The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-07-01

men should, under the circum-
stances, have the new survey made.
We understand that the great diff
Lutte knowledge as to exact starting
points.
A very heavy blow has just fallen
upon the family of Frank and Mrs.
May Pratt Jeffords in the death, last
week of their second child, Glenn,
who died at the Heaton Hospital in
Montpelier death following an OPP
Grafton for appendicitis. He had
seemed a rugged, stout lad for his
almost - years. A member of one
of the departments of our village
graded school, he had come to be a
familiar person among the scholars
of the school. We judge it was a
surprise to ALL that he should be
victim of the disease that seemed
to demand his being taken to hos
pital. The morning following the
operation, the glad news came here
that he seemed to have borne it
well, and all was hopeful. But it
soon proved that the shock was too
great for him, and death followed
speedily. He was buried from his
home on Sunday Afternoon, Rev. G.
F. Fortier of the Universalist
church in Mortified officiating.
There was large attendance at the
funeral, including his school mates,
who at the open grave, in our viii
lage cemetery, went around in, and
deposited flowers upon the lowered
casket, as their final tribute. The
dead form may almost be said to
have been smothered in flowers, a.
the hour of his funeral and burial.
Great sympathy is felt for this be-
reaved family, in this their first
srrow, we believe, in the death of
child.
The body of Mrs. Almira Jackson
Prescott, for years at one time a res
ident Of our place, was brought
| here last Monday from Barre City
for burial in our village cemetery
To Mrs. Erskine Rowell we are
indebted for the following, viz:
Mrs. Prescott was born June 10,
1924, in Troy, New Hampshire. and
was married to Newell Prescott of
Vershire June 80, 1868. For about
is years the family lived in YER
shire. Her husband died in 1879.
She was the daughter Of Henry
and Abigail Bruce Jackson, and one
of eight children, of whom only one
now is living, Miss Mary Jackson
In addition to the above we may
say that Mrs. Prescott was sister
Of the late George, Crawford and
Gilman I. Jackson. For score
of years or more she lived in our
Mace, her home having been on the
Chelsea road and in the James H
Walbridge school district. 1t was
wholly a life of widowhood that this
excellent woman lived here, while
she was maintaining home of hel
own and giving her motherly carr
and devotion to the two children II
this home, the boy, Edwin N. Pres
colt, now of Barre City, and the girl
now Mrs. Erskine P. Rowell Of GU
village. Mrs. Prescott's quiet kin
WAYS and solid character could har
" fail to bring her the esteem
friends and neighbors and the Low
and respect of all who knew her
= In late years she divided her tim
I between Mr.. Prescott's family an
A Mrs. Rowell's family of our village
o She was a Free Baptist church W.
4 man. Her last illness is said
e have covered a period of quite
e number of weeks at the home OF E
y win n. Prescott of Barre, whe
s. she died at the age Of So years, al
|. where her funeral was held la
G. Monday morning at $50, Rev. M
p Thayer of the Methodist church
Id Barre, officiating.
y, ! 1.-TWO hands, upon thy breast,
t. And labor's done.