The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-12-13
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Mrs. Abbe Shattuck, wife of Charles f.
Shattuck, one of our prominent business
men, died last Saturday night at her home
in this city, after an illness of only one
week.
On the Sabbath preceding she was i'm
her place of worship at the Congregational
church, and with her Sabbath school class
as usual In the evening she attended the
Dung peoples meeting at the Y. M. q. A.
hall, and afterwards the preaching service
at the church. She complained of chilly
feeling that affected her, but no thought of
anything serious was suggested or harbOred,
but as the days came and passed danger and
anxiety also came but did not pass. Satur-
day night found company of friends at the
home waiting the dreaded end. fearful
eyes and trembling voices and subdued con-
versation in which words of appreciation
and expressions of sense of loss mutually
blended. Sympathy for the husband and
children, and especially for the absent son,
Prof. j. Z. Shattuck, of st. Clair, then on
his way, but unable to arrive to see his
mother before the closing moments of her
life, was evident from the hearts of many
| in the home and on the streets. She had
| lived so long in OwOssO, her deeds of kind
ness mad been so many, especially to the
| poor and her activities in church and social
| life were so many and generous, that all
knew her. Her last benevolent act, with
the assent and approval of her husband,
| though with no expectation of public lknOwl-
edge or praise, and i'm the execution of
which, probably, she took the cold that
ended in DEATH was providing for large
number of chickens and groceries for poor
people in the city to be distributed Thanks
| giving day.
Mrs. Shattuck was born into this earth
| life at st. Adams, VT, July 2S, 1889. She
came into this State about 1857. She en-
terered the marriage life Sept "a, 1861, at
Saginaw. TO this union God gave for love
and joy five dear ones, four by birth and
one by adoption. Two of these awaited
the mother with the ineffable joy and greet
ing of the redeemed. She was born into
the Christ life, taking the covenant of it
| with thirty-three others, April z, 1867. She
passed into the Heavenly life Saturday
night, December Z, 1889, at the age of so
years, months and days.
On Sabbath morning the pastor preached
a sermon appropriate to the OCCASION taking
as his text, James 4: Ii, -15: "Whereas We
know not what shall be on the morrow.
For what is your life? 1t is even vapor
that appeareth for little time and then
vanisheth away. For this reason we ought
to say: If the Lord will we shall live and do
this or that" At the close of the sermon
he read the following resolutions which
were approved by the congregation:
| WHEREAS: Our sister, Mrs. Abbie Shat
tuck, has gone out from us to enter into the
life of Heaven and of God, called of Him
| in the midst of honor and of usefulness,
we as church and congregation, assembled
in our accustomed place of worship, this
Sabbath morning and desiring to express
our thoughts and feelings in this event, do
hereby adopt these resolutions:
REsoLvED: 1hatwe recognize with af-
lection and gratitude the generous and un-
selfish self denials and self conservation of
Mrs. Shattuck in the service of her Heavenly
Father and Savior Jesus Christ in every
| good work of the church and community,
and for the good of the poor and the suffer
ing.
| RESOLVED: That we appreciate her
| sincere and devoted life and that we are
conscious of very great loss in her decease,
and that pledging ourselves to emulate her
virtues and example, we are assured with
confidence that she has assembled to her re-
| wards in the blessedness and rest and glory
of God. We gratefully acknowledge the
grace of God that was upon her and that
was manifest in her spirit and life.
RESOLVED: That we tender to all the
members of her family our affectionats
sympathies and coincidence, realizing their
loss and the void that has come into their
life and home. Yet we would remind them
for their comfort, the rich legacy of love and
service she has left to their memory and af-
lection and we pray that these may lead
them all to follow after, and that tho bless
of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit may
abide with them.
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lutiOns may he placed on the records of the
church and be given to the family, and to
the press of the city.
The funeral service began at the house
with prayer by the pastor and at the church
in the presence of large and sympathetic
congregation on Tuesday afternoon. The
pastor addressed the congregation briefly
from Heb. IL: 1915, remarking that friends
derive consolation i'm such an event as this
from two sources: from memory of the vir-
tues of the departed and from thoughts OF
the future. The virtues, if christian, are
divine in origin, spirit and aim. The future
is divine in reward and is glorious in con
dition. The choir sang sympatheticalll
and tenderly several appropriate hymns
| The final service was rendered at the toni
where the remains were committed will
scripture words and prayer to Gods keep
ing and with benedictiOn for the living
And thus ends another life here, but we re
joice in the hope that she hath crown o
=, life given of God wherein she shall rejoic
forevermOre.
Do you want strictly pure candies? If
90 to ConnOr's for we have the largest all
best stock in OwossO.
Given away; present with every $3.50
worth of goods at Knapp IL Smiths.
Geo. Devereaux is ready at all times
buy good driving horses that are at leas
1871 hands high, weigh from 1850 to 100
pounds, young and sound, good travellers an
good style; wants bays, blacks, browns o
chestnut i'm color; must be broken dOubl
or single. Will pay from $3.50 to $500.
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