and Miss
Carrie of Montpelier. AS a husband and
father Mr. Alain was exceptionally tender
and affectionate And thus, after faithful
service in recording the passing events of
more than sixty years for the benefit of the
public, his last " take " is finished, his copy
" hooked, y his ease abandoned, and his
1" form made up" Peace to his memory
Appropriate funeral services were held on
Friday, conducted by Rev. j Edward
Wright, and attended, beside a large circle
of relatives, by his fellow craftsmen in
GLIDING the ladies', from the several offices
in this town and Barre.
RIcE.-St, Paal papers received contain
feeling tributes to the memory of Hon. Ed
mund Rice, who died near that city July
IL. Mr.. Rice had typical American career.
Two brothers-Willard and Edmund Rice
came to Waitsfield from Charleston n. II .,
about the year 1910. Edmund married
Ellen Durkee of Waitsfeld. daughter of
Andrew and Rachel Spauldng Durkee,
Andrew Durkee being one of the boys
saved from captivity by Mrs. Hendee at the
burning of Royaton Mr.. Rice died in
1929 leaving a widow and ten children
seven boys and three girls. He was inter
ested in mining in Waitsfeld at the time of
his death, and his property was all lost in
this Investment. The mother kept her fam
lily by her own efforts. She toiled early and
late with her needle, nobly fighting her life
battles, stitch by stitch, until all her seven
boys were safely in business in the western
country and able to take care of her. She
a fhnnuht nd ba az
work of Edmund and Henry was to provide
a home in Kalamazoo, Mich, for their
mother, which she lived to enjoy but short
time George ID. Rice, the oldest of the
brothers, went from the shoe bench in
Waitsfied to the bar in Kalamazoo and left
a record as a successful lawyer in good
standing. The Hon. II. NJ. Rice is still
living in st. Paul. Mimi Samuel Austin
Rice died in New York city at the close of
the Mexican war, in which he served.
lafayette, and Orrin died early in the
West. Mrs Ellen Rice Hollinshead, the
only sister living, resides in st. Paul. The
other two died in Waitsfeld. The funeral
of Edmund Rice of Waitsfeld was the first
in that town ever conducted by the Masons.
Members of the order from Montpelier
were in attendance. He was an energetic,
wide-awake man, but did not live to see
Waitsfeld grow in mineral wealth. 1t is
said he owned the first store that was ever
in use in Waitsfield. His son, whose death
at st. Paul we have noted, was born at
Waitsfield in 1918, and received such scant
education as the poverty of his family adj
mitted. He went to Kalamazoo in 1888.
read law and held several offices con-
nected with the local and state courts. He
served in the Mexican war, and in 1S49
moved to st. Paul, and was one of the
pioneers of the city and the state of which
it is the capital. In the practice of his pro-
fession, as railway president, as a member
of the state legislature in both branches, as
mayor of ST. Paul, his ability was exhibited
and the high esteem in which he was held
demonstrated. His great personal popu-
larity was shown in 1886, when he was NOM
mated to congress in the fourth district,
and though the district was republican by a
large majority, and he a democrat, he was
elected by plurality of 5000 votes. In
1883, however, he was buried beneath a
majority of 10000 votes. He felt the blow
severely. So complete a reversal of politi-
cal fortune was to him inexplicable He
was man of great heart and sympathetic
nature. Closing an eloquent eulogy, the
Pioneer Press of st. Paul says: " He will be
gratefully remembered by hundreds of poor
and obscure men, the hardship of whose
lot, he has helped to mitigate, and their
tears are the best tribute to his memory"