St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-02-10
RECENT DEATHS.
Goodell.

Mrs. c. L. Goodell died at New Britain
Conn, Monday morning at the home 81
her daughter, Mrs Frank II. Heald, with
whom she had been spending the winter.
The funeral was held in that city yester-
day afternoon, conducted BY Rev. DR..
Ozora s. Davis, and the body was
brought here last night. A prayer ser
vice will be held in the North church
chapel this morning at 10 O'Clock and
the body will be placed in Mt. Pleasant
cemetery beside that of her husband.
Emily Fairbanks Goodell was born
here March +, 1888, being the daughter
of Gov. Erastus and Lois Crosman Fair
banks. She was educated at our Acad-
envy, completing her education by a year
az Mt Holyoke Seminary, and a special
course at Lasell Seminary at Auburndale !
Mass. For time she taught music in
the Abbott Female Seminary at An. ,
dover, Mass, then in charge of Miss /
Emma L. Taylor, who spent the last
years of her life in this town On March
5. 1859, she married Rev Constans l..
Goodell, a native Of Calais, who had
completed his educational career at the
University of Vermont, and Andover
Theological Seminary and just accepted
a call to the South congregational
church OF New Britain, Conn. Here
they lived for IA years and Mrs. Goodell
made during that time many friends
who have been delighted to renew their !
acquaintance during her sojourn this
winter in the same city. In 1872 DR..
Goodell accepted call to the Pilgrim !.
Congregational church OF St. Louis and u
IN the | 4 years pastorate in that great r
city, he not only became one of the Il
leaders OF that section, but one of the /
most eminent divnes in the Congrega.
tlonal denomination in the country. "
Soon after his death in 1886 Mrs. r
joodell returned east and has resided 81
much of the time in Boston and Brook NJ
Inc, and Tor several years has spent the ~ ~
winter in Pasadena, Cal, the winter K
ZONE OF her only sister, Mrs. {. NJ.
stone. She has never failed to spend a flo
portion OF each summer ms Johnsbury, ",
where she had a host of friends D..
Her married life was most happy Sp
ne and few men owe so much of their pc
appiness and success to their wives as
)r. Goodell to his In his work of the
Ministry he credited her with fully a half Jo
what was accomplished, and as he tic
imself publicly acknowledged in her he,
omlng into his lite he had been blessed
nth privileges that had added greatly AT
his ministerial power and means of th'
Setulness." The only time the writer ma
let Henry Ward Beecher the CONVEX. ma
ltiDn drfted to Dr. Goodell and his St. am
ous home. The great preacher then o.
AID this notable tribute to the subject Kel
this sketch by saying, There was enc
eater one in that home than DR.. 10
oodell; 1t was Mrs Goodell." She I'M
ayes two children. Oliver F. Gcodell, Me-
no is connected with the Union Trust a.
ompany OF St. Louis, and one daughter, eau
AURA g., wife of Frank H. Heald of an'
w Britain, Conn, and two Young $
andchiIdren, Constance and Weldon Rol
eald. Els
After Mrs. Goodell made her home Bor
ar Boston she gave much time to P,
rvice IN missionary organizations. Nn'
ing for ten or more wears president of e.e'
t Women's Home Missionary Union Ca
Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Rec
q was alec alr,o.4 an 49,. ,l.l.'t " foul
rector of the Womans Board of Mis-
ms Many women in many churches, i
tn east and west, remember gratefully
Illuminating and comforting Bible uaO
idlngs. She was for years an occast feat
lal contributor to the religious press. TIL,
d the little book Chosen" com posed the
these articles, met large sale, and is an l
Il giving help and spiritual strength Slf
many SNN