The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-12-15
WORTHY LADY
PASSES AWAY
Mrs. RebeCCa J. Richards Died
During Thursday Night.
EDtN'SPIONEfR CITIZEN
had been IN Better Health During Past
Month. - The End Game at Stuart
While Visiting Her Son.

Quietly during the night of Thursday,
December eth, all that was mortal of
Rebecca j. Richards, widow of the late
Thomas +. Richards, passed away at
the home Of her son, Harry W. Rich
ards, at Stuart. Soquiet and uneXpect-
ed was her demise that her death was
not known until members of the fam
lily went to her room Friday morning to
call her to break fast, and found that
her spirit had taken its flight sometime
during the night.
The body was brought from Stuart to
Eden on Mr.. Mcpherson's beautiful
launch, Saturday morning. and carried
into the Eden Congregational church by
her friends, where funeral services were
conducted by Rev. II II. Jones, and
one of the deceased favOrite hymns was
sung AS solo 10y Mrs. W. X. Hardee,
after which the remains were consigned
to the grave in the Eden cemetery. The
floral offerings We're lavish and most
beautiful, and large concourse of her
friends accompanied the remains to the
grave as last tribute Of respect to one
who had lived SO long as central figure
in the community.
Mrs. Richards was born in New York
city, March 1, 1888, and was the daugh-
ter of Noah Brown, who was one of the
wealthiest men and greatest shipbuild-
ers of his day, having built the naval
fleet commanded by Commodore Perry
at the battle of Lake Erie, as well as
the fleets of Captains Macdonough and
Chauncey, and many blockhouses dur
ing the war of 1872. Her ancestors
were of Puritan stock being Il decend-
ant on her fathers side Of Peter Brown,
who came to America ON the Mayhower,
while her mothers family came from
the shores Of Holland.
The deceased came to the Indian River
in the fall of 1881, following her husband,
Thomas +. Richards, two years after
his arrival, and has made her home
since at Eden, the spot where her nus
band first located and named, because
he found it such "A paradise as compared
with their late home in Connecticut.
For the past month or more Mrs
/ Richards has appeared to be IN better
health than usual and dispute her old
age, has made several rips to the neigh
boring towns with her daughter Mrs,
l. J. II. LeTourneau, having made Fort
Pierce visit about three weeks ago
besides going to Ankona, Sewals Point
and other places, and seemed delighted
to meet her friends when ever she went
out. After spending a month with hel
daughter at Eden, she went to Stuart
on November 18th, to visit her son anC
his family, where she seemed to be en-
loving good health even to the day OF
her death, 49,, ,,,
The deceased leaves three children
Harry w. Richards, of stuart Frank b.
Richards and Mrs. j, II, LeTourneau
of Eden, and twelve grandchildren Il
mourn her loss, to whom THE TRIBUNE
and the hosts of friends extend sympa
thy, in the hope that they, may be con
soied by the memory of deceased life
and the confidence OF her glorious I'm
mortality. ,u,,;,a =,
Her sun went down in the evening O.
life, but it sank to rise again amid th'
splendor of day bright fresh, eter
nal" May she rest in peace.