The Republican journal., 1901-05-09


Smile that | am haphy,
Smile that you viii come
10 these spheres of beauty,
10 our spirit home''
She leaves, to mourn the loss of her earth
ly presence, one brother and two sisters,
Josiah Dotten and Mrs. Lucy Smith of Cali
fornia, Mrs. Melvina Pearson of Montville,
Me-, son, John D. Mixer of Rockport and
two daughters, Mrs Charles Sanborn of
Waldo and Mrs. w. B. Cammett of Belfast.
Funer al services were held at her late home
April 29th, Mrs. Wentworth officiating.
The floral offerings, silent tributes of love
,, from her many friends, included bouquets
from Mrs. c. II. Smith, Mrs Ellen Mckinley,
Miss Bertha Clements, Mrs George San
born; flower piece, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac G.
Sanborn; pillow, DR.. and Mrs. Pearson; cut
| flowers, Mrs. Margie Gurney, Mrs. Melvina
Pearson, Miss Ruth S. Cammett, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Sanborn, Mrs James Went
worth.
| Edward J. Cunningham died in New York
| city May Sd, aged SO years. He had been in
failing health for some time, but his condi-
thought to be recovering from what proved to
be his last illness when death came suddenly
| from neuralgia of the heart He was born
| in Montville and his early years were spent
upon his fathers farm. When young man
he went to New Jersey and entered the en-
ploy of his uncle, Edward Brown, a large
contractor and bridge builder. Mr. Brown
| L,; \ =,
and Mr.. Cunningham was a for number of
F, years the resident manager. After his
uncle's death he became interested in other
lines of business, including lighterage in
| New ork harbor. In all the years of absence
and close attention to business he never lost
his love for his early home and the friends
and companions of his boyhood, and each
summer he made visit to Belfast and Mont
| vile. He never married, and his affections
all centered in his sisters and his nephews
and nieces, to whom he was specially de-
voted and who will miss him sadly One
sister. Mrs. Nesmith, died quite recently at
her home in Brooklyn, n Y, and two sis
ters survive him, Mrs. Leonard Cooper of
Belfast and Mrs. Charles Lunt of South
Paris, Me. Services were held at the home
of the Misses Nesmith in Brooklyn, n. Y,
and the remains were then sent to Belfast,
arriving here Monday night. Tuesday morn
! ing services were held at the home of Mrs
| Leonard Cooper on Church street, Rev. Geo.
S. Mills officiating, and the interment was
in the family lot in Montville. During the
! services Mr.. Mills read favorite poem of
the deceased, of whom it may here be said
that he was a good man in every sense of
the word a man of the strictest integrity,
of generous and kindly impulses, one to
whom an unkind word or deed was impossi-
ble
| Mrs. Catherine Calderwood died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Alvin Blodgett,
No. SO Cedar street, last Thursday morning,
after a very severe illness of but few
days duration. She had been an intense
sufferer at times for nearly three years,
from a cancerous trouble, but was able to
be up and attend to many duties about the
house until within few days before her
| death. She bore her pain with great forti-
tude, and one who met her occasionally and
noted her cheerful disposition and smart
/ appearance would never have suspected
that much of her life was spent in great
pain. She never iDtruded her own troubles
upon the notice of others, was ever cheer
full and pleasant, and through her long life
was always found ready and willing to
lend a helping hand to any one in trouble.
Her maiden name was Rhodes and she was
born in Northport, Sept. %, 1922 She was
married Dec 1, 1874, to James CalderwoOd
of Belfast, and they lived on a farm on the
Halls Corner road many years. He died in
May, 1876. OF their six children, three sons
and one daughter remain: James Calder
wood of Milton, Mass. Edwin W. Calder
wood of Los Angeles, Calf. Mrs. Mary E..
Blodgett and Luther Calderwood of Belfast.
She leaves two sisters, Mrs. Celia Prentiss
of Augusta and Mrs. Nancy Patterson of
Northport, and one half-sister, Mrs. Jane
Wingate of Troy. The funeral was held at
her late home Saturday afternoon. Rev. G..
E. Edgett officiating. The interment was
in the family lot in Grove Cemetery. The
following were among the floral offerings
a pillow with the word "Mother" from Mr.
and Mrs. Alvin Blodgett; crescent from
Mrs. E. S. Mcdonald and Miss Clara Patter-
son cut flowers from Mrs. Geo. W. Swift,
Mrs. Samuel Kingsbury, Mrs. Sherman G.
Swift, Mrs. Robert Hart, Miss Lovisa Hart,
the Good Templars, Luther Calderwood,
Misses Fannie and Susie Robertson, Fannie
| Welch, Annie NJ. Blodgett, MIR. and Mrs.
Geo. A. Blodgett and Wilbur r. Blodgett..
Mr.. and Mrs Adelbert Whitney of Big
timber, Mont: have the sympathy of many
friends in their bereavement, in the loss of
their little son Maurice, who died April
oath. Mrs. Whitney was formerly Miss
Lena, daughter of Lura and the late Charles
W. Haney of this city. g