, 1907-05-25
END CAME
PEACEFULLY
AUGUSTA sARRoWs GATES GATH
Erred TO HER FATHERS IN
STIFFNESS OF NIGHT.
Had Been About Her Household Du-
ties During the Day, and When
Night Came She Lay Down to
Rest, Being III, and Closed Her
Eyes in the Drifting to Eternity.

Peacefully, without a struggle, and
conscious almost to the last moment,
Mrs. Augusta j.. Barrows Gates died
last night, at about 8 o'clock, of heart
failure, Mr.. Gates and their niece, Miss
Margaret Merithew, and Mrs. DIR. R. j..
Gardiner being present. The end was
like a babe falling into healthful slum-
Der, with the closing of the eyes, the
stopping Of the pulse and the gliding
from life into eternity. Mrs. Gates
died as she had lived for nearly the
allotted three score and ten years
without worry or trouble to those she
loved. except the trouble that comes
with the parting of those vino had
been all in all to each other.
Her Household Cares.
Mrs. Gates had not been well for
several days, but yesterday she was
about her household duties during the
forenoon, at breakfast time feeling
pretty comfortable. She set the din
ner for the family at noon and then
lay down to rest. AT supper she went
to the rear part of the house and at
about 1880 returned to the couch she
had occupied during the afternoon.
Here she died, having been there a lit
tie more than an hour. Her friends
watched the feeting moment when she
went to join the innumerable hosts
before the Great White Throne.
Native of Maine.
Mrs. Gates was born in Maine Feb
ruary II, 1910, being a little past 81
years of age. She vas born of a Con
gregational family in the Pine Tree
state, but when she came to Laramie
in 1882, and married Mr.. Gates about
a year later, she united with the Pres
byterian church here, and from that
day to her last she had been a faithful
worker in its cause, having the care
of her family and her duty to the
church ever before her as a beacon
light to her own and her neighbors'
feet.
Mother to MotherIess Children.
She had no relatives in this city ex-
cept her husband and his family and
her niece, Miss Merithew, who has
been here from her home at Salem,
Mass, for the past two years. Mr..
Gates had been twice married. his
first wife also dying in this city, leav-
ing three children. Mrs. Jennie Phil
lips of Douglas, Albert Gates Of Den
yer and Mrs. Mary Gates Garlock Of
Cheyenne. All have been informed OF
the death of their foster-mother, n
will be here to attend the funeral,
Mrs. Garlock arriving this afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gates had no children.
Mrs. Phillips and Mr.. Gates have tele-
graphed that they will come, n are
looked for in time for the funeral,
which will probably be held on Tues
day, although definite arrangements
had not been completed today. Rev.
Hogbin will have charge of the SER
vices.
Always Faithful Worker.
Mrs. Gates was for years the secre-
tary of the Missionary society of the
Presbyterian church, declining re-elec-
ton at the last annual meeting, when
she declared she no longer had the
strength to fulfill the duties of the po-
sition. Mrs. Stephen Boyd was chosen
as her successor. Mrs. Gates was a
member of the board of trustees of the
Presbyterian church at the time Of her
death, and often remarked that she
had seldom missed a service in the
church. For the past two Sabbaths
her health failed her and she was
kept away, her absence being marked
by every member of the congregation.
She was faithful to the end. sending