The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-04-11
OBITUARY.

day morning, March 30th. was born in
| Digby, Nova Scotia July Z, 1915. She was
the daughter of Joseph and Rachel Young,
and the youngest of ten children. In 1887
she was united in marriage to J. Y. Nc
Clintock of this city whose name is still
| held in remembrance by the citizen of Bel
fast as one whose energy, perseverance and
| business ability acquired for him more
than local notice, and whose means were
boldly invested in lots in the central part of
| the city, erecting thereon buildings, the
| most prominent of that time. He died in
| 1883, leaving widow and only child tAddie)
upon whom fell the care of her father s
| estate, and who managed it with marked
| ability until the time of her death, which
occurred Nov. %, 1891, having the assist
ance of Mr. n. F. Houston of this city who
| has not only been faithful business agent,
| but an unfailing friend of both mother and
daughter For some years previous to her
daughters death Mrs. McClntock had been
in delicate health and since that time has
| been gradually failing. Her close contine-
| ment to her home, amid the association that
constantly reminded her of her great
| bereavement, made her grief seem douby
| hard to bear. Her dearest hope and JOY
! centered in the anticipation of 10. far dis
| tant meeting with her loved ones. Late in
| life it was my privilege to make the ac-
I quaintance of and to number among my
| friends, this noble and cultured woman ;
and among my choicest treasures are spicy,
interesting letters written by her when
past eighty years of age, and whose pen
| manship any of our finest modern scholars
might justly be proud to equal. All VINO
have been intimately acquainted with her
will acknowledge that hers was a mind OF
no common type. She was great reasoner,
deep thinker and pleasing in her conversa-
tion, which was far above the petty gossip
and those trivilalitieS that areof interest to
lower, narrower minds. Her religious views
we're those of Unitarianism for she believed
that its truths embody the highest hopes OF
humanity. Although for many years She
was deprived Of attending church services,
her interest never waned, and it was her
custom each Sunday to gather from those
whose privilege it was to hear, such por-
tions of the sermon as they could report
Her mind dwelt much on spiritual, eternal
things. .as her books gave ample testimony !;
yet during the last years of her life her
failing sight permitted her to read but little.
Her choice of friends and companions en-
braced all ages, for her heart and mind
could never grow old. The schoolgirl ever
found in her an interested listener to all her
plans and pursuits. In her luxurious,
hoSpitable home she spared no pains or eX-
| pensa to entertain her guests. Seeking not
| for notoriety, her many deeds OF love and
charity were generously but quietly bestow-
| ed, thus she leaves a vacancy i'll the lives Of
many For many years while health and
strength permitted, during the season Of
flowers she never neglected to keep the
! graves of her dead fresh ami fragrant,-
even with her own exhausted strength ar
ranging her flowers in beautiful forms for
other hands to place there. Is there not
something intensely sad in the thought that
she is the last of her family, and her
| kindred too far distant to often visit her
last resting place? Yet, she leaves in this
! city many warm, true-hearted friends who,
while with faithful, tender hands they
bear to her silent home of rest those sweet
but perishing tokens of loving remember
ance, will in their hearts enshrine memory S
fairer, richer garlands that time and frost
cannot wither. We cannot suppress the
tears that death and parting must bring
yet what joy and comfort in the thought of
a home of rest where there is no more pain,
and where weeping and parting cannot
come, and "There shall be no night there -
| Com.
Passed peacefully from this life March
| 18th Susan j., wife of 0. P. Estes. Mrs.
Estes was born in Troy, Me-, in 1912, the
daughter of Sarah and Stephen Barker. She
was married in Troy in 1868 and spent her
married life in her native town, living on
the old home farm at the Centre nearly Sc
years. There were born to her two chill
dfen who survive her, a son, A. L. Estes of
West Troy, and daughter, Mrs. E. E. Nc
| Causln of Unity. Two sisters, Mrs. T. p.
| Tyler of Troy and Mrs. j. M. Chalmers of
Pittsfeld, and two brothers, Enoch and
William Barker of Troy also survive her to
mourn with the sorrowing husband and
children their great loss. For the last few
years Mrs. Estes health had been poor but
having unusual vitality she kept about.
During the last few weeks of her sickness,
which was occasioned by jaundice and a
complication of diseases, she retained her
hopeful spirit which was ever her charac-
teristic. Her pathway to the tomb was
smoothed by the tender ministries of her
daughter, Mrs. E. E. McCauslin, with whom
she spent the last few weeks of her life,
and who, with a trained nurse and good
medical assistance, did all that human
hands could do for her comfort. Mrs Estes
was quiet and unobtrusive in her manners
but was very rm-hearted woman. She
was faithful to her home which was always
scrupulously clean and neat, with the
thrifty way which is the heritage of New
England housekeepers. She found her
happiness in that of her family and friends.
She was faithful wife, devoted mother
and true friend. That she was loved and
appreciated by her friends and neighbors
was evidenced by their presence and their
many and beautiful floral offerings at the
funeral, which was held at the home of her
daughter in Unity, March 10th, Rev.
Edward Foster of Clinton officiating. The
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