Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-12-28
MARY wHNrwoRrn cAMpBHLL

Death has removed from lis the
last of the surviving children of Nor
man Williams: one who throughout
life exemplifed the best of the traits
which made this family loved and
respected by their townspeople.
Vermontors owe much to the ster-
ling traits Of an ancestry trained to
recognition of the value of an ed
ucatiop, and which bent every ener-
gy to securing the same for it's off
spring. From the very beginning
of state life this town was noted for
the mental training Of its leaders, so
that it took leading place in state
government from the quality of its
citizens as we'll as the number of its
population.
Mary Wentworth, the second child
of Norman and Mary Ann Went
worth Brown Williams, was born
in Woodstock, Vermont, May 10th,
1922, at the homestead which stood
on the site of the memorial library,
Her education was acquired in the
schools of the town and in Montreal,
Canada. Her mother, a grandniece
Of Benning Wentworth who incorpo-
rated the town, had been trained in
the traditions of the best colonial
families in New Brunswick and in
Boston, so that she was at home in
and conversant with the graces and
culture Of society, and her home in
Woodstock has been characterized
by writer on this town as the center
Of its social and intellectual life.
AS the eldest daughter in such
home Mrs. Campbell was well fitted
to take her place in society and
maintain its best traditions, and her
many friends will agree that we'll
did she perform her task. Her gra-
cious presence, the fund of inform
alton ON topics of interest, the ready
wit, the interest in the welfare of
of others, and the kindliness of
heart which planned and carried out
schemes for the benefit of others, en-
deared her to all who knew her; so
that her death has caused sorrow
from the sense of personal loss, and
regret in the removal of one who so
highly exempli6ed the graces and
culture of the old school"
On the Doth of December, 1851,
she married William Merritt Camp
BELL of ST. Adams, w., then engaged
in mercantile pursuits in Charleston,
S. c., and went south to reside at
Mt. Pleasant, residential suburb of
that city, where they remained until
the beginning of the civil war. AL
though sympathizing with the north
they decided to remain south, as
their property and interests were
there, and when the exigencies of
war compelled a removal from their
residence they went to Sumterville,
S. c., where Mr., Campbell died on
tho IIth of October, 1862, and whore
Mrs. Campbell and her family Of
five children remained until the end |
of the war, when she returned |
to Woodstock to take charge of |
the homestead and attend the
last years of her father, then help
less from paralysis After the
marriage of her daughter she went
with her to reside in Peoria,
and afterwards in Evanston, both in
where she remained until
1902, when she again returned to
to reside with her eldest
son, William Norman
Campbell, till her death, which took
place on Friday, December 20, 1907.
In laying her to rest under the
shadow Of Mt. Tom, in the burial
plot of the family, we placed in the
dust of the town, founded by Gov
ernor Wentworth, the fourth in direct |
line from his niece, Mary Wentworth,
who, with her daughter and grand
daughter, sleeps in confident hope of
the resurrection.