The Newtown bee., 1890-12-19
lOl YEARS OLD.
Newtown's Oldest Native Gone
MRS MARCIA BEERS.

! The funeral services of Mrs Marcia
Beers, who died December 5, were held
at the residence of Norman S. Platt,
Cheshire, Tuesday, 9th and were at
tended by large number Of relatives
and friends. Nearly all of the descend
ants of the deceased We're present. The
services were conducted by Rev DR. Hor-
| ton Of Cheshire, who delivered an appro-
pirate and fitting discourse, alluding to
her long life and faithful Christian serv-
ice to the last. He also read short
sketch of her life, after which hymn,
'sHear what the voice from Heaven de-
clares," No. "a in the prayer book, which
Mrs Beers had selected some years ago
for this occasion, was sung. On the cas-
ket were two sheaves of wheat and a
wreath of evergreens. The bearers were
six of the great grandsons, Lewis g..
Northrop, Charles A. Northrop, Frank
M. Frost and George S. Frost of Bridge
water, Harry p. Giddings of Danbury
and Herbert Fl. Frost of Cheshire. The
remains were inferred in the village GEM
etery.
| Mrs Beers was a native of Newtown,
having been born in Sandy Hook, Janu-
airy 81, 1888. Her parents were Lewis
and Sarah Glover Sherman and she was
the last survivor of family of nine
children, of whom she was the 9th.
When two years old, she was moved to
that part of the town called Pohtatuck,
not far from the Housatonic river. Her
father died when she was five years old.
In her younger days, she united with the
| Episcopal church in Newtown. In 1911,
she married Nathaniel S. Beers of Bridge
water and went to that town to live. Mr.
Beers built the house on the river road
about one and II half miles north of
Southville, which still stands and where
they resided for 80 years. Mr. Beers died
April 10, 1913, leaving one son and one
daughter. The son, Philo S. Beers, mar
ried in 1874 and his mother lived with
him, going with him to Cheshire in 1864.
Since his death in 1875, she had lived
with his wife, Mrs Susan Beers. to whose
loving and tender care, for the last 4G
years, she owed in great measure her
wonderful longevity. Mrs Beers had
enjoyed comfortable health, although for
the past few months she had been quite
feeble. She was not confined to her bed
until the Tuesday before her death.
She leaves 20 living descendants. There
have been but four deaths in the family :
Her son, Philo s.; son-in-law, Lewis X.
Frost; two great grandchildren. The
descendants now living are: Daughter,
Mrs Sylvia Frost, Bridgewater. OF her
five children, Beers Frost, Brooklyn, N.
Y, has one daughter, Edith NJ. one son,
Frederic H., died aged three years. Ell
mer Frost, Bridgewater, has three sons,
Frank NJ, George S. and Willis E. Flo
ia j., who married Amos Northrop. re-
sides in Bridgewater and has two sons,
Lewis G. and Charles A. Henry S. Frost
OF Cheshire has four children, Ida s., Her
bert H., Howard l.. Susan E., who mar
ried Penfield Giddings, resides in Dan
bury and has two children, Harry p. and
Ernest r.
The children of Phiio S. Beers were
Stella j.. who married Norman Platt OF
Cheshire, had one daughter Edith, who
died aged 10 years. Carrie A. married
DR. M. N. Chamberlain of Cheshire. but
has no children.