Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-10-25
DEATH OF DIR. J. S. RICHMOND.

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Word was received here We'd
nesday of the death of DR.. ]. ).
Richmond at his home in Windsor
that morning. He had been Ill Tor
some months with kidney trouble.
He was "a years old. He was
practitioner in Woodstock for years
and many of our residents lose
good friend in his death.
Joseph Sylvester Richmond was
a native OF Pomfret, the son OF Job
Richmond, his parents moving here
when he was quite young and set
Ting on what is now part OF Bill
lings farm, between j. Foster
Rhodes place and the bridge. His
father planted The row Of trees along
the highway over the hill.
DR.. Richmond graduated at the
Vermont Medical College in Wood
stock and practiced medicine here
until his removal to Windsor in
1888. In 1869 he formed part
nership with DR.. O. w. Sherwin,
which continued for some years.
He lived in the village during his
last years here, occupying the
house where O. l.. Richmond now
lives. He had il large practice
and aside from his purely profess
sional services was always doing
something of kindly nature for his
patients. He was an active man all
his life and had many business in
terests at times besides his medical
work.
He was president of the Vermont
Medical Society for two years and
was tor many Years its secretary.
DR.. Richmond was prominent in
Masonry was master of Woodstock
Lodge for five Years, high priest of
O,tauquechee Chapter, and as II
Mason and medical man he was
very well known TIN oughout the
state.
DR.. Richmond married Miss Julia
Weed, daughter of the late Ma
thaniel W eed, who with four chill
dren survive him. His children, all
residing in Windsor. are: Alice,
the wife OF Dr.. E. S. Munger; DR..
Deane Richmond, kimball r. and
Robert.
MRS. GEORGE II. MASS.
Mrs. George H. Mass died very
suddenly Satui dav morning of heart
failure. She had not been we'll for
many months, but her death was
quite unexpected and came as sad
blow to her family and to the
friends she has made in her years of
residence in Woodstock.
Mrs. Mass, who was Miss Helena
{. NJ. Pape, was born in Pyrmont,
Germany, in IS47. She came to
America in 1869 and resided in New
York until her marriage to Mr..
Mass in 1872. After three years
passed in Albany, N. y they came
to oodstock, which has since been
their home.
Four children We're born to them,
the eldest dying IN infancy. There
are surviving, besides the husband,
one daughter, Miss Helena l.. Mass,
two sons, George F. and Maximil-
liam E. Mass; also four brothers,
William, Henry, Frederick and
Charles Pape, all residing in New
York, and three sisters, Mrs. Henry
Wehrum Of Buffalo, N. Y, Miss
Mary Pape of New York, and Mrs.
krebs OF Frankfort on the Nam,
Germany.
Mrs. Mass was a very kindly, at
tractive wo nan, and made OF her
household a home in every sense of
the word--a home to which her
family was bound by the most affec-
tionate ties. And beyond her home,
too, her death will be sincerely
mourned.
The funeral service was held at
the house Monday afternoon at 3
o'clock, Rev. f. G. Putnam attend
ing. The bearers were Messrs. VIM.
!. Boyce, Chas. II. Montague, Geo.
w. Marble and Geo. Aitkcn.