The Newtown bee., 1908-12-25
The Newtown Bee.
 Newtown, Friday, peeenbarssl lpas
Roxbury.
MARY CATHERINE ADDS.

Woodbury, where she had gone to spend the winter. Although for some months she had not been in her usual
 health, it was not until short time
 before her death it was discovered that
 she was suffering from an internal can
 cer, for which there was no possible
 remedy. On the evening Def ,rt
 Thanksgiving day she laid by her sew
 in g and the following day was per
 suaded to remain Tn bed, hoping there
 by to gain strength. From that time
 until her death, which occurred De
 cember II, she failed very rapidly
 Her cheerfulness and resignation wher
 learning how near the end was for her
 was most remarkable; without mur
 mur or word of complaint her mind
 seemed to pass entirely away from the cares and distresses of this world and to be occupied only with the friends and loved ones whom she was leaving and those with whom she was soon to be reunited. Considering her age, per haps no one in the village of Roxbury could be more sincerely missed. She was a woman of unusual ability and activity. It could never be said of her that she was "aged and infrm." In speaking of her handicraft, an es- teemed friend remarked, "There was nothing she could not do." Innate conception and artistic skill appeared in whatever she undertook to do, though it might be the finest piece of needlework or embroidery, or the mending of a pair of shoes. To have her efforts applied where they were to give delight, to make matters right and to do the most good, was her am- bition rather than the seeking of rec ompense. Only short time previous to her demise, it happened that neighbor upon whom the duty devolved of laundering the robe of her priest, found in the beautiful lace place bad ly torn. She brought the robe to Mrs Addis as to the only one who could re- place each delicate mesh and thread and restore it's beau ty; and this with the finest of needle and thread her friend did for her. She was always busy; and the great amount of work she has done and the very many gar mants she has fashioned and made for members of her family and others. ev- sr displayed the correctness of an ar tistic sense which the mary years of Ter useful life never duIled.
 Again fl is observed that with so many who depart from us after the allotted age of man is completed, the lays of their childhood and youth are i and only theIr later years borne in mind. Not so with our dear friend. In girlhood her mother called her Mary Catherine, but to other friends and companions she always was Mary Kate, and was greatly be- loved because of her beauty of person. her dark hazel eyes and dark curling hair, but more still for her sprightly good nature and lovable disposition. She was nicely educated, agreeing with the spirit of the times and taught school in the days when the teacher boarded round. ]" She first taught in Carmel, Putnam Co.,. N. V, when but IA years old; from that time she al- attended school and taught lntil she was 2l. She was pupil of | he Rev George Foot at the time when 1e conducted a successful private school in Roxbury, and while in the ,ity of Brooklyn with a brother of her enjoyed the advantage of private tutor of language and music. A few pictures, generally in water ,olors, evince her ability as an artist. At the age of "A she married Seth Hub Dell Addis of New Milford, who died in Middletoun N. r., at the age of 49. l Her married life was full of trouble and sorrow. Her mother and brother lied shortly after her marriage, leav- ing her the only survivor of her fdth- er's family. While living in the city of Newark, N. J., Charles Ariail, a Il bright little boy of 10 years. died of scarlet fever. Other members of the family contracted ague, which under mined their health and eventually caused their death. Her eldest son, Samuel West Adds, civil engineer and draftsman of much ability, died in Middletown, N. Y. in 1881, and Henry Prindle Addis, a clerk in the Orange County Clerk office at Goshen, N. r., died in 1886. In all her sad losses and sorrows a brave spirit and true Christian character sustained her. She was from childhood member of the Episcopal church and ever devout and sincere Christian.
 Mrs Addis was born in Bethlehem,