Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-01-06

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employers; but falling health
soon compelled him to abandon
what had become a very desir-
able and permanently established
business, and from which he
retired to an ample and an
abundant farm, with which he
connected a wood manufac-
tory, and engaged in those in.
dustrious and busy occupations
among which he died, working
up to the very time of his death,
as all men who regard life as
they ought desire to do.
In March 1866 he married
Miss Annette E. Dyer of Sutton,
p. Q. His brother, Ira A., was
a well known lawyer and prac-
ticed in Guildhall, VT, and Cole
brook, n. H. He died at or near
St. Paul, Mimi, some 20 years
ago. John, another brother,
died at New York about a year
since.
Some men living amiable lives
are pleasantly regretted, and
memories of them are easily laid
aside; while others, who i'll life
are thorough, earnest, bold and
effective, create more antago-
nisms and provoke more criti-
Gins; but their loss, like their
lives, is more substantial, and
longer and more deeply felt
Judge Ramsay had not the
suavitcr in MOdO which is al
ways accompanied with a smile
more or less sinister, but he had
a real lively interest in the hopes
and plans of his friends, and
talked about them with the same
zest that he did concerning his
own. He was a bold, impulsive
man, with absolutely masculine
tendencies, but his heart was as
sensitive to the touch Of suffering
and want as a mothers; and
his friendships were as touching
ly tender and clinging as a
woman's. He was one of those
whose living is something, and
whose dying is the loss of a
part of the substance of the life
of a community. To live and
die indifiercntly, even escaping
pains and difficulties, is not to
be desired; but to contend with
adversities and adventures is.
To go quickly to rest amid the
results of a successful life, with
plans achieved and difficulties
surmountcd is indeed a happy
exit.
see too plainly what the com
planning and ill-boding spirit
points me to. | see Il group
whose young hearts are filled
with faculties for joyous hopes
for tender loves, erstwhile wait
ing and longing to do most kindly
Offices of good, who had STORED
in hope the fondest cares to b.
bestowed on a long and quiet
old age. In their midst l see
also, her who left home
country, early joys and all hel
girlish hopes, to centre two lives
in one and all in one. see, too
that the object in which all of Sc
many lives were conferred is gon,
dead. But | see no broker
VOWS; no cold contempt wher
love agreed to be; no indiffer
ence or scorn where once wa
) that which some demon stol
away. see no silkcn cords bro
ken by any fault Of theirs. onl,
see just common death which al
knew was coming and which i
as likely to come in his time @
life as any.
And so | see them all turnin,
; from his quick relief by death t.
: his life, especially the wife ant
mother, for an example to teac'
her that sublime womanly cour
age to carry ont the plans of hin
who was, and somehow is, I'll
u the young lives which sprani
from theirs shall mingle anew il
the world of Others and be los
to sight in the eternal repetition
of lives as little known to us a
yet as ours are to them.
" Her office is to rear, to teach,
+ Becoming. as is meet and fit,
G A link among the days. to knit