St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-10-25
RECENT DEATHS.
Cole.


II. Blossom, died Monday night, at the
residence OF her daughter and only child
on Church street, after an illness Of some
six weeks duration, having taken to her
bed three weeks ago.
Mrs. Cole was born in Lttleton, N. H.,
in 1919, and was consequently eighty
years old. After her marriage she lived
in Manchester, N. H., for a while, and
subsequently. about 46 years ago, moved
to Whitefeld, N. H., where she resided
until dozen years ago, when she came
to st. .Johnsbury. She was woman of
much literary taste. and had considerable
ability as a writer of stories and poems
was remarkably well preserved, and
maint aimed to the last keen interest in
what was going on in the world. Since
the organization of the Seventy Club
Mrs. Cole had been its efficient secretary
and treasurer and was highly esteemed
by all her associates. She was devoted
member of the Free Baptist church while
in White6eld.
There will be brief service at the
house on Thursday morning at 7.45.
and it is hoped that many members of
the Seventy Club will be present. The
remains will be taken to White6eld for
interment.
Among all the benign and gracious
women who have gone forth from st.
| Johnsbury to make center OF usefulness
elsewhere, no one can have surpassed
the subject of this notice.
Born in 1886, Caroline Warner,
daughter of the late George W. and
Mary j. Ely of St. Johnsbury, VT,
married in 1865 Dr. B. d. Eastman and
died in Topeka, Kansas, October 16.
Soon after going to Kansas in the
spring of 1879, Mrs. Eastman was
thrown from carriage. No harm was
at first suspected, but afterwards it
became apparent that the spine was
severely injured, laying the foundation
for long years Of suffering, preventing in
increasing degree the discharge of those
gracious ministries she loved and per-
formed so well, and ultimately rendering
her helpless and causing her death. She
bore this long and painful disability with
wonderful patience and fortitude. For
her, freedom from the enslavement of the
body is an entering into the heavenly
rest; to her husband and son it is sad
though not unexpected sundering of
sacred ties, more tender because of the
long invalidism through which they
cared for her so faithfully.
Nearly all her married life was spent in
circumstances peculiarly adapted to call
into activity her unusual executive
ability and to afford opportunity for the
exercise of her warm benevolent i'm
pulses. DR.. Eastman was superinten-
dent for seven years Of the great lunatic
asylum in Worcester, Mass, and of that
almost equally large in Topeka, Kansas,
for nearly eighteen years, and previously
was assistant superintendent the state
asylum at Concord, N. H., and the
government asylum at Washington, d.
c. In each of these places, Mrs. East
man, as wife OF the superintendent, i'm
proved her opportunities to the full in
numberless and constant efforts to give
the unfortunate patients as much as
possible OF good cheer and comfort.
How successful she was in this, how
thoughtful, how tactful, how forceful,
yet how charitable and gracious in her
voluntary ministries, can never be fully
recorded. 1t was the wonder of all
observers.
The same noble womanly qualities
were manifested in all other relations of
life. She was most dutifu daughter,
affectionate sister, helpful friend delight
full in society, loving wife, and devoted
mother, always selfsacri6cing, thinking
first Of Others, planning and doing for all
within her reach She was born home
maker. No woman was ever more
beloved.
Ofhe immediate family, her husband
and one son survive, one daughter, Mary,
dying at seven years OF age, and Marga-
ret at nine.
1t will be gratifying to all friends of
Mrs Eastman to know that although so
far away from her old home and kindred,
she had during all the years of her
invalidism the inestimable companion
ship and minstering care OF most
devoted friend in Miss Maria Warren,
who remained with her to the last.
Samuel N. Stone, aged 61, the senior
member OF the firm of Stone, Tracy &
Co., OF Windsor, died on Monday last
after brief illness. He was a member
of the late firm OF Tuxbury & Stone for
about 80 years and widely known.
Mr., Stone was cousin of the late c.
M. Stone, and of Mrs. Mary B. Paige OF
this town.
Parks.
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