New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-08-03
HER EARTHLY LABORS CEASE
Mrs. Pauline E. Beecher Passes
Quietly Away.
Died Yesterday Morning at the
Home of Her Son.
Funeral Will be Held Tomorrow
at Fort Dodge, Iowa.

minated the sufferings of Mrs. Pauline
e. Beecher and her spirit took its de-
parture into the realms that know no
pain. Although the end was not unex-
pected, it came, nevertheless, as a
great shock to the community and cast
shadow of gloom over the wide cir
Gle of her acquaintance.
Mrs. Beecher was So years of age
and her last illness was of six week S
duration. Although the immediate
cause of her death was heart trouble
and complication of other diseases,
her infrmity was really of long stand
ing. In fact she has never been we'll
since the tragic death of her eldest
son, Lieut.. A. NJ. Beecher, of the Uni
ted States navy, who was accidently
killed on the battleship Maine about
year ago. Mrs. Beecher was not a.
strong woman and the shock and grief
of the tragedy really fastened her own
death, for it so deeply affected her
that she never fully recovered.
completely FRUSTRATED and after her
sons funeral her brother prevailed
upon her to accompany him to his
home at Odin, Ill. There Mrs. Beech
er spent the winter and last spring
went to Atlanta, Ca, to visit sister
About two months ago she came north
by easy stages but upon reaching New
Ulm on June 4th her sons, III. L. and
James S. Beecher, noticed instantly
that she was in very feeble health. A
doctor was summoned on the day of
her arrival and she was afterward UNI
der the constant care of a physician.
Six weeks ago, when she was COM
PEELED to take to her room, trained
nurse was engaged and every means
known to the medical profession was
employed to ward off the impending
danger. Mrs. Beecher bore her trial
with the utmost fortitude and resigna-
ton but her constitution seemed I'M
equal to the task of stemming the adj
vancing tide and she grew gradually
weaker. Monday the sufferer relapsed
into a comatose state and at $40 yes
terday morning she passed away. Her
grief-stricken son and daughter, III. l..
Beecher and Mrs. G. T. Howard, min
istered to her every want during her
illness and were with her at the end.
Pauline e. Morrison was the daugh-
ter of DIR. and Mrs. Moses F. Morri-
son and was born at Bath, New Hamp-
shire, May 81, 1886. She received her
early education in the academy in her
native city, finishing her course at
Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio. The
early years of her life were spent in
the east but in 1856, after the death of
her parents, she went to Fort Dodge,
Ia, to live with a brother. There she
made the acquaintance of Hezekiah
Beecher, who had located in Fort
Dodge a year earlier for the practice
of law, and on Dec. Ii, 1858, they were
united in marriage. Her husband was
a graduate of Yale and for thirty -one
years was a successful practitioner at
Fort Dodge. Then, in 1886, he received
an appointment as clerk of the South
Dakota district court at the hands of
Gov. Church of that state, and re-
moved with his family to the city of
Redfeld. His death occurred there in
1887 but the family did not leave South
Dakota until 1892, when they removed
to Redwood Falls. Since that time
Mrs Beecher has made her home in
this city with II. L. Beecher, at Red
wood Falls with Mrs. Howard, and
when Lieut.. Beecher was enjoying.
shore duty she was won't to reside
with him in Philadelphia and Wash
ington.
Of the six children born to her five
attained manhood and womanhood
but only three survive. Eugenia j. is
the wife of County Attorney G. T..
Howard of Redwood Falls. Albert M.
Beecher was appointed to the Annapo-
lis naval academy in 1880 and after
his graduation rose to the rank of
lieutenant. In various ways he gained
prominence and distinction in the SER
vice but last fall, while acting as ord
nance officer of the battleship Maine,
he was cut down at the very zenith of
his career. Harriet W., wife of A. g..
Dickinson of Redwood Falls, died in
1898, and Henry Z. Beecher is station
agent for the Chicago & Northwestern
railway at this place. James S.Beech-
err, the youngest son, is a paymaster
in the United States navy. His ship,
the Denver, sailed only last week from
Galveston and on Monday arrived at
Guantanamo Bay. His first act upon
landing was to send an inquiry as to
the condition of his mothers health
but yesterday morning a cablegran