The Press., 1897-05-13
w. C. T. U.
A Remarkable Women.
BY REV. A. H. PLUMB, D. D.

BY REV. A. H. PLUMB, D. D.
 Mrs. Nancy Swift Hanchett, the mother of Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, of Boston, died at Leominster, March 8, at the advanced age of ninety-two years. Two other children mourn her loss, son, pr. T. & Hanchett, a physician of renown in Tor rington, Conn.,, and Mrs. N. $. Chase, of Leominster, Mass, where the last years of her life were spent.
 Her funeral in Leominster, at which Rev. pr. Scott of1ciated, occurred on the morning of March tenth. Memorial ser vices conducted by Rev. P. B. Davis and Rev Drs. Albright, Archibald and Plumb were also held later in the day at the chapel in Forest Hill cemetery, Boston, where she was inferred.
 Mrs. Hanchett was direct descendant of Edward Winslow, elected governor of the Plymouth Colony in 1888, and also from Rev. D. Thomas Tn otcher, the first pastor of the Old South Church, Boston, as 8 non-conformist, was accounted the | first Hebrew and Arabic scholar in this country. Among her ancestry were many prominent persons who were active in resisting religious tyranny in England, and who in America helped to found Harvard College "for Christ and the Church" ;" to secure our national independ- ence, to form the constitution of the United States, to maintain the evangelical faith against the whitening blight of a skeptical rationalism, and generally to aid all patriotic movements, as well as the work of moral and religious reform. Mrs. Hanchett remembered seeing the floor of her fathers house at Barnstable covered at night with the sleeping forms of citizen soldiery, gathered and waiting to repel a threatened British invasion in the war of 1872, so that her memories, as well as the traditions of her family his- tory, aided in giving her, at an early age strongly philanthropic and religious spirit and activity worthy of her honor. able lineage. Naturally, too, she became an ardent sympathizer with her husband, Ephraim Hanchett, who was the first vice. president of Lyman Beecher's pioneer temperance society in Connecticut. and also an intelligent and eloquent advocate of the abolition of slavery. He with his father and grandfather had been active 1T developing that early and famous industry at Salisbury, Conn, by which Washing ton got the iron for his cannon. and oul infant commerce it's anchors and chains Fitly, it is her grandson, Captain Alfred E. Hunt, who had been leading spiri in establishing and guiding another in fant industry, already attaining giant pro poxtions at Niagara, the manufacture O aluminium.
 American society. it has often been re marked, has not sufficiently recognized its indebtedness to the law of heredity il our history. Gratitude is due to God fo keeping alive the succession of able ant worthy men and women who have yer, largely given to our New England an, American life its distinctive impress Mrs. Hanchett was a women richly en dowed, honorably connected and als nobly trained, for by her natural taste and her favorable companionships, sh early attained the three leading element of true education in an intelligent com prehension of the great plans of God fo the happiness of the individual and tn progress of the race, a cordially appreci ative sympathy with those plans, and
 vigorous, self-sacrif1oing cooperation wit them. She thus not only came to attai high degree of personal worth, but als became wholesome and effective fore in society. If the mothers make tn daughters then it is largely owing to he care and prayers that her daughter, obedience to call which her mother | strong faith said came from God, hs
 been the leadiug spirit in the great prov dential movement known the world ove = as the American educational method fc
 the prevention of intemperance, and
 the prosecution of which she has addres f ed more legislative committees and a g sembles than any other person ever di' = and has been instrumental in securir g for over sixteen million children tt - warning instruction of science again
 any indulgence in intoxicating drinks.
 It was a beautiful type of Christia
 womanhood which this venerable motht
 of Israel exhibited, even down to the az
 of ninety-two, with fresh sympathie
 wise counsels and continued progress
 the last. These three things exalt woms to her highest loveliness and her greate s worth-her true vision of Christ, h.
 obedient following of Christ and her To
 ing ministry to Christ, serving His churc
 and His poor.