The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-01-07
OBITUARY.

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Mr.. Albion N. Gilmore died of paralysis
Dec. 30th at the home of his sister, Mrs.
Charles Wilson, in Dorchester, Mass, aged
"a years. Mr.. Gilmore was one of fam
lily of four sons and one daughter, chill
dren of Mr.. Nathaniel and Mary (Bean)
Gilmore. Mr.. Gilmore was born in that
part of Belfast, Me-, later incorporated as
the town of SearspOrt As a boy he was
engaged on his fathers farm, but not liking
it, while yet young man he abandoned it
and went to Unity and learned the carpen-
tering trade. After finishing his appren-
ticeship he went to Boston and continued
in the trade until poor health forced him to
leave it. He then decided to try sea-
faring life and engaged in the coasting
trade In few years he changed for the
foreign branch, in which he continued a
few years after the discovery of gold in
California. He left the sea in the early
ffties in San Francisco and went into the
gold mines, where his older brother Albert
had been engaged for several years. Here
he continued with fair success for num-
Der of years, but his early knowledge of
carpentering induced him to leave it and
engage in putting heavy machinery into
mills for separating and refining gold and
silver from the ores in mines in California,
Nevada and Colorado, at which he worked
until six years since, when i'll health obliged
him to retire and come east, where he divided
the time with his brother, Atwood A., Of
Searsport, and his sister in Dorchester.
Mr.. Gilmore was a member of the Doric
Lodge of Masons of Hudson, Mass. He
was never married
On Dec. %, 1903, in Cambridge, Mass,
Mrs. Sarah R., widow of Thomas Knowl-
ton, passed from the ministry of loving
hands to the higher life A period of twen-
ty-eight months of weary waiting was mark
ed by the sweet patience that characterized
her entire life. The close of the earthly
journey was in keeping with her gentle
personality and she sank peacefully to rest
like ''him who wraps the drapery of his
couch around him and lies down to pleasant
Dreams" The funeral services were held
at the home of her daughter. Mrs. J. II.
Elwell, and were largely attended by true
sympathizing friends. The profusion of
flowers amid which she slept spoke just
tribute to the four-score years well lived in
the spirit of the charity that never faileth
She is survived by daughter, granddaugh-
ter, and one sister The interment was in
Northp0rt, Maine, to which place the re-
mains were accompanied by her son-in-law,
Mr.. j. II. Elwell
A telegram was received here Monday
morning announcing the death the previous
evening OF Mary E., widow of the late Jo-
seph l.. Havner, at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. A. S. Stoney, in Cambridge, Mass
She was a native of Cherryfeld, Me-, and
her maiden name was Burnham. Her hus-
band died in Belfast December 10, 1903,
and she went soon after to Cambridge to
live With her daughter. She is survived by
three daughters and one son: Fannie, wife
of A. S. Stoney of Boston; Kittie, wife of g.
V. Kennedy of Milo; Evelyn, wife of Frank
I. Carter of Belfast and William j Havner
of Boston. She was member of the Con-
gregational church of Belfast, and was one
whose life was devoted to good deeds. The
remains arrived in Belfast Wednesday
evening and funeral services will be
held this. Thursday, afternoon at 2oclock,
at the residence of John Dollotf on Con-
gress street.
William Flanders died at his home in
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80 years. He was born in North Waldo
boro, Aug. %, 1921, and lived there until
grown to manhood, when he bought farm
in Morrill, and lived there about 1S years.
He then moved to Waldo, which had since
been his home. He was son of Dan
iel and Mehitabel (Crocker) Flanders, one
of eleven children of whom only one sur
wives, Mrs. Alvina Winchenbach of Wash
! ingtOn, Me- He was man of genial ma
ture, kind husband and father, and will
be sadly missed ia his family. He was not
church member, but was a reader and
lover of the Bible, and died in the faith that
closing his eyes on this world he would
open them on one fairer and more beauti-
full. He died of consumption, but was con-
fined to his bed only three weeks. He
leaves wife and six children-Mrs. A. A.
Woodbury. of Morrill,, Ira j. of Knox,
George A. of Howard, R. l., Seldom A. Of
Belfast, and Delbert and Willie, with whom
he made his home.
News has been received of the death in
Whitman, Mass, after a short illness of
pneumonia, of Mrs. Margaret j. Spaulding,
formerly of Waldo. She was born in the
town of Knox, March 7th, 1898, a daughter
of Nathaniel and Margaret Jackson. Her
mother died when she was an infant. In
early life she married John A. L. Spauld-
ing of LincOlnville and to them were born
fourteen children, of whom thirteen are
now living. OF her fathers family only
two remain-N. L. and R. NJ. Jackson OF
Morrill,. Although afflicted for many wears
with that dread disease, asthma, she was
always pleasant and cheerful in her family
| and with her friends, of whom she had
| many. We can truly say that kind and
atfe ctiOnate wife, mother and sister has
left us and we shall miss her presence here
on earth, yet we feel that our loss is her
gain.-N. L. j.
Mrs. Joanna P. Pitcher died at her home
in Bangor December 31st, after an illness
of but two days, of bronchial pneumonia
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