Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-12-30

Mrs. Mary Wiley was called to Lynoon-
vile last week by the death OF her brother
Carl Clark.
NJ. and Mrs. p. B. Brewster spsnt
Christmas with mis- parents in Barton
Lar ding.
Christmas with his parents, Mr.. aud MIR.
II. II. Somere.
Miss Grace Sylvester of Barton Landing
was tue guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Locke last week.
Mrs. Nancy Clark and Mr.. and Mrs.
Hale Clark of BrowniDgton spent Christ
mas with Mr.. and Mrs. Mansel Clark.
A crowded house listened to the Christ
curt House ha Tuesday and We IL .dsy
evenings. rne trees were loaded and ali
eDjcyed good time.
Mrs. Maria Hong hton, whose illness has
been mentioned in the MONITOR, died at
the home of her nephew, A. E. Harlow,
Tuesday afternoon at O'Clock, aged Sc
years. The funeral services were held at
the Cong'l church Thursday afternoon,
Rev. j. Poeton officiating. A more ex
tended notice later.
Mrs. Hannah Guild Hannant died Sun
day, the I'D of December Mrs. Rannant
was stricken with paralysis Friday morn
ing and could not speak after the first,
but seemed to realize until in the after
| noon. Mrs. uannant was the only child
of John and Alths da Fifield Guild, and
was born in Coventry September 6, 1888
When she was three years old her parents
| moved to Irasburgh on to a part of the
| present farm, and there and in the home
from which she has just gone her long life
has been spent. She was married to Fran
| els g. Hannant February 16, 1857, and two
children, Ida Altheda, and Charles Her
| b ert, came to bless their home. Mrs. Han
nant was home lover and home maker
in the best sense of the word. She loved
her family with great devotion ,and wher
her son married Miss Fannie San born o.
Lowell she was ready to welcome her to {
| warm place in her heart. She was very
| social in her nature and when falline
|
the last years OF her life nothing gave he
80 much pleasure as to gather large mum
bers of her friends and kindred at he
home for social enjoyment, which she dit
repeatedly. Last February she had he
golden wedding when over leo guests b.
their preseL CO and gifts testified to the es
TEEN they had for her. She was looking
forward with great interest to the comm,
INNER when she hoped to help celebrat
her grandfather's first break in the Gov
entry wilderness 100 years ago. But tt
swift, silent reaper called and she mus
obey, and the precious wife, the lovin
tender mother, the kind neighbor an
friend passed to the world God has for hi
own. Her last meeting of friends wa
from her old home Deem Der "a Her gres
love for flowers was remem oered to tn
last and she slept her last sleep in a bed c
dren. There was beautiful pillow wit
the words, ''At Rest" from the family, 8
exquisite wreath from Masonic friends 8
, Irasburgb, sprays of flowers from Mr.
Amos Gould, Miss Maddie Sanborn, Mr.
H. Goss and others.
What though in sorrow must her name
spoken,
lis ours to keep the friendship links VI
broken.
She is not dead for whom we softly call;
3 She is not lost, for whom our stroug tea
fall
She is with God-and God is over all.
( We desire to return our sincere thanI
and heartfelt gratitude to our relatives al
neighbors for their kind assistance an
s help in the sickness and death of our p
|, loved wife and mother.
FRANCIS g. HANNANT,
s IDA A. HANNANT,
r CHARLES I'll. HANNANT,
FANNIE r. HANNANT.