The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-12-07

Harriet Chaplin Was born July Goth.
1906 in Manlius, OnoI daga County, N.
Y, where she resided until 1928, the
last few years having been spent in
teaching in public schools. AT this lat
ter date she was MARI led To Jehial Gid
den and removed To Orleans County.
In the autumn of 1852 the family
came to Michigan and after about one
year, located two miles east of Paw Paw.
With tender, loving care she reared
to man and womenhOod four children
(three of her own and one her husbands
by former marriage); but earthly joys
came not unmixed with pain and three
churchyard mounds attest the wounded
mother-heart. In 1887 the home was
broken by the death of her husband,
since which time she has been, for the
most part. with a son living near the
old homestead.
She possessed an active, inquiring
mind aud reading was lifelong pas
sion. 1t was her pleasure to keep
abreast of the times and she found keen
enjoyment i'm reviewing with her family
and friends, important passing events
and matters of public interest. As
neighbor and friend she was kindly,
sympathetic and helpful and through
sistant christianity and faithful, useful
membership in the Free Will Baptist
Church with which she united on com
ing to this state, and for the welfare of
which she was ever solictous SO long as
conscious life was hers.
At the time of her husbands death
she suffered severe illness after which
she never fully recovered her former
strength; and time while weaving with
silver threads the hair and deepening
lines on cheek and brow, stole softly of
the remaining store. Almost imper-
ceptably she weakened and faded until
she sank beneath the pressure of
the years. Her last moments were
quiet, unconscious ones marked only by
the shortening breath; the wearysome
bonds of the flesh which SO long had
bound her To earth were. on the night
of Nov. Goth, at last broken and the
freed spirit sped ioyously away to that
better land toward which her wistful
eyes had long been turned. There
three children gave her glad welcome
while here three sons looked their last
on the peaceful face of the dear mother
on the afternoon of December End. as
she lay in the casket with a handful of
ripe, golden wheat clasped close to her
silent breast.
Rev Anna Barton spoke few COM
forting words of hope suggested by
Heb. 4. g.: There remaineth therefore,
rest to the people of God" after which
she was borne to her last resting place
by the side of the one who had been,
for So many years her husband and
companion.
Mysterious death! that in a single hour
Lies gold can refine;
And by thy divine
Change mortal weakness TO immortal power
Bending beneath the weight of many years,
Spent with the noble strife
OF victorious life,
We watched her fading heavenward through our
But ere the sense of loss our hearts had wrung,
miracle was wrought.
And swift as happy thought,
She lived again, brave, beautiful and young.
Age, pain and sorrow dropped the wells they wore,
And showed the tender eyes
OF angels in disguise,
Whose discipline so patiently she bore.
The passing years their harvests brought of love,
Their crosses and their pain,
Commingled loss and gain
That drew her tender trusting heart above.
We should not weep above her narrow bed,
For here is only peace
That followed glad release,
And nothing but the weary dust is dead.