The Republican journal., 1909-12-09
OBITUARY..

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She had been ill for about month .,a
irlehos looked for her complete recovery, so
favorable had been her condition. Other com.
piicatlons, however, exhausted her strength
and after suffering intensely for over week
she entered into the rest and peace of tho ,;fo
beyond. Before her marriage Mrs W;go;n
was MISS Mary Plaisted Hersey, daughter of
1homas Hersey, retired merchant and Sarah
T.. flalsted OF Bangor Born in Bangor Octo-'
ber II, 1870, her education was received in tho
public schools of that city, and later she studied
music in Germany. In 1895 she was married
to Mr.. Frank R. Wiggin, cashier of the Waldo
Trust Co., and came to Belfast to make ber
home. Two sons came to the home. Rudolnb
Hersey and Ralph c., who with their father
survive her. Two brothers, Thomas Fl. Hersev
ana 1uy A. Hersey, also survive, and reside in
Bangor unassuming and of kindly disposition
Mrs. Wlggin made many firm friends, and
found for herself large place in the life of
the community. The grace and charm with
which she presided over her own home were
manifested in all her other activities. She
moved much in the social circles of the COM
munity and was a delightful hostess at her
home and at the summer cottage on the East
Side She was regular attendant at the SER
vices OF the Unitarian church and a charter
member of Primrose Chapter, No 152, Order
OF the Eastern Star, where she will be most
sadly missed of its officers True and
loyal and kindly in all the relations of her life
she needs no eulogy from the pen of any ndi-
vidual. Those who knew her appreciated her
splendid qualities and recall them the more
now that she is with them no longer The
funeral services were held at her late home
Monday afternoon at three O'Clock The pro-
fusion OF beautiful flowers and the many peo-
pie who gathered for the farewell tribute wit
messed the respect in which she was held and
the wide sympathy for those who remain The
services were conducted by the Rev. Adoph
Rossbach, pastor of the Unitarian church as
sisted by the Rev. David L. Wilson of the Con-
gregational church. The remains were taken
to Bangor on the Tuesday mornings train.
Julia A. Cook was born in Dixmont Maine.
on the Sth day of, July, 1928 and died at the
home of her son, Mr. Frank M Chase in Conn
Gil Grove on November 6, 1909, being past Sc
years of age. The funeral services were con-
Quoted at her late home Tuesday afternoon
November Sth, Rev. Reed conducting the
service. She grew to womanhood in the State
of her birth and in August, 1s42, she was mar
ried to Mr. Edmond Chase To this union two
children were born, one dying in infancy, the
other, Mr.. Frank Chase of this city. Mr. and
Mrs. Chase moved from Portland Maine. to
Kansas in 1870 and settled in Morris county.
five miles west of Council Grove where they
continued to live until 1909, when thev moved
to Council Grove. Mrs. Chase has been val
ued and beloved member of the Congregational
church of Council Grove for 81 years uniting
by letter from Portland Maine January ii,
1St2 This church was then in charge of Rev
Lincoln Harlow, in whose family she had prov
ed ministering spirit while they endured
sorrow in the death of two little children In the
summer Of 1872 Mr.. Armsby began his ministry
Mrs. Chase was among the first to welcome
the strangers to their new home and remain
ed steadfast friend during his long ministry
Some of her admirable traits of character We're
her consistent Christian life her sympathy for
the sorrowing and suffering, and her unfailing
interest IN the progressof the Redeemer's king
dom Deep in her nature was planted the love
OF flowers. She seemed to know by intuition
the variety adapted to the soil of Kansas and
with generous impulse she was ever sharing
them with friends and neighbors. There are
homes in Council Grove today deeply indebted
to her thoughtful kindness for their success in
flower culture Thus her life flowed on calmly
rejecting the glory of a long day spent in
uSelul SERVICE An uDIdlllnS trust III SOd. a
tender appreciation of the loving care that
surrounded her and those truths that sustain
the heart even in the shadows of declining
powers, these we believe We're hers even to
the end.-Council Grove Guard Council Grove
Kansas, November 18th
Mrs. Chase was for many years a resident of
jackson, Maine; her husband, Edmund Chase
having conducted a general store at jackson
Center. Among her brothers we,e Jacob G.
Cook, merchant for years at jackson Mills
and later one of Waldo county's officials, Jessie
H Cook and Eli Cook, prominent citizens of
Jackson. Her son, Francis NJ. Chase, was 1st
Serg't of Co. B, 29th Maine regiment, which
had on its rolls large delegation from Jack
son, Thorndke and Troy Ned, as he was
known in boyhood, was for many years sue
cessful farmer at Council Grove, Kansas, where
he cultivated 500 acres. He has recently re-
tired from active work and removed from his
farm to the near city of Council Grove.
Allen Hanln Roberts, who died in Chicago,
Illinois, November Both was native of South
Jackson, Maine, where he born February
%, 1886, son of Hamin M. Roberts and Mary
Ann (Rich) Roberts. When boy Alien work
ed in the shipyard of N. G. Hichborn, South
Prospect. Later he took a course of study at
the New Hampton, N. H., Free viii Baptist
Seminary and taught schools il Unity and
Thorndike. In the latter town an attempt to
whip and put out the schoolmaster met with
disastrous failure because of the fight
ing qualities developed in Mr.. Roberts. He
also taught for two years in Massachusetts and
Rhode Island where he married one of his
scholars, Miss Kate Weatherhead, who sur
wives him Mr.. Roberts was one of the stu
dents at the school of Samuel Johnson at Jack
son Center, which more than fifty years ago
was the mecca of young men and women of
that and surrounding towns ambitious to ac-
quire advanced education. Among them was
numbered VIM. T C. Runnels of Searsport and
James W. Wallace of Belfast, both of whom
We're especially distinguished as champion
shoulder and elbow wresters Mr.. Roberts
went to Elmwood, Illinois, in 1860, where he
was for some years local agent for the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy r. r. He then embark
ed in the live stock business, which he follow /
ed for forty years in Illinois and Council
Bluffs Iowa, the latter years of his life at the
Union Stock Yards, Chicago. He was an
expert upon the weight and value of car lots (
of cattle, hogs and horses in the latter he hav-