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A REMARKABLE WOMAN.
Death at Cambridge, Mass. Of Mrs. hapsOod
OF Peru.

Death at Cambridge, Mass, Of Mrs. haPsood
OF Peru.
Mrs n. b. Hapgood died in Cam
bridge, Masa., February 4th, and was
buried last week Sunday in the village
cemetery at Peru. Services we're held
both at Cambridge, where the casket
was loaded With flowers by her many
friends, and at the church in Peru.
Mrs Hapgood was over ninety -one at
the time of her death. She was born
in a log house on the old Peru turn
pike above the old Barnard homestead.
Her father was Benjamin Barnard,
one Of the earliest settlers, who mar
ried Hepsabeh Philbrick; be cleared
all the land on bis farm, accumulated
a handsome fortune and raised q fam
lily of seven children. Only one row
remaiDs-Uharles Barnard Of Illinois
One Of the daughters, Nancy, married
Hon Ira Batchelder; another, Emily,
was the subject Of Mrs A. ID. 7. Whit
uey's poem, The Home Maker
The family we're all remarkable for
Industry, enterprise and character, and
Mrs Hapgood retained her activity up
to the close of Der loug and usefur
life. While a girl she helped spin and
weave quite all the cloth used 10 the
family, two hundred pounds Of wool
and fax being thus worked up each
year. She so improved her educational
advantages that she was fitte, to teach
two terms in each school district of
the town before she was married at the
age Of q. During her last years her
bands were always busy in some work
of love or charity.
She was a teacher in the first Sun
day school ever established in town,
about 70 years ago, and go remained
for fifty years, to the time Of her re-
moval to Cambridge in 1876 Sue al
so was a life member of the American
Board Of Missions, and for many years
was the local agent for the Home for
the F'iendless 10 New York She pur-
chased and sent from Boston the hand
some pews now in the church 10 Peru.
She was intensely interested in the
soldiers Of the Rebellion and during
the war her hone was the centre for
supplies for the boys at the front ard
the hospitals. H9r hand was crippled
for life in scrapi G lint for the SOL
diers When the Vermont Brigade
came to New York to quell the riot,
she, unattended, went to meet it.
Her husband was J. ). Hapgood
whom she married in 1892. He, also,
took a very active interest in matters
of public welfare and built large
part of the present ediices of the viii
lage, including the church, parsonage
and schoolhouse,
She was the mother of six children.
two dying in childhood. Four remain:
Miss G. H. Hapgood OF Cambridge,
Luke B and Charles NJ. Of Easton,
Pa, and Marshall j., who occupies
the old homestead at Peru.
The closing words of Rev Mr. Brown
at the cemetery we're:
"The star is not extinguished when it sets,
But passes on to shine in other skies"
Here, mot ia. away the once home
in which her life began; yonder the
roof beneath which she spent nearly
half century of happy married life
hard by, our house of worship, with,
for her and of her. all its garnered
memories; within sound of our Sab
bath bell; all around us the paths her
living feet SO oft have trod; and side
by side with kindred dust, we leave
this house of her earthly tabernacle,
looking forward with joyous hope to
the morning of the resurrection.