The Newtown bee., 1908-03-13
The 'Newtown Bee
 Newtown, Friday, March n, 1908.
LITCHFIELD COUNTY.
New Preston.
DEATH OF MRS SARAH J. BROWN.


 Brown proved fatal on Wednesday,
 March 4, and the face, and form
 we have always known have become
 cold in death, Mrs Brown lived to the
 advanced age of ss years and seven
 months. Born in Washington July 29,
 1919, the eldest surviving daughter of
 the late MT and Mrs Joel Bishop, she
 grew there to womanhood and married
 Isaac Brown, who came to this village
 soon after and engaged in milling till
 his death, a period of about 30 years.
 Mrs Brown had lived in the house
 where she died 49 years and II months.
 During long life Mrs Brown had been 1 most favorably known to this entire
 community, many having now gone on
 before, but old and young, rich and
 poor, must remember while life lasts
 her cheery face, warm welcome to her
 home whenever any made it conyen-
 tent to call and her general knowledge
 and information was such that she
 talked and conversed most sensibly and
 interestingly to all ages to the week of her death. The retention of her mlnd and memory was truly wonderful | She grew deaf as age advanced but her eyes enabled her toread to the date of her last illness and her interest in the daily paper and the current events of the time was as keen as 30 years ago and also her power and interest in talking of the same. Scores of her re- marks must be remembered by those who were with her most frequently, and very seldom, even in age, after hearing or reading of any event near home or farther away, did she form or express views wide of the truth of the same. Her face and voice have thus been most welcome in many homes here, so long as she felt able to visit, and, laterly as age and inclemencies of the season has shut her in more dose ly several months of each year it has been pleasure to visit her and note in conversation how clear her mind and thought still ran and listen to what she had read and hear told with her of the same. Her power of endurance was also remarkable. Los ing her husband nearly 40 years ago she continued to keep the home, attend and work for her two sons, Frank and Henry, till each was married and till her daughter, Mrs A. E. Corning, F came to reside permanently again with her. Whenever Mrs Corning felt obliged to b%away from her for a week $ or month or longer, Mrs Brown has kept the house alone till within few, I and very few, years of her decease. $ Her desire also to visit friends as far away as New Haven and New York ( City has been so strong till within five : years of her death that she made annu- al and bi-annual trips to them and re- mained in the above mentioned cities i;
 
 several weeks in succession on these l, trips. Her resignation in afliction was also most commendable. No one heard her bitterly rebel at fate during her long widowhood and when her young !, est son, Henry. died in January, 1907, r she bore up under the blow that came 50 suddenly most remarkably we'll and patiently. Her disposition seemed to be of that sunny kind, amidst labor, l trial and sorrowSas we'll as when the 5 sun of comfort and prosperity shone : more brightly. It cannot be realized ' IS yet that she has gone from us. A visit to her late home, the vacant chair, a and the silence of that voice heard a shere so long, will be the surest way to convince that she is gone from earth. s Her funeral was attended at the church Ii aere, last Friday afternoon. Rev J. E. Ii Herman and E. Evans officiated as pas- tors and her remains were then con yeyed to the cemetery in Washington and laid beside those of her late hus- band and oldest daughter, who have been there in the family plot many a years before her. At the grave the V service was beautifully read h y Rev T. Peck, rector of the Episcopal ,hurch in Washington. Mrs Brown vas for many years communicant at z st Andrews church at Marbledale and \ attended there whenever possible. So :, passes another faithful wife and moth- n r, neighbor and friend. Almost all Ter generation has preceded, but cores. of younger can bless the day and '. lines when they have seen and con- II 'ersed with her and remember the right and witty sentences, "apples of V .old in pictures of silver" seemingly, is which have come so naturally from her W ongue. all of them of most cheerful ature, encouraging and to be remem- s 'ered. Her life may have been what s called at present, simple life, but h nur rnr,rb uood and hriobt,,,, ax.l