Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1903-05-07
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Stinence.
He was one of the first members to join
the Rochdale Equitable Pioneer society,
which has become the model for succeed
ing forms of cooperative societies, and he
kept up his interest in the cooperative
movement during the rest of his long life.
He came to the United States about 1854
and lived for some years in North Nassal-
boro, Maine.
About 1864 he went to Cambridgeport,
Vt, and lived there until about 1872, after
which he moved to SaXtons River, where
he passed the remainder of his life. He
took great interest in educational mat
tiers both in England and the United
States.
He was strong abolitiontist in England
and when he came to the United States he
naturally became republican and ex-
pressed anti-slavery opinions and senti-
ments when it was unpopular to do so.
His love for flowers is well known to all
who knew him. and his flower garden was
his pleasure an recreation.
He was a modest man of sterling honesty
and uprightness in word and deed. He
had cheerful disposition, was lover of
| humanity, and did his best in aid of the
! good causes of his time.
He left two sons, George Hill, a lawyer
in New York city DR.. Edwin w. Hill, of
Chenille, Ohio; four grandchildren, Dr..
James S. Hill of Bellows Falls; Henry
Hill of Saxtons River; Mrs. " lillian An
derson of England; and Miss Mary j.
Hill, who has lived with him for the past
10 years; also six great-grandchilden
| The funeral service was held in the Bap-
fist church Sunday afternoon at o'clock,
Revs. A. E. Foote and G.F. Chaplin otfciat-
ing. The choir sang two hymns. There
were many beautiful floral tributes from
relatives and friends. There was a large
attendance at the church. which testified
TO ic,1,n oh, ha, 1a1l
this community The remains were in
tered in the village cemetery.
THE PASSING OF THO LIONS.
TwiIight's dusk around me fal ing memory
backward swift is calling,
To the scenes of joy and pleasure and the
happy times of yore,
| When, in quietneSS I'm broken, save when
random word was spoken,
We, with no foreboding token of the grief
for us in store,
From the postotfice piazza gazed the dusty
At the chains the lions wore
Many years, with stern demeanor, never
fatter, never leaner,
At the village inn-house famous kept they
guard above its door:
And we wondered how they stood it, and
surmised they sometimes rued it
If they did, they well subdued it-and we
asked the question oer
"Will Marsh run the place forever, as he
always has before?'
People said ''Forevermore.
Visitors with curious wonder,as they stood
it's portals under,
/ Would repeat the same inquiry we had
often made before.
Yes, we thought that they We're fixtures awe
and pleasure in strange mixtures,
Ac scanned tbair hp1,na1y ,io
swelled within our bosoms' core,
And we shuddered at the sorrow that would
sweepthe village DER,
When the lions We're no more.
But to all things Time brings changes, and
as now my memory ranges
| In its reverieS and dreamingS through the
days far gone before,
Doleful news my mind is learning thoughts
of peace to sadness turning,
AS hear the tidings burning, that Marsh
owns the house no more,
And-O Time, thou art unfeeling-that the
lions we adore
VIII be with us nevemore.
Tell me" thus I fiercely mutter. chow
you can such tidings utter?
Do you say It's Progress calls you to such
vandalism sore?''
So it is. But with deep feeling we regret
the ruthless dealing
! That intlicts such wounds unloading ron
the memories of yore;
And the lions as theyvanish on the further
Stygian shore
Bear our thoughts forevermore.
Ever yet while life shall tarry shall 1 fond
affection carry
For the sunny SaXtons River, where still
swings my homestead's door;
Yet with pleasant recollection there will
come one sad reflection,
| And twill seem an imperfection when |
! reach the town once more
If the lions that so watchfully have glared
! its Main street DER
1 shall look ON nevermore.
r. o. HUGHES,
/ Wellesley, Mass, May ,, 1903.