Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-05-05
Mrs. Lusanna w. Hubbard.

Mrs. Lusanna W. Hubbard. widow o.
Hon. John P. Hubbard, died In Hiram
April 14th, aged Is years, 10 days. She
was a granddaughter Of Gen. Pelee
Wadsworth of Revolutionary fame, and
a daughter of Gen. Peleg Wadsworth
Jr., and was cousin to the poet Long
fellow, and was a descendant OF twelve
of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth
Rock from the Mayfower. But her life
record rests safely on her own merits,
her refined and ideal Christian character
and her lifelong devotion to the Chris.
tan religion and its varied branches OF
humanity and benevolence, and her con.
secration to the duties OF home and
motherhood. In her life all the ele-
ments of Christian womanhood were
harmoniously combined and blended.
In an acquaintance of more than bali
century we have never seen her In Ill
temper, or known a word or act that we
would wish to forget. She possessed q
gifted and cultivated mind, rare scholar
ship, a taste and talent for vocal and in
strumental music, and in her youth she
was a successful teacher. Her amiable
disposition, easy and winning manners,
ready tact and infinite patience enabled
her to succeed in many important mat
tiers where other persons might have
failed. Her first husband, Mr.. James Z.
Osgood, of Fryeburg, also two children,
died many years ago. She survived her
last husband some thirty-two years.
She was lady Of deep and ferVent
spirituality. In her hours OF sorrow
and they were many-she leaned upon
her Savior with faith that faltered not,
and her calm, serene, brave and hopeful
spirit was alike benediction and an
inspiration to her many friends. She
was a member of the Congregational
church some sixty years, serving much
of the time as clerk, and many hearts in
near and distant states will be saddened
at the thought that they will greet her
gentle and familiar presence in the home
circle and the sanctuary nevermore.
One fact wildly illustrates her self
sacrificing devotion to a cause and a
principle that she loved. In her mature
wears, when relieved of arduous duties,
she heard and obeyed the call of the
Master, turned from her home of wealth
and refinement, travelled thousand
miles, and under the auspices OF a
national, patriotic society passed year
in loyal and faithful educational and
religious effort among the neglected
children of the South that had so recent
ly slain or starved her patriot kindred.
She leaves two brothers, Alden B. and
Cephas Wadsworth, residing in Massa-
chusetts, also four children, Mr.. Elmer
NJ. Hubbard of Washington, D. c., Mrs.
John B. Pike, with whom she resided,
Mr.. Philip W. Hubbard and Mrs. James
McLaren of Alhambra, California, also
three step-children, Hon. Charles E:
Hubbard and Lieut.. John w. Hubbard
of Washington, D. c., and Mrs. Peter b.
Young of Hiram. Her children and
reared in the old, an
cestral mansion, rich in the inspiring
of a century and the atmos-
phere of the pure, the true and the
beautiful, "rise up and call her blessed"
She fell at last at the post of duty.
Some weeks since she went to the
church to instruct her little class in
Sabbath School, she contracted pneu-
from which she recovered, but
her wonderful vitality and stamina were
exhausted, and after lingering decline
the sigh of suffering yielded to the vic
tors song.
Her funeral was attended on the 18th
by Rev. Asher Anderson, D. D., of Bos-
ton, former pastor. The hymn. Crock
of Ages, Cleft for Me-" was rendered in
an impressive manner by Mrs. Rose W.
Jameson and Miss Hatch of Cornish.
Her eldest daughter being en- route from
California the burial was postponed till
the Goth, when the broken family circle,
standing by the casket, repeated the
twenty-third Psalm. Mr.. Alex +. CoPp
offered a touching prayer, and at the
grave the daughters and granddaughter
sang her favorite hymn. "The Christians
Song of Hope" and left her with her
beloved and sainted ones in her we'll
earned rest.
HIRAM, Me, April "a.
LLEwELLYN A. WADswoRTH.