The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-18
OBITUARY.


from her home i'm Glenburn Dec s. and |
laid to rest in Waverly cemetery. There |
stood at her grave, sorrowing, her hus- |
band, eight sons and daughters and many |
others who also loved her. Some two |
years more of life would have brought |
Mrs Leighton to the full three score and |
ten, yet there are many in this region who |
Will remember and still describe the |
beauty and promise of Frances Sisson in |
her youth Her home was among the |
Arlington hills. Eminently noble ana use- |
full lives have been lived and are being |
led there still on the quiet farms but for |
her was fancied a future abroad in the |
world. Yet time brought her no place in |
the realm of society and letters. Her sue
cess was built up of work done square
ly and unwasted days amid the laDors |
and limitations of farm life.
What Is success for a woman? Is 1t to
be to rear ten children with tireless look
ing to the ways of the household, while
intellect and heart and social graces are
kept in fun exercise also, then success
crowned Mrs. Leighton, and abode with
her to the end. What though to accom-
plsh all this the midnight oil burned
and she read while others slept? Her Vi
tality and cheerful courage rose to every
demand. They overhowed in ministries
on every side The church. the sunday
school, the reighborhood to all their
calls she was sufficient No night seemed
too stormy, no fatigue of her own too
great to keep Mrs. Leighton from suf-
fering nCighbor The nourS of her day
were one linked chain of friendly ser
! vice to those outside her gate. To rich
and poor alike the offering was made.
| Something given or lent-something, If
| but a plant or flower or a helpful suS-
| gestion. Always abreast with the liter
! ature and the questions of tho day, Mrs.
| Leighton was bright entertainer, and
! the visitor lover to lingcr under the spell
| alike of her discourse and social charm.
/ She OWNED the moods of all who came.
! The dull and respondent never lett ner
! uncontrolled, nor the Irlficr without an
! uplifting thought. Her worst She kept
! her best she gave"
After so MANY years of this strong life
| it was difficult for Mrs. Leighton to ad-
| nit that time was sapping her endurance
| She repealed the suspicion, Indignantly,
| almost. Those who loved her lelt thdl'
| the days were come for the arm chair,
| for peace and rest. Her children longed
| TO surround her with ease and obserV-
| ance, But spirits like hers have been TOO
| long KEYED to effort ever to relax III
| kind death comes to loosen the heart
| strings"M partner worketh hitherto anu
| | work" she would reply to those VINO
| urged and kent on in the old faithful
| round. Twas but her dust of toll we lett
| upon the hill of rest, close TO the hear1 vi
| the nature she loved, under the sunshine
| and the rain. Herself! She passes IKE
| the morning star "lllNu SO'H. 'i'N
| into the darkened west nor hides ltseH
| among the tempcsts of the sky, but melts
away into the light of heaven
Levi Wolcott Deyoe, Il years OF age
! died at his residence, 32S Decker court
| Thursday morning at II O'Clock from par
alysis He was confined to his bed but
! five DAYS For the past five years he mas
| suffered from rheumatism and about a
| YEAR aro he was injured in runaway
| and has never been as strong since. Ihe
! deceased was well known hereaDoutS'
| having resided here for nearly thlrty
wears He was born in Greene county, \.
| y. in 1926, and later removed with his
fat ather to Tioga county, y. Y, where thcy
were engaged in the tannery business.
| Later they opened Il large grocery store
| in Binghamton. After coming TO Scran-
| ton he was a conductor on the Delaware
| TaCkawanna and Western rallroau LOT
| several years. He left this work ana
went into the hay, feed and grain busl-
ness in which he still was when his fd'al
illness overlook him. His office was To-
| Gated at No. II DoCkash place. HIS Wlle'
| one SON Alden T., and one daughter
| Mrs. Myra Morgan survive him. lie vas
n member of the Simpson Methodist
| church for many years and served as a
member of the official hoard during sew
! rral terms Lately, however he has led
| n retired life owing to the nature OF MS
infrmities. The funeral services will be
held this afternoon at o'clock at the
residence. Interment will be made at The
! DunmoTe cemetery.
John p. Phillips of 9lO2 Washburn
street, died yesterday afternoon at the
West Side hospital Of peculiar malady
or affection of the brain. He was re-
ccivcd at the hospital Wednesday and had
been i'll but few days prcvious.All that
medical skill could suggest was done but
he suCCumbed. The deceased mas resided
i'm West Scranton for many years and was
prominently known as a singer among the
dovotecs of Vocalism, He was about 10
Years old and was employed as miner in
Prices mines. His wife and four young
children one girl ana three boys, sur
yive him. The time Of funeral will he an
nounced later
Mrs. Mary Dempsey aged 30 years, died
Thursday evening at 1925 o'clock after
weeks illness at her home on Wilbur
street Mrs Dempsey has been Ire
long resident of North Scranton and uni
versally liked by many friends. She is
survived by one son. Patrick The tu-
neral will be held tomorrow.