Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-14
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Mrs, Ann Sutton.

Mrs. Ann Sutton, widow of Alfred Sutton, ESQ.,,
died Sunday evening at her residence, Winebddle
avenue, in her 81st year. She was the oldest child
of the late Richard and Sarah Bishop, and the an
nouncement her death will carry the memory of
but few persons back to the childhood and youth
of the deceased, for Pittsburg was then but in
significant town, comparatively; suburbs, there
were none save few scattered houses and the
primeval forest covered miles of space, now occu-
pied by roaring factories, business and industries
of all kinds and dense population. She was born
in London in the year 1807-s. When she was but a
year old her father determined to remove to Amer
lea, and having disposed of his business and prop
erty Che was a merchant in the Strand), set sail
for this land in the spring of 1903. He was three
months in. making Sandy Hook. and it is learned
from his diary that, during the last two weeks of
the voyage the vessel was half water-logged and
in hourly danger Of sinkd1g cRe only food left
He escaped these dangers and hardships. and
soon after purchased the farm on which he lived
till his death. This farm, so well known to old
Pittsburgers stretched nearly from the old Ernest
and Semple place to the shaTps6urg ferry (since
culture, became truly lovely home. Here Ann,
his eldest child whose death is noted above, grew
M in a scene of natural beauty nowhere sur
passed, amid healthful employment innocent en-
joyments and pure and good associations. Her
wide reading; had imbibed largely of the philoso-
ply and literature Of the French Revolution, and
threw around his family freedom of thought and
iiberality of opinion which more or less LEFT its
traces for good upon every member OF his house,
In her eighteenth year she was married to AL
fred Sutton. ESQ.,, for several successive terms
Prothonotary of Allegheny county, living at first
on the old Bishop farm; afterward on Smithfeld
street Cthe only house left standing for several
renceville, and in these her last years, on Wine
biddle avenue, in house which she had recently
erected, She had survived all her children and
lived with her granddaughter, Miss Theodosia
Bloor, whose conservation ofherife to the care of
her beloved grandmother has won the admiration
and esteem of all who know her, and of the labor
and sacrifice which she mas freely rendered to
make happy and easy her relatives last years.
Mrs. Sutton was a very beautiful girl, full of
kindest impulses and of an exuberant vitality
which made her a welcome comnanion
and guest at all the entertainments of the society
in which she moved. When it was first the |
writer's pleasure to meet her he found a woman |
mature in mind and body, kind and good, Rener- |
GUS and just naturally reverential, and then in |
the communion of the church in which she lived |
and died. her example and life being altogether |
worthy of her profession. but always LIBERAL |
generous and kindly toward other professions and
beliefs.
She Inherited the intellectual gifts of her father
her intellect keen, clear and logical; excellent
sense characterized all her judgments and con- |
duct; she was constant and judcious reader |
and cannot but think 1t very beautiful that she
an old lady, should take delight, as she did in |
the last few weeks Of her life, in reading ga |
llau Qhter of Fife Asa curiosfty of liferafure
of THE DISPATCH ever printed, and has bought |
and read every number since.
Her husband and all her children died before
her, and many years of her later life were given /
to the nurture and care of her grandchildren. and
this devotion came back in blessing on her at the /
last. In the fullness OF years. surrounded by her
dearest earthly friends, and in the calm and peace
Of an untroublcd faith and immortal hope she |
kindliest recollections. Requiescat in pace.
w, ID, M