The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-09-21
OBITUARY.

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were very much shocked and saddened to learn
of the sudden death of Mrs. Loela A. Clough,
widow of the late DIR. ]. W. Clough, for many
years surgeon dentist in Liberty. which oc-
CURED at the home of her son-in-law, Prof.
George R. Berry, at Hamilton, New York, on
Sunday, September 10th. Mrs. Clough. togeth-
er with her son.in-law and three grandchil-
dren spent the summer at her home in Liber-
ty village and left September LIST for Mr..
Berry's home in New York, where she was to
spend the winter. They arrived there Sep
TENDER 3rd and she was stricken with shock
on the 7th, and without regaining conscious
ness passed to higher life on September 10th.
Her remains were brought to Liberty village
for burial, accompanied by Prof. Berry, arriv
ing there September 18th, but ten days having
elapsed since she had left in apparent good
health. Mrs. Clough's maiden name was
Worthing and she was born in the town of
Palermo in 1886. She was married to DR.. J. W.
Clough in 1866, and continued to live in
Liberty village until the death of her husband
and daughter, since which time she had spent
the winters with friends and relatives in New
York and Palermo, and the summers at her
home in Liberty village. The writer of this
was her nearest neighbor for nearly forty
years, and has known of her joys and sorrows
as much as is possible for outsider to know
She was the mother of two children, son
and daughter. The son died in infancy
The daughter grew to womanhood and mar
ried Rev. George R. Berry, then pastor of the
Baptist church in this village, now professor
at the Colgate University in Hamilton, New
York. Mrs. Clough was good neigh
Dor, kind, sympathetic friend, a ge-
NAL person whose society sought by
young and old She was a member of
the Liberty Church choir for more than
thirty years. She had a rich and a powerful
contralto voice which was pleasing to the lis
tener. During the thirty years that she be-
longed to the choir she assisted in the singing
at nearly two hundred funerals and she had
been one of the singers at the Memorial Day
service ever since its conception, more than
twenty-five years ago, and sang at the service
on last Memorial day. The old soldiers will
miss her and it seems sad indeed that there
was no singing at her funeral. Her sorrows
came upon her thick and fast. Seven years
ago her husband was found dead in his Office
by their little granddaughter, and three years
ago her daughter Mrs. Carrie Berry, sickened
and died very suddenly at her home in New
York, leaving three children, two daughters
and one SON. Her remains were brought here
and laid beside her father. Since that time
tlroo ,l,;1 had
their summers with her at her home in Liberty
village and have been the stay and comfort of
poor, stricken heart. Of large family of
brothers and sisters she leaves but one
brother, Wallace Worthing of Palermo, and
one sister, Mrs. Saunders of New Sharon, Me.
The funeral services were held at her late
home in Liberty village, Rev. H. W Abbott offici-
ating and were largely attended by old friends
and neighbors, who all mourn her sudden going
out, and the floral display furnished by them
from their own gardens was grand beyond any
description that my poor pen can give. All
that is earthly of our friend and neighbor
was laid beside the earthly remains of her
husband, son and daughter in Mount Repose
Cemetery. But we believe that her soul has
passed on to Join them in higher life, to-
gether with the relatives and friends who
have preceded her to the great beyond; that
she has joined the celestial choir over there,
where all her old neighbors are soon to follow.
Yes, we shall meet beyond the river.
Where the surges cease to roll,
Where in all the bright forever,
Sorrow ne'er shall press the soul.
J. o. j..