The Republican journal., 1896-04-30
Obituary.

| Lois Rhodes Marshall was the daughter of
Charles l.. Rhodes, deceased, of Cleveland,
Ohio, formerly manager and superintendent
| of the Cleveland and Mahoning Railroad
| Her two sisters, Mrs Palmer and Mrs
Hough, still reside in that city. Educated
at one of the principal female seminaries in
Ohio, the Willoughby Female Seminary
| she was married in 1859 to VIM. C. Marshall
of this city and went to Racine, Wisconsin,
| to live. In 1868 her husband returned to
Belfast and she has since resided here She
had three children, of whom two died in in
fancy. Her son, VIM. r. Marshall, is in
business at Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She
was woman of culture, refinement, and
noble character. During her fifty eight years
of life she has known SORROWS and physical
suffering beyond the lot of most women, but
her thought was less of her own griefs than
| of minlstering to the comforts and assuag-
ing the sorrows of others. She was a mem
| Der OF the Episcopal church and ardently
devoted to it, but her spirit was broad and
| her love embraced all churches and it was
| great deprivation when she became unable
to attend their services Active in every
|
rations for Charity Ball in Hayford's Hall
when she fell and injured her spine, in
consequence of which she was confined
to her couch for a long time. For fif-
| teen years she was confined to the house.
only leaving it to be taken to Boston
for treatment by DR.. Brown-Sequard and
other specialists, enduring the most
intense anguish, and receiving but little
benefit. Time wrought partial cure and
until the last two years she was much bet
ter. During all those years the affairs of
| her home were ably directed and accom-
| plshed, while her broad catholic spirit reach
ed beyond this, and many good works were
the fruit of her inspiration and zeal. No
| table among these was the procuring by
| personal appeals, through interviews or let
ters, of the large sum of money that provid-
ed the fine iron fence that now encloses
Grove Cemetery, and which it is safe to say
would not have been there to-day without
her labor and persistency. But trouble once
more laid its blighting hand upon her, af-
| fectng first her mind and through that the
already enfeebled body. She became de-
spondent; her noble courage gave way, and
even hope seemed to desert her. Friends
urged change of scene, but she would not
leave her home Insomnia added its hor-
rors, and long, sleepless nights kept her
prey to her saddened mind and pan-racked
body At last she felt that her brain was
weakening under the strain, and when, as
she said, her thoughts became uncontroll-
able, her condition was piteous. Her great
fear was that she should become helpless
and care. Having been all her life devoted
| to others, to the extent of any sacrifice, it
panied her beyond endurance to think she
might lose that power and instead of bles-
| sing others, become herself burden. So
life seemed vaueless and her one prayer was
| for rest. OF late her bodily health had slightly
| improved but she insisted that her head was
no better. On the morning of Sunday she
seemed cheerful and in the afternoon urged
| her husband to take his accustomed drive
later sending her faithful maid to the post
Office with letter for the mornings mail
When Mr.. Marshall returned he found the
housekeeper very much disturbed over her
absence Search was quickly made and
soon the sad story was known, her lifeless
body being found hanging from a beam in
| the carriage house. Nothing was found to
| Indicate generalization. Apparently parox-
ysm of mental disturbance, more dominating
than any before, had momentarly dethroned
her reason and controlled her will, and the
same strength of character that made her
strong to endure through all the years of
her physical suffering, enabled her to carry
out her insane impulse with certainty and
| decision. From written fragment found
| in her Bible, which was ever beside her it
| would appear that she had feared some such
! a result, for it in the form of a prayer a
most pathetic entreaty to the God in whom
she believed devoutly, that she might be
! saved from such a fate. Called to endure a
| heavy weight of mortal ills, she struggled
bravely until strength, health, reason, de-
! serted her, and through much tribulation
she hath entered into rest.
| s'Ah yet, when all is thought and said,
| The heart still overrules the head
| Still what we hope must believe,
And what is given receive;
Must still believe for still we hope
That in world of larger scope,
What here is faithfully begun
Will be completed, not undone.''
j. NJ. L
Mr.. Daniel r. Maddocks died at his home
at the Head of the Tide April 23d, aged 85