The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-06-08
OBITUARY.

Daniel W. Billings died May %, 1905, at
his home in Swanville, aged 81 years and
month. He was born in Monroe. the son of
Peter and Mary (Ellingwood) Billings. At
the age of IS he enlisted in Company X, 265h
Maine Regiment, and when mustered out
with the regiment he enlisted in the navy,
where he served about year. He mar
ried March %, 1871, Miss Ada |. Greeley
of Swanville, who survives him with two
daughters, Miss Margaret f. Billings and
Mrs. H. L. Averill, both of Swanvile. The
brothers and sisters living are Mr.. }. P.
Billings of Biddeford, Me-, Mrs. Mary Park
of Boston, Mass, Mrs. Ida Stevens Of Swan
Vile, Me, Mr.. Ralph Z. Nickerson of Haver-
hill. Mass, and MIR. 4. E. Nickerson of
Waldo, Me. AS previously mentioned, Mr.
Billings was an active member and TOR
many years the secretary of the Goth Maine
Regiment Association, and it will be diff
cult to fill his place. His reports were pub
lished in full each year in The journal and
then pasted into book, thus givinga print
ed record of the proceedings of the annual
meetings. He was a member of Thomas H.
Marshall Post, q. A. X. of this city, which
sent delegation to his funeral and furnish
ed the bearers and was also member of
the Grange Mr. Billings followed the occu-
patton of farmer with the intelligence and
industry that assures success. He was a
kind husband and father, and a good citizen
in the fullest meaning of the term. lie will
be missed and mourned by large number
of friends whose heartfelt sympathy is ex-
tended to the bereaved family.
Died in Jackson May 9th, Rachel,
widow of the late Abram Eastman, aged 66
years. Mrs. Eastman had shock 6 years
ago and others followed until she had six,
the last causing her death. The deceased
had resided in Jackson for many years and
had the love Of a large circle of friends and
the respect of all. She was efficient i'll her
domestic duties, a wise, atfectlonate mother,
faithful wife, IA kind neighbor and friend,
and took a deep interest in matters of good
to the community. She was for many
years a member of Star of Progress Grange
and helpful member of che East jackson
Sewing Circle, in which places, as we'll as
in many others, she will be greatly missed
Two brothers, William and Eben Pushaw;
two sisters, Mrs. Martha Hersey and Mrs
Elizabeth Hopkins two sons, Charles East
man of Old Town and VIM. Eastman of
Lowell, Mass, survive her. The funeral
was held at her late residence in Jackson,
May 9th, Rev. F. S. Dolliff, officiating.
Died in Worcester, Mass, June 5, at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Archibald
McDermid, Mrs. Mehitable Wentworth,
widow of John Wentworth of Waldo, aged
50 years. Services and interment in Waldo,
Thursday, June s. Relatives and friends
invited.
Last Saturday morning, while at work at
the Briston schoolhOuSe, William POttle
was attacked with heart failure and eX-
pired in very few minutes. The body
was brought to wisdom at once, and the
burial held Monday afternoon A large
concourse of friends of the deceased at
tended the remains to the grave, where W.
W. Francis in short, but appropriate ser
vice consigned the body of our old friend to
his last resting place. William Potte was
native of Maine ana aged about 56 years.
He was an old timer in the west, having
been proSpector for many years and iden-
tilted with many of the mining camps of
Idaho and Montana. He has resided in the
basin for the past seven years. OF him we
can say that he never knowingly injured
anyone, and we believe he did not have an
enemy in the world. May he rest in peace.
Big Hole Breezes, Wisdom, Montana,
May Goth.
Mrs NJ Frances Gilmore, widow of Ed
ward Y Gilmore, sixty-nine years old, died
Tuesday night, May Both. at the home of
her daughter, Mrs Ada }. Kinney, q Win
ter street. Mrs. Gilmore had been ill with
cancer for long time. She was born in
Searsport, Me-, March II, 1886, and had
livedin West Somerville about six years.
SOmerville, Mass, Journal.
That Beautiful Gloss
comes from the varnish in DevOe's Varnish
Floor Paint; costs cents more quart
though. Sold by Mason & Hall.