Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-03-11

tomorrow and will lie in state from 10 "a. n
until ? p. M, when public funeral serv
ices will be held under the direction Of
Rev. Lyman Abbott, who succeeded the
late Henry Ward Becchcr as pastor of his
toric Plymouth church. A remarkable CO.
incidence is that Mrs. Beecher died on the
tenth anniversary of her husband 5 death.
Eunice White Bcecher, wife of the re
uowned pulpit orator, was born at West
Sutton, Worcester county, Mass, S4 years
ago. She was the daughter of a physician,
DR. Artemas Bullard, whose son was a
student at Amherst college at the same
time as Mr.. Beecher
1t was in this way that she came to
meet her future husband. The latter was
invited by young Bullard to spend vaca-
tion at West Sutton.
After they had known one another but a
very short while they became betrothed,
though she was not Is years of age and
hewas about the same age. 1t was not un-
til seven years later, however, when Beech
er had already been ordained and called TO
his first charge at Lawrenceburg Ind,
that they were married. For two years
Mr.. and Mrs. Beecher remained at Law
renceburg, where they lived very frugally,
for Mr.. Beecher's income was none of the
largat.
Mrs Beecher has told Of their early ex-
periences in housekeeping They had lit
tie money. Boarding was not to be
thought Of for it would have swallowed
up her husbands income. At last they
found two rooms, dirty beyond description,
which had formerly been occupied by
laborer and his wife. Having cleaned the
rooms thoroughly, they next fell to seek
ing furniture
Starting housekeeping.
Mrs. Beecher has given a vivid descrip.
tion of how they picked up study table
and chair here, Il scrap of old carpet there
and all the other little things that were
necessary to furnish their new apartments.
Sometimes it was the remains of an old
bookshelf found among the rubbish that
had been thrown into tine back yard as
kindling wood which was carefully clean
ed and vanished and placed against the
wall of Mr.. Beecher's study, sometimes
the remains of an old coat, good for moth
ing else, which was carefully cleaned and
converted into Il table cover. So by de-
grees they succeeded in making themselves
IA home.
Alterward they moved to indianapolis,
where they remained until lS47, when Mr..
Beecher was called to Plymouth church in
Brooklyn Mrs. Beecher had ten children,
of whom only four-three sons and a
daughter-are now living. During most
of the latter part of her life she dwelt in a
little house on the corner of Hicks and
Orange streets, Brooklyn.
1t was at the Beecher home in Indian
apolis it is said, that Harriet Beecher
Stowe, the preachers celebrated sister, re-
ceived the inspiration which resulted in
the production Of Uncle Toms Cabin"
Mrs. Beccher went to Port Townshend,
Wash, in August, 1895, unattended to
celebrate her eighty third birthday and to
visit her youngest son, Herbert. She stood
the journey well and returned in good
health and spirits. A few months ago she
went to visit her daughter, Mrs Samuel
Scoyille, in Stamford, and while there fell
and fractured her hip. This accident
proved too much for her vitality. She was
never afterward able TO leave the house
and sank slowly but surely until her death
Mrs. Beecher's living children are Mrs
Samuel Scoyille of Stamford, Colonel
/ Henry Barton Bcecher of Brooklyn, Will
I liam, lawyer, with an Office in the Broad
way bank building, New York, and Her.
bert, captain of steamship on the Pacific
| coast