Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-02-08

ample of generous hospitality to stranger
and friend, the thoughtful aid to the neglect
ed encouragement TO the Respondent, sym
pathy for the erring and the unwayering fl
deity to every trust. The human voice may
say in hope and consolation,
"Rest comes at length, though life be long and
dreary,
All Journeys end in welcome to the weary,
And heaven, the hearts true home, has come
at last"
But a surer word comes from n higher
source, as the beloved disciple and inspired
revelator bears the message to all wounded
hearts: 81 heard voice from heaven say.
ing unto me, write, Blessed are the dead
which die in the Lord from henceforth; yea,
saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their
labors, and their works do follow them"
Inns.
OTHER DEATHS.
Mrs. Lucretia G. DANA Sargent died in
West Rutland the LIST inst. She was n native
ofWeybridge, having been born there July 4,
1889 She was one of the oldest OF seven of the
Dana family and outlived them all she was
twice married. Her first husband was Mr..
william Bowen OF Whipple Hollow, when men, she &c,
first came there in 1870 Mr.. Bowen died In
1857 and in 1864 she married Junia Sargent,
ST., who died in May, 1869.
Willard Franklin Myrick. one of the Oldest
citizens of Chicago, died at his home there on
Sunday, Jan. %. He was a native of Addison.
He settled in Chicago in 1886. The Herald of
that city contained "A long notice OF his career
which we hope to find room Tor next week.
MIS-. E1ZaDeIn HOOker GOOunue, WHO uleu
at Whitewater, Wis, Jan. s, was the daughter
of DR.. Thomas Hooker of Rutland, where she
was born July ID, 1900. The Whitewater Reg.
lister says "She was n lineal descendant OF
the Rev. Thomas Hooker, who emigrated to
New England in 1888, and with his church set
tied at Hartford, Conn, in 1886, thus establish
ing the first church in that city. On her moth
er's side, she was the granddaughter OF Col
John Brown of Revolutionary memory
whose monument is at Stone Arabia, New
York. where he fell in the service OF his coun
try. From the same Pilgrim ancestry are de
scended many persons the record of whose
sterling qualities and noble lives illunines
many page of New England history. On
June 3, 1874, she was married to the Rev 10
siah +. Goodhue, whose first parish was al
Williston, VT, where they remained ten years
afterwards removing to Shoreham, VT, where
they remained "a years, and then came tc
Whitewater, Wis, in 1857. Her lite was long
as we count the years she lived, covering a:
1t did nearly century. 1t was also long In
deeds OF charity and loving service will
which those years were filed. AS n ministers
wife, no hands were more willing to help, nc
heart more ready with loving sympathy tc
comfort and bless the sick, the Borrowing oil
unfortunate, of whatever creed or condition
Her faith in Christ was deep and strong, man
ifesting itself in cheerful words, kindly deeds
enlarged sympathies and ripe full lite. Hel
interest in the affairs OF life, in the religious
literary, social and political world was con
slant, and so her heart kept young and lit,
was sweet to the last Death found her, no
anxiously waiting, but ready when His sum
mons came" ~