News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-10-23
DEATH of Mrs. Hattie Rich Perry.


ers Rich Perry, were brought here
from LowviIle, New York, yesterday,
anu inferred in the beautiful family
lot of C. A. Rich, in Pleasant View
Cemetery. As but few of her rela-
tives and many friends from here
were able to attend her funeral in
Lowville, brief services were held IN
the cemetery, Rev. DR.. Booth otfici-
ating.
Mrs. Perry will be best remembered
here as Miss Hattie Somers Rich, the
youngest daughter of our esteemed
townsman, c. A. Rich, Director of
The Union Savings Bank & Trust
Co., in Morrisville. She was born in
Morrisville, April 6, 1871, and here
spent all the early part of her brief
life. In 1888 she graduated from
Peoples Academy, taking with her
the highest esteem of both her teach
er and classmates. The year follow
ing her graduation, she a her
fathers clerk in the postofice, he
being the postmaster at the time !;
But longing for a higher education
she entered the female seminary at
Mount Holyoke at the beginning of
the next college year. Here she soon
took high rank among her fellow
students. By her ever genial ways
and kindly spirit, together with her
aptitude as a scholar, and her cheer
full obedience to every demand, she
won the confidence and respect of all
in the institution, and at the end of
her college course 1888, graduated
as salutarian of her class. The two
years following her graduation she
was instructor in the sciencesin Low
vile Academy, New York, a position
she most admirably and worthily
filled, and for which she received high
commentator.
Deserving as well as needing a re-
spite from her trying tasks of six
years of faithful school work, she
took, what she called q kind of va
cation, by serving for a year as
book-keeper with the Savings Bank
& Trust Co.
During her teaching term in Low.
vile, she made the acquaintance of
William 81. Perry, Principal of the
institution in which she was in
structor-an acquaintance which at
length ripened into friendship and
love, and which finally resulted in
their marriage, August II, 1896.
From thence on to the time of her
death she made it her home in Low
vile, where her husband has been,
and still is, the Principal of that in
stitution.
OF her marriage, there have been
born to her three children, Mildred R.,
born in August, 1897, Robert W.,
May, 1899, and Florence E., April 81,
1901. Soon after the birth of her
little Florence, she began to decline
in health, and although the best
medical skill that was to be had, and
the tenderest care that love and
means could command were sum.
moned to her aid, she still declined
on, rallying a little now and then,
however, just enough t%oarouse hope,
and give a day or two of respite to
watching, anxious hearts, but dis
ease finally conquered on October 10,
1901, leaving her three little mother
less children in the arms of their
grief stricken father. God pity them
all. Thus has gone out in the early
prime of wOmanhoOd, a life of the
loveliest of natures, and of the most
noble type, full of hope and great
with promise, one whose life had it
been spared, was destined to do
great good. But now all seems to
have been untimely cut short, but
we are left the assurance that her
work has not yet achieved its final
result, for she is not dead, only Sleep
ing, and the work that she has done
and begun will still go on to bless the
world that is already better for her
having lived in it.
In religious faith, Mrs. Perry was a
Universalist, and ever an earnest
worker in behalf of that faith. She
very early gave promise of the pres
nee in her soul of warm religious
instincts, and when quite young en-
gagged in the active work of the
church. She soon grew to be so
much interested in it that she fully
allied herself with it, and died a con-
sistent member of it.
Funeral services we're held in Low
vile on Sunday Oct. 20, at 3 p, M,
a large number of her Lowville
neighbors being present. Besides
those already named Mrs. Perry
leaves a sister. mrs. Jessie Thomp-
son of Rutland, Vt, Leon Rich of
Peterborough, N. H., and Harvey
M. Of this place also, a large con-
curse of relatives and friends to
mourn for her.
"a dose in time saves lives" DR.. Woods