The Republican journal., 1906-05-03
m MfMORIAM.

Sherman deeply appreciate the beantl-
full and tender tribute to her memory
which appeared in The Journal of April
10.
We feel sure that it was written by
one who knew and loved her. No one
who knew her could fail to be impress
ed by her sincere and unaffected good
ness, but it remains for those who are
closely connected by ties of blood to
know and realize to its fullest depth
the beauty of her nature, and the
boundless charity and sympathy of her
character.
Nearly the eldest of a very large
family of children, the tender and
maternal side was innate, and early
fostered and developed. From her
earliest childhood she was veritable
'little mother" and as long as she lived
she never lost this love for children,
although the babies she loved in her
later years were the grandchildren of
her early associates.
Mrs. Sherman was the great-grand-
daughter on her mothers side of John
Brown ST., who was one of the early
proprietors of the township of Belfast.
John Brown, ST., held a commission III
the service Of the King during the
colonial wars, and during the Revolu-
tionary war was chairman of the COM
mittee of inspection and safety. Her
grandfather was John Brown, Jr., who
also was member of that committee.
She was named for her maternal grand
mother Sarah Crosby, who was a Sis
ter of Gen. John Crosby of the war of
1872
Mrs. Sherman was a descendant in
eighth generation from Judge Samuel
Sewall of witchcraft fame, and was re-
lated laterally to Rev. Stephen Sewall
the noted teacher of Hebrew at Har-
ward College, and to Rev. lothian
Sewall, the noted evangelist of early
times. On her fathers side she came
from sturdy seafaring stock, and de-
scended, it is said, from one Lemuel
Clark who was mate of the MaytioWer.
Sarah Crosby Clark was married to
Isaac Holbrook Sherman May 10, 1881, in
Winterport. Mr.. Sherman was also of
old colonial stock. The Holbrooks and
Shermans originally came from Rhode
Island.
They resided at Bald Hill Cove in
Winterport for a few years, but had
lived in Belfast for about 40 years, Mr..
Sherman icing for some years connect
ed with the Russell paper mills and
afterwards established the leather
board mills of Sherman & Company, |
now conducted by his nephew.
During all the two score years of hex
Belfast life Mrs. Sherman lived in the
pleasant cottage on the East Side
where she peacefully fell asleep on
Easter morn.
There, during long and beautiful
life she dispensed a gracious hospitality,
not only to kindred and friends, but the
stranger, the poor, and the needy were
welcomed to her freside and table Par
ticularly was this the case in regard to
ministers and their families, and many
a faithful Christian minister with the
proverbial large family has been cheer
ed and encouraged by loving thought
and wise hospitality.
Quiet and transformations as was her
life, it was filled to the day of her de-
cline in health with good deeds. When
the infirmities of years prevented a
more active charity, in the quiet of her
own home she wrought with her needle,
making garments for those less fortu-
nate than herself. Many child's heart
was gladGened by dainty garments
fashioned by this stately Christian
in the solitude of her Preside
While essentially Christian and
Methodist, believing implicitly in Jesus
Christ as her Lord and Savior, Mrs.
sherman was not in any sense hide
pound Christian. On the contrary she
was liberal in all her views, and always
mad great respect for the religious views
Of others, even if they were liberal in
the extreme. In the boundless good
ness of her heart, she could live and let
live.
Childless in one sense Mrs. Sherman
was mother to many. No less than
five orphan children have been taken
into her home and heart and reared
and educated When Mr.. Sherman's
brother and his wife died, leaving two
young children, they we're taken to her
heart and home and grew 20 manhood
and womanhood.
Her devoted adopted daughter, Miss
Flora A. sherman, was the daughter of
4 clergyman and his wife who were in
innate friends, and she was taken from
her dying mothers arms when babe
and given to Mrs. Sherman.
To her own brothers and sisters who
we're younger, she has ever been
faithful friend and counsellor, filling in
part the place of the mother, who long
ago laid down to sleep using her bur
lens for pillow.
Only as time goes on can those who