Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-04-28
OBITUARY..
MRS. MARY MOODY HARRINGTON.


On Wednesday morning, April 9Th, at
twenty minutes to four, at her home,
II Seymour street, Middlebury, Mrs.
Mary E. Moody Harrington entered into
the light beyond. Her health had been
falling for some years, but she was taken
very i'll at Easter time year ago. From
this illness she rallied to am extent and
became moreicomfortable, so that in the
summer and autumn months she was
able to sit up, though not able to walk.
But from Christmas time, her strength
rapidly failed, and on Sunday evening"
January 18th, she was taken suddenly
worse, and was in very extreme condi-
ton of illness from that time till her
death. The funeral services were held
in the Congregational church in Middle
bury on Friday afternoon, April 7th, at
two o'clock, the Rev. Richard B. Esten,
pastor of the Memorial Baptist church
officiating. Music was rendered by a
quartet consisting of Miss Carpenter,
soprano, Miss Harwood, alto, Mr.. Wood
ard, tenor end Mr. Atwood, bass. The
bearers were James Tracey, Charles
Baine, Robert Manney, Walter Martin,
Jerome holland and Martin Barrows.
The interment was in the family lot in
the CO netery at Weybridge HILL
Mrs. Harrington was born in Wey-
bridge August 9th, 1889. She was the
daughter of Charles and Mary (Abbop
Moody. Her mother died when she was
little girl and she was brought up in
the family of her grandfather, Zenas
Abbott, of Weybridge. She prepared
herself for teaching school and taught
for some terms, but in 1866 married
John Handy Harrington, a man of Bos-
ton birth, who had lately come from
nearly five years service in the army in
the Civil War. They lived for a time
in Brooksville, but finally settled in
Weybridge. There were born to them
in the course of the years, six children,
of whom four are now living: Miss
Ellen +. Harrington and Carlos q. Har-
rington of Middlebury, Mrs. Herbert E.
Trask of Boston, and the Rev. Vernon
g. Harrington of Cleveland, o. Mr..
and Mrs. Harrington lived many years
in Weybridge village, but, in the autumn
of 1884, moved to New Haven Street for
the sake of the educational advantages
of Beeman Academy. In 1887 they
came to Middlebury on account of the
college. Mr.. Harrington died March
Cd, 1894, after an illness of nearly five
years with paralysis. Now his wife has
gone forward into the unseen country to
the reunion with him and with so many
relatives and friends gone on before.
Mrs. Harrington had been a member
of the Congregational church of Middle
bury ever since coming here in 1887.
She loved the church and attended its
services always when she could, even if
it was difficult for her to 20. In the
last years of her life, when unable to go
in the winter, she looked forward with
great eagerness to the looming of spring
when she could 90 to church. She was
a woman with the highest ideals of up
rlghtness, temperance, generosity, kind
ness and neighborliness. These she
put into practice in her own life AMI in
stilled into the minds of her children and
friends. She had high ambitions for her
family and always sought to afford them
the best opportunities for education and
preparation for efficiency in life. She
was remarkably unselfish and thought
full of the welfare of others. Her life
has left rich legacy in the lives of all
who knew her well. To those nearest
to her, her passing into the unseen
country has brought sense of loss so
great and 30 keen that it cannot be put
into words. Surely her Christian char
acter will not lose its power in the lives
of those who knew her best, and they
will realize, as the days go by, that she
HbeinP dead vet speaketh"