Putnam patriot., 1909-01-15
Obituary.
HI.IlA FrIGAnErn INnAI.Is

The many lrtenu> oi Mts> r4ita Elizabeth Ingalls, were deeply grieved last week 10 hear that her illness had terminated fatally.
 Miss Ingalls, was born in Abingdon, February 10th, lSa4 in the house which Is now the residence .of pr. Y. C. Goodhridgc. She attended the school at the Corners until the Spring of ls7l, when she attended Woodstock Acad- emy. Later she went to the High school at Danielson,where she prepared for college. She taught at Pomfet Centre and in other schools efthe town.
 In isso she was graduated from Mt. Holyoke and for while did settle. ment work in New York. After few months she went te teach in Scranton, Pa, where she stayed eight or nine years.
 In the meantime sister of hers had married and gone to live in Jamaica Plain, Mass. An opening as city filled by Miss Ingalls, until the winter of 1899, i9o0. A further tribute to her work is hardly needed when one re- members that through all these years she was the messenger of help to the poor for six churches of different de- nominations. But her faithfulness to her work was shown here as in all she did. No day was two bleak or stormy to keep her in her sisters charming house, hers likewise, if poor family needed help or comfort. Her great tact and sympathy fitted her for the work in a marked degree. She made friends of the poor. Her calling was not a business 1t was an art.
 In the spring of 1900 overwork brought on an attack of nervous pros- tration from which she suffered for many months and indeed never fully recovered.
 After her sisters death in 1904, sine left Jamaica Plain to make her home with her other sister in Danielson. Though prevented by Ill health from active life, Miss Ingalls yet shared in the work of the church as far as she was able and made many friends, as she did wherever she went. There was never q child of her acquaintance who was not the happier for knowing her, and each friend was sure of finding in her the gentle virtues of sympathy, thoaghtfalness and kindness in speak of other. Though for the past half year her health had been failing as n result of her former trouble, yet 1t Mas not rega rded with alarm until few weeks ago. The end came on the morning of January fitth- large number gathered al the Abingdon church Friday morning te attend the i funeral service and the interment in the Abingdon cemetary.
 MT. Barbour, the Congregational | minister at Danielson spoke in Il very | feeling and sympathetic way of her beautiful character and her love for | children.
 A sister, Miss Persis Ingalls, of Dan- ielson and brother, Mir. William tn- gals of Brooklyn, Conn, are the only surviving members of her family, but many relatives and friends share with them the feeling of deep loss and ex- tend to them the sincerest sympathy in their bereavement.
 MRS. MARY ]. CHASE.
 Mary Jane True was born al Lisbon, Maine, April l9, isl9, her parents sub sequently removing to Bradford, where in October, 1s45, she married Reuben | Field of Brewer. They resided for time in Brewer, afterward removing to Bradford Her husband died April 10th, is60, leaving her widow with | seven children to rear and support. Two of the girls lied when quite young, the remaining five children reaching mature years. Her daughters | died of consumption, one after the oth- CT, beginning with the oldest. In | March, 1889, she moved to Watervilie, i where she made home for college stu | dents, many of whom will mourn her | loss as for mother, She leIt W ale1- vile in 1881, going to different places, hoping to prolong the life of her young | est daughter. After the death of this daughter, she married in 1885, John l NJ. Chase of Orono, who died in 1891. After his death she came to Putnam, where she has since resided with her son, Samuel Field, passing away Jan. lith, in her 90th year. She was a member of the Congregational church. The funeral was held on Wednesday afternoon at her late residence, Rev. J. R. Stubbert officiating. Miss Gladys Murfey sang, Miss Bertha Sargent ac- companying. The body was taken to Maine for burial.