Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-10-06
GRAFTON.
Mrs. Lucy Barrett Daniels

A life of remarkable worth, of sweet
and attractive grace, passed from this com
munity in the death of Mrs. Lucy Barrett
Daniels on the I'd inst, the first day of her
18th year. She had been in usual health,
never of late robust, until the previous
week, when a slight attack of Indigestion
kept her in her room a few days; but on
Sunday, her 10th birthday anniversary,
she came down stairs, received calls Of
congTatulation from number of friends
and spent the evening with her family.
The next morning she felt able to rise, but
fingered in bed, and while, about noon,
conversing with a son visiting from Chi
cago, and one of her daughters, a gush of
blood filled her mouth and the animating
spirit was instantly gone. Goods finger
touched her and she slept" Her life had
been so well lived through all her days that
she needed no extreme ministrations. The
transition, though sudden, could not have
been violent. 1t may, indeed, be as conf
IDENTIFY said in just praise Of her as 1t was
of Isaac Walton that "heaven was in h er
before. she was in heaven"
This was her native town and It has al
ways been her home. With the exception
of her school days away from here, and
winters of late in New York or Washing
| ton, Mrs Daniels has always been in Graf
! ton and filed a wide sphere with the &C
| tivities and influence of her benefcent life.
| Here in a quiet corner of the world she
! lived simply and purely finding here an
environment which furnished room for the
| development of noble aspirations and adj
mtted her into sympathetic relations with
a wider world.
She inherited from her father, Captain
~ r a.. - Co.. tl.r s.E
Revolutionary fame, a strong and vital ma
ture, tenacious of the right, and from her
mother, the Lady Bountiful' of her
time in Grafton, sympathetic disposition,
qualities which would have made her a
force for righteousness and blessing-a no.
table woman, an ornament TO society in
any town or CITY, Early in life she be-
came a member of the Congregational
church and was always deeply devoted to
the great interests it stands for here and
throughout the world. Since the death Of
her husband, Francis Daniels, Esq, some
20 years ago, she has repeated from year to
year the liberal donations which he made
to the support of the church as he had
continued those of her father.
To an observer Mrs. Daniels's life would
seem to have been highly favored one.
She was well born, happily married; she
had six unusually fine children, four sons
and twoldaughters, and all survive her ex-
cept one son, and means TO provide pleas
ant home where she dispensed a grateful
hospitality to a wide circle of friends, and,
not the least of all, made it welcome
place for any less fortunate who wished TO
come near her kindly spirit. In her last
days il is scarcely necessary to say that
she had "that which should accompany
age, love, honor and troops of friends"
That such lives, though rare, are posi-
sible in town like this shows that the
deep springs of that which is best in hui
man nature are nourished by spiritual
rather than material forces, and only the
hopeless pessimist can despair of their be-
ing repeated. 1t is the good fortune of
Grafton that this life was lived here. 1t
adds a fresh attraction to our "storied
past that here
| "All that is beautiful in woman
All that in her nature love,
| All that's good and all that's human,
| Passed these gates TO courts above