Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-03-12

until p m, when public funeral serv-
ices will be hold under the direction of
Rev. Lyman Abbott, who succeeded the
late Henry Ward Beeoher as pastor Of his
toric Plymouth church. A remarkable Co
Incidence is that Mrs. Beecher died on the
tenth anniversary of her husbands death.
Eunioe White Beecher, wife of the re-
nowned pulpit orator was born at West
Sutton, Worcester county, Mass, "a years
ago She was the daughter Of physician,
DIR. Artemas Bullard, whose son was a
student at Amherst college at the same
time as Mr. Beecher.
1t was In this way that she came to
meet her future husband. The latter was
invited by young Bullard TO spend vaea-
tion at West Sutton.
After they had known one another but a
very short while they beoaifse be.rotned
though she was not 1s years of age and
he was about the same age. 1t was not un-
til seven years later, however when Beech
or had already been ordained and called 70
his first charge at Lawrenceburg, Ind. +,
that they were married. For two years
Mr.. and Mrs. Beeoher remained at Law
renceburg, where they lived very frugally,
for Mr. Beecher's income was none of the
largest.
Mrs. Beecher has told of their early ex-
periences in housekeeping. They had lit
tie money. Boarding was not to be
thought Of for 1t would have swallowed
up her husbands income. At last they
found two rooms, dirty beyond description,
which had formerly been occupied by a
laborer and his wife. Having cleaned the
rooms thoroughly, they next fell to seek
ing furniture
Starting Housekeeping.
Mrs. Beecher has given vivid descrip-
tion of how they picked up study table
and chair here, a scrap of old carpet there
and all the other little things that were
necessary to furnish their new apartments.
Sometimes it was the remains Of an old
bookshelf found among tho rubbish that
had been thrown into the back yard as
kindling wood, which was carefully clean
cd and vanished and placed against the
wall of Mr.. Beeoher's study, sometimes
the remains of an old coat, good for moth
ing else, which was carefully cleaned and
converted into table cover. So by de-
grees they succeeded In making themselves
home.
Afterward they moved to Indianapolis,
where they remained until 1847, when Mr..
Beecher was called to Plymouth church In
Brooklyn. Mrs. Beecher had ten children,
Of whom only four--three sons and a
daughter-are now living. During most
Of the latter part of her life she dwolt in a
little house on the corner Of Hicks and
Orange streets, Brooklyn.
1t was at the Beecher home in Indian.
apolis, It Is said, that Harriet Beeoher
Stowe, the preachers celebrated sister. re.
ceived the inspiration which resulted in
the production of Uncle Toms Cabin.
Mrs. Beecher went to Port Townshend,
Wash, IN August, 1895, unattended, to
celebrate her eighty-third birthday and tc
visit her youngest son, Herbert. She stood
the journey well and returned In good
health and spirits. A few months ago she
went to visit her daughter, Mrs Samuel
Scoyille, in Stamford, and while there fell
and fractured her hip. This accident
proved too much for her vitality. She was
never aftorward able to leave the house
and sank slowly but surely until her death.
Mrs Beecher's living children are Mrs
Samuel Scoville Of Stamford, Colonel
Henry Barton Beecher of Brooklyn, vii
liam, a lawyer. with an Office in the Broad
way bank building, New York, and Her
bert, captain of a steamship on the Pacific
coast