Putnam patriot., 1908-10-30
Obituary
a.J. CRAWFORD EDDY.

| BfDDkignf 4Ns Tf btSa at Hti hpihS p'i the morning of October II. Mrs. Eddy
 was born May 10, 1s4s, in the Monon. gahela Valley, near the Village Of Car
 michael, Greene County, Pennsyiva- mia. She was the fourth daughter of
 William Crawford and Elizabeth Ray. The Cra~for1s were early settlers of that region, and the great grand. 1 father and grandfather Of the deceased
 took an active part in Revolutionary times in holding in check the Indlaus
 and Tories.
 While living temporarily with her
 brothers family in Terfyyille, Conn,
 she became acquainted with William
 Penn Eddy, wounded soldier from
 Massachusetts, to whom she was mar
 ried April iz, lse8. The first fonf 1 years Of their married fife were spent in 5outhbridge, Mass, near the birth 1 place of her husband. In 1870 they
 moved to Brooklyn, \. r., where | thirty.eight years of ideslly happy | family life have been spent. Two l children were born To them-a son, John Lynn, and daughter, Elsis
 Ray. Directly upon their settling in ] Brooklyn they united with the Clas- son Avenue Presbyterian Church,
 where Mrs. Eddy entered the work ip the Wonan's Home and Foreign Mis- sionary Society. She was chosen president, which office she filled for some years. Her experience in this or ganization, as well as Tn the Ladies Aid Society Of the church, was of great value, as preparation for the larger field she entered upon as president of the
 itookIyn City Mission Society, in which capacity she served two periods of four years each. Both in her home life and Tn her public life the fact was manifest that her best mental iand physical energies were devoted to her duty as she saw 1t, her personality in abeyanee, herr work in the forefront. To those who knew her personally and who wrought with her Il need not be 
 drink to do the will of her Master.
 WILLIAM l.. Fars.
 For six and half years William l.. Fitts had been boss faruef at Arnold's Inn, south Woodstock. He died on Sunday after brief and sudden ill ness. He was the thifd son of Daniel E. Fits. of Ashford and Pomffet, and whose mother, Mrs. Benjamin Fits ef Ashford, was Elizabeth Lyon, sister of General Lyon.
 Daniel E. Fits was the eldest of K children. or the same strenuous fight ing blood as hts uncle, the hero of Will son < Creek, Daniel E. Fits enlisted in the Eighteenth Connecticut and served through the war.
 William Ellsworth Fills, his son, of tircless energy, had held the most res. ponsible positions on some ef the best and largest Of Pomfretis nnexcelled farms. Strong, alert, concentrating | mind and endeavor on the speedy and correct accomplishment Of his tasks he was the possessof of both judgment and taste. He was an example of the virile New England manhood, the most of which Is now drained toward the cities.
 MT Fits was named after Colonel Elnei E. Ellsworth of the Fire IouaNes. Mr Fits leaves Il widow and hts mother, Mrs. sophia Jane Baker, ot
 pomfrel, who was first married 10 Da. ! nie R. Fits. He also leaves four broth- ers--stalwart sons of an energetic fa- ther-and surviving mother, and two sisters, as follows: Deputy Sherii John IT, Fitts, ef Hampton; Miss Mary l.. Fits, of PomfIct; George F.. Fits, of Hampton, Mrs. Sarah A. Btyden, wife of Walter Bryden, of Pomfret; Albert
 Newton fitts and Charles Oscar Fitts, 1 of Pomfret
 The funeral was held on Tuesday, the Rev. George F. Waters, of the First /, Congregational Church of Woodstock, | offering prayer al Atnold's Inn. The body was then borne to the Con- gregational church at Abingdon, where
 the Rev. II. G Marshall, pastor of the
 Congregational church of Hampton,
 conducted set,i ,es, which included an address, and a trio, consisting of Mrs | x. A. Badger, Mrs, C. n. Sharpe-who l was also organist-and (. NJ. Arnold,
 sang appropriate hymns.
 The church was profusely decorated | with greens and flowers.
 | The burial-the Rev. Mr. Marshall | repeating brief committai service
 was in the Abingdon cemetery The four brothers of Mir. fitts, whose
 death k the first break tn the group of | seven children. acted as bearers. MT. Fitts was born in fomfre! and
 was 3a years old.
 | CARD of THANKS - We desire 10 thank most sincerely all the kind friends and neighbors in Woodstock,
 Pomfret, and Hampton, who so gene rously and faithfully assisted Us in the | time of our bereavement and loss. | Mrs. William F.. fius, | Mir. and Mrs. l.. k. Southworth. |
 | Rsv. ASA kANniErr.
 ss, one the oldest Baptist clergymen in New England, died al his home in North Ashford, on "Wednesday of
 last week. where he was pastor for
 more than twenty years. Death was
 due to complications incident 10 his