Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-02-17
Mrs. Laura Harrington.

At their home, Feb. 2, 1910, Mrs.
Laura Harrington, wife OF Sherman G.
Harrington, passed from this life after a
brief illness with pneumonia. She had
been gradually declining in health fer
many months Notwithstanding the excel
lent care Of the devoted husband and OF
the kind willing sister. She suffered
severely from rheumatism and the
hearts inability to perform its function
but all was borne with remarkable pa
thence and iortitude.
Mrs. Harrington was in her 10Th year,
and her long life has been full of useful
activity, rich in Christian grace. She
was loyal, devoted worker for the Meth
odist church, of which she and her hus-
band were members, and for the societies
to which she belonged. They lose in her
a faithful, able, willing sister, the exam
pie OF whose life, lived in true simplici-
ty, in the practice of sweet virtues, in
loving service, is as light burning on
undimmed, spanning from youth to her
more than three score years and ten an
unbroken arch OF true womRnliness.
Mrs. Harrington was the daughter OF
David and Mary Boutwell was united in
marriage with Sherman Harrington Jan.
/, 1856. A large number OF relatives and
friends gathered at their pleasant home
on their golden wedding anniversary and
many were the heartfelt congratulations.
Father Time had apparently dealt very
kindly with them. So for ffty-four
years they have thought, worked, planned
aud aspired together with remarkable
singleness of purpose. A beauty OF home
life that recalls to mind the scriptural
phrase, "Ihey we're lovely and pleasant
in their lives and in death they were not
divided"
Their path, like all others in this i'm
perfect earthly realm, was not without it's
shadows. She knew what 1t was to have
a husband in the army and in Libby
prison. But the inspiration OF her faith,
her serene trust in the Heavenly Fathers
love, strengthened and solaced her in
every vicissitude OF life.
Mrs. Harrington loved her family and
home to which she was so devoted; she
loved Life and found many worthy uses
for it, yet when the last hour OF evening
came, she was anxious to go, longed for
the happy meeting with the dear ones
who had passed before and after the sa-
cred words of parting, too sacred to pen,
hti oNtNA HlIifA pehceAultg Mlukeu It's way
to the home not made with hands but
over which Gods banner of love ever
waves.
She leaves to mourn her loss besides her
husband, their adopted son, Andrew
Harringto n, progressive business man
II an own child he could not have been
more loved his sister, Agnes Heap, who
was very near to them. She leaves also
one sister, Mrs. Durham, who had the
pleasure OF being with her the last few
months, and brother, Chauncey Bout
well, a longtime resident of Stock bridge
and highly esteemed. - -
The funeral service was at the home
Saturday, Feb. 5, conducted by NJ. L.
Wyman, Jr. Rev. v. NJ. Martin officiat-
ed. The bearers were her nepbeWs. The
floral offerings we're many and very beau
tiful, bespeaking the appreciation and love
OF relatives and friends and the esteem Of
the whole community.
As we are brought to realize the frailty
Of life by the losing of our friends one by
one, let us consecrate ourselves anew to
true simplicity, to unworldliness, to the
love of man and to the love Of God.