The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-05-03
SAD AFFLICTION
Mrs. Henry 5Waterhouse
Expires Suddenly.
Ill for a Week from Slight Dis
order Was Buried
Yesterday

Like a tnunGerDOiJ 10 the COuUl uu-
ity came the news of the death of Mrs.
Henry Waterhouse at her Peninsula
home at lis p. m. Saturday. She had
been i'll but a week, but it was not
such as was deemed dangerous to life.
The beginning of the end was on
Friday night, when deceased went off
by nervous exhaustion. The members
of the family put forth every energy to
bring her around and finally succeed
ed She seemed to be better. but be-
fore long went off into another spell
Mr.. Harry Waterhouse, the only mem
Der of the immediate family left up in
the city, was telephoned for and start
ed down to the Peninsula at 2 a. m.
Saturday. His mother rallied after he
| got there, but soon took another re-
| lapse. Physicians were telephoned for,
and Dr. Day arrived at a. m. DR..
| Herbert reached the house little
later
All the efforts possible were put
forth, but the fever continued to in
crease, until it reached something
| over 100. Then the patient died.
Undertaken Fl. II. Williams was sent
! for, and the body, after having been
prepared for burial, was brought to
Honolulu on the Sunday morning
| train and placed in the old WaterhOuse
| family home on Nuuanu avenue. All
morning and afternoon up to the time
of the services. flowers from friends all
over the city arrived in great quaint
ties. Designs of various kinds decor
| ated with the most delicate of the sea-
sons flowers and fashion by loving
hands were numerous.
At o'clock Sunday afternoon the
parlor of the Waterhouse home, con-
nected directly with the sitting room.
where the casket was placed, was filled
with the many friends of the deceased.
The verandas and the walks surround
ing the house were likewise occupied,
there being insufficient room in the
parlor for the many, who came to pay
their last respects to the departed.
The service was a simple, but most
affecting one Rev. d. P. Brine read
from the Bible, and then came the
hymn, Jesus, Lover of My Soul,
of Mrs. Montague-Turner Mrs. e. G.
Damon, Mr.. H. F. Wichman and J. @
Wood, Mrs. B. F. Dillingham; accom-
panying on the piano. The prayer by
Rev. H. w. Peck and the quaret sang
Sweet Bye-and-Bye," the solo in both
being taken by Mrs. Turner. The serv-
ice over, the pallbearers lifted the cas-
ket gently and, passing out among the
many with bowed heads, placed it in
position in the hearse Eight police
officers, with Lieutenant Chamberlain
in command, marched to the grave
yard by the side of the hearSe.
At the H. Waterhouse family lot, in
Nuuanu Cemetery, short service was
held, and the body laid to rest in a
grave of flowers.
The pallbearers were: President
Dole, Minister Damon, Attorney Gen
eral Smith, B. F. Dillingham;, p. G.
Jones, J. B. Anterior, W. w. Hall and
c. P. Iaukea.
Mrs. Henry Waterhouse (nee Julia
Hawkins Dimond) was "a years of age
at the time of her death. She was born
February 10. 1914, in the old mission |
house that used to stand in the place
of the present handsome home of Mr.. |
J. A. Hoppl, King street. Here she |
was raised, together with President |
Dole.
In March of 1869 Julia Hawkins Di-
mond married Mr. Henry Waterhouse,
and from that happy union came five
children-three sons and two daugh
tiers. One of the boys died when quite
young.
Mrs. Warehouse was a lady of
qualities. beloved by all who
knew her, on account of her gener-
Gus mind and a faculty of making ev-
cry one with whom she came in con-
tact the happier for having met her
She was an active worker for the char
table institutions of city and her life
as a Christian lady had its influence in
the surroundings; as wife and moth
ar she was what the Almighty ordained
her to be.