Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-10-30

daughters of Commander Brown, and
three the children of Mrs Platt.
When President Hayes visited Brattle-
boro in August, 1877, on his way to Bel
lows Falls, he held reception in the car, =
which was attended by many prominent
people, S. M. Waite being master of cere-
monies. As he presented Judge and Mrs.
Tyler to the President, Judge Adds, who
was standing near, said: "Mr. President,
must tell you something of Judge Tyler;
his father was a rank rebel" The Presi-
dent looked much astonished, but when
Judge Adds went on to say, she was one
of the Boston tea party" Mr.. Hayes said,
''Sir, bow low before ou," suiting the
action to the word
On his mothers side as well as his faith
er's, Judge Tyler came of distinguished
ancestry. His mother was the daughter of
Gen. Joseph Pierce Palmer, a member of
the provincial congress of 1774-75, and of the
committee of safety appointed by that
body, as well as a colonel Of the militia
doing active work for the patriots cause in
and near Boston. 1t is related, and is un-
doubleday an historic fact, that the mother
sat as a child in her mothers arms at the
dining table of Gen. Joseph Warren when
he ate his last dinner, rising from the ia
BILE TO bid his friends good bye and going
thence to his death at Bunker Hill.
1t is furthermore an interesting fact that
there was a double wedding at the time of
the marriage of Judge Tyler and Miss
Keyes. At the same time Ellen Reyes,
sister of the bride, was married to Freder
lex n. Palmer, who afterward became the
postmaster OF Brattleboro, and was the or
iginator of the famous" Brattleboro stamp"
To a degree rarely to be equalled in
these latter days Judge Tylers career has
been unique. While he has gone for 80
years the quiet and even tenor of his way,
in his office as judge of probate, he has
probably become known to more people,
in a greater or less measure of confidence,
than any man now living in Vermont, GER
tainly than any in this county. While he
was careful and dIligedt in the conduct
of his office, he was approachable to de-
gree peculiar to himself and he possessed
qualities of simplicity, openness and cor
diality which won him an affection which
was universal. No widow in the depth of
the trouble brought by widowhood, no heir
in doubt about his rights or standing, and
no perpleXed administrator or executor,
ever hesitatel TO come to him in full con-
hdence, and none ever found him other
than ready, kind and patient counsellor.
In ways like this he had continually form
ed, through all these years, impersonal ac-
quaintances which ripened in very many
cases into a feeling of warm personal
friendship. Within the limits of this pro-
bate district there are many hundreds of
people who will feel that they have sus-
tanned a personal loss when they read of
Judge Tyler's death. To describe his per-
sonality,-his face and figure grown so
beautifully venerable in these latter years,
his voice, his manner of speaking, his
pungent but kindly humor, is impossible,
but happy and admiring memory of all
these will be kept in many hearts while
life lasts.
His thorough knowledge of the law and
his judicial and equable temper fitted him
to perform the duties of a referee or com
missioner in legal cases with unusual &C
ceptability, and his services were much
sought in these offices. Few men were ca
pable of stating their findings in such cases
with such finish, conciseness and accuracy
of language.
Judge Tyler was, in the best sense, a
gentleman of the old school. He possess
ed a refinement which was Unborn, and a
native dignity which, while it invited con-
fdence and friendship, yet kept a reserve
which forbade over-confident familiarity.
With a mind well furnished by its early
training in the best schools, Judge Tyler
had inherited a taste for what was best in
literature, and this taste it was his life
| long pleasure TO indulge. Especially in his
latter years he has been an omnivorous
reader, absorbing everything of current
literature which came within his reach,
while he also turned back with renewed
dem = the classics of his boyhood.
His Unborn AID lifelong habit of "doing
for himself followed him 70 tbe SAD, and
death came to him, not in his bed, but sit
ing in his chair, where, but moment be-
fore, he gave last recognition TO his wife.
Judge Tyler was one of the founders of
st. Michaers Episcopal church in this viii
lage and was for years one of its wardens
and vestrymen. He used TO relate that in
his boyhood his mother and her children
used to walk regularly to Guilford on Sun
day mornings to attend the Episcopal ser
vices in Christ church in that village.
Judge Tyler was originally named
Charles, and all his life he was called by
that name by his family. The eldest son
and child of his fathers family was named
Royal and upon his death the name of
this younger son was changed to Royal to
preserve the family name. 1t is related
that his father, the chief judge, was chris
tened by some other name, and his name
was also changed TO Royal upon the death
of his father, the original Royal Tyler.
Judge Tyler was the last survivor of his
fathers family of eleven children. The
names of the children in the order of their
birth were Royal, John, Mary, Joseph,
Edward, William, Amelia, George p,
Charles (RoyalD, Thomas Pickman, Win
ship.
Judge Tyler's funeral will be held from
st. Michaers church this afternoon at three
o'clock.