Connecticut western news., 1897-03-18
DEATH REMARKABLE WOMAN.

two years. Two other children mourn her loss, a son, Dr Thatcher s, Han- chett, physician of renown in Tor rington, Conn, and Mrs N. s. Chase, of Leominster, Mass where the last years of her life had been spent.
 Her funeral in Leominster. at which Rev Dr Scott officiated, occurred on the morning of the tenth instant Memorial services 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 Hills cemetery, Boston, where she was intered.
 Mrs Hanchett was a direct descend ant from Edward Winslow, elected governor of the Plymouth Colony in 1888, aud also from Rev D. Thomas Thatcher, the first pastor of the Old South Church, Boston, a man who though shut out from Oxford as a non- comformist, 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 in- dependence, to form the Constitution of the United States, to maintain the Evangelical faith against the whitening blight of sceptical rationalism. and generally to aid all patriotic movements as we'll as the work of moral and relig- ious reform.
 Mrs Hanchett rem mbered seeing the floor of her fathers house at Barps- table covered at night with the sleeping forms of citizen soldiery gathered and waiting to repeal threatened British invasion in the war of 1872. so that her memories. as we'll as the traditions of b, r family history aided in giving her. at an early age, strongly philanthropic and religious spirit and activity worthy of her honorable 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 in- telligent and eloquent advocate of the abolition of slavery. He with his father and grandfather had been active in developing that early and famous ! industry at Salisbury. Conn.,, by which Washington got the iron for his cannon, and our infant commerce it's anchors and chains. Fitly as has been her grandson, Captain Alfred B Hunt, who has been leading spirit in establishing and guiding another infant industry, already attaining giant proportions, at Niagara, the manufacture of aluminium. American society, it has often been said. has not sufficiently recognized its indebtedness to the law of heredity in our history. Gratitude is due to God | for keeping alive the succession of able and worthy men and women who have made up our leading families, and who have very largely given to our New England and American life it's distinctive impress.
 Mrs Hanchett was woman richly endowed, honorably connected, and also nobly trained, for by her natural I tastes and her favored compsnionships, ahe early attained the three leading elements of true education, an intelli. gent comprehension of the great plans of God for the happiness of the individ- ual and the progress of the race, cor dially appreciative sympathy with those plans, and vigorous self-sacrifcing CO., operation with them. She thus not only came to attain high degree of personal worth, but also became a wholesome and effective force in soci- ety.
 | If the mothers make the daughters, then it is largely owing to her care and prayers that her daughter, in obedience to call which her mothers strong faith said came from God, has been the leading spirit in the great proyidentlal movement known the world over as the American Educational Method for the Prevention of Intemperance. and in the prosecution of which she has addressed more legislative committees and assem- plies than any other person ever did, and has been instrumental in securing for over sixteen millions of children the warming instruction of science against any indulgence in intoxicating drinks.
 It was beautiful type of Christian womanhood, which this venerable Moth. CT in Israel exhibited, even down to the age of ninety-two, with fresh sympa. thies, wise counsels and continual
 prayers to the last. By such lives
 human progress is marked, as the felicitous expression of Rev Dr Storrs declares: "It is fact significant of the past. prophetic for the future, that
 even as Dante measured his successive ascents in Paradise, not by immedia {
 consciousness of movement, but by seeing an ever lovelier beauty in the face of Beatrice, so the race now counts
 the gradual steps of it's spiritual pro-
 gress ont of the ancient heavy glooms
 toward the glory of the Christian Mil lennium, not by mechanisms, not by
 cities, but by the ever new grace and
 force exhibited by the woman who was
 for ages either the decorated toy oi
 man, 'or his despised and abiecl
 drudge"
 The secret of the highest type oi Christian womanhood, such as this sainted disciple showed. can be learned
 from 8 single verse in che inspired
 description of the darkest hour oI