Connecticut western news., 1897-03-11

tomorrow and will lie in stato from 10 a. m. until D. m, when public funeral serv Ices will be held under the direction of Rev Lyman Abbott, who succeeded the late Henry Ward Beecher as pastor of his- toric Plymouth church A remarkable oo. incidence is that Mrs. Beecher died on the senth anniversary of her husbands death.
 Eunioe White Beecher, wlfe of the re. nowned pulpit orator. was born at West Sutton, Worcester county, Mass, Ss years
 lso. Sho was tho daughter of physician, Dr. Artemas Bullard, whose son was n
 student at Amherst college at the same lime as Mir. Beecher
 It was in this way that she came to meet her future husband. Tho latter was Invited by young Bullard to spend vaca. ton at West Sutton
 After they had known one another but a very short while thoy became betrothed, though she was not IS years of age and he was about the same ago. Itwas not un. til seven years later, however. whom Beech CT had already been ordained and called to his first charge at Lawronccburg, Ind i, that they were married. For two years Mir. and Mrs Beecher remained at Law rcnceburg, where they lived very frugally, i for Mir. Beecher's income was none of the | largest.
 Mrs Beeoher has told of their early ex. | periences in housekeeping. They had llt- | tie money. Boarding was not to be I 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 Q laborer and his wife Having cleaned the rooms thoroughly they next foll to sock. i ing furniture.
 | Starting Housekeeping. Mrs- Beecher has given vivid descr!p. ton Of how they picked up. n study table ] and chair here, scrap of old carpet therc and all the other little things that wcrc ] necessary to furnish their new apartments. Sometimes 1t was the remains of an old I bookshe found among the rubbish that
 had been thrown into the back yard as i kindling wood, which was carefully clean. 1 ed and varnishcd and placed against the f wall of Mir. Beecher's study. sometimes the remains of an old coat. good for moth. ! Ing else, which was carefully clcaned and converted into a tahle cover. So by do
 gieos they succeeded in making themselyos d home.
 Afterward they moved to Indianapolis, ' whcrc they remained until ls4i, when Mr
 Boccher was called to Plymouth church in 1 Brooklyn. Mrs. Bcecher had ten children, \ of whom only fonr-thleo sons and a i daughter-are now living. During most ! of tho latter part of her life she dwclt in a
 little house on the corner of Hicks aud 1 Orange streets, Brooklyn.
 It wns at the Beecher home In Indian, i apolls, 1t Is said, that Harriet Beeoher ' Stowe, tho prenchcr's celebrated sister. re. ' ceivel tho inspiration whlcls resulted in { the production of Uncle Toms Cabin" Mrs. Beecher went to port Townshend,
 Wash. in August, 1885, unattended, to
 celebrate her eighty third birthday and to
 visit her youngest son, Herbert She stood
 the journey sell and returned in good
 health and spirits 4 few months ago she went to visit her daughter. Mrs. Samuel Seoylile in Stamford, and while there fell
 and fracturcd her hip This accident
 proved too much for her vitality. She was
 never aftorward ablo to leave SAe house
 and sank slowly but surely until her oSith. i Mrs Bccchor's living children are Mrs.
 Samuel Scoville of Stamford, Colonel Henry Barton Becchor of Brooklyn, Will
 liam, lawyer. with an office in tho Broad.
 way bank building, New York, and Her
 bert, captain of steamship on tho Pacific | coast