St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-11-29
RECENT DEATHS
Gilman.

Miss Fannie Gilman died at the
home OF her nephews, Fred d. and
Daniel T. Gilman, Thursday Nov
ember %. Miss Gilman was born in
Lyndon, January IA, 1929, and lived
there until about 40 years ago, when
she moved to Passumpsic, remaining
there only a short time She was
the oldest of a family of six, none of
whom survive her. She had a stroke
of paralysis last February and never
recovered wholly from it. Besides
her nephews here, she is survived by
two other nephews, George Clement
and Jean Gilman of California, two
cousins, Mrs. Kate G. Brock of ST.
Johnsbury, and Miss Hannah Gilman
of Roxbury, Mass. The funeral was
held Saturday afternoon at one
o'clock, Rev. E. E. Grant of St.
Johnsbury East, officiating. The buri-
al was at Lyndon Center. Other
relatives are Charles Hubbard of
Lyndon, Mrs. Charles Hoyt of
Wheelock, Mrs. Scott Kelley of SUIT
ton and Mrs. George Ludlow of
Daytona, Florida.
Shearer.
Mrs. Nancy Shearer died Nov z,
at Marshalltown, Iowa, at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Caroline J.
Kimball. She suffered a paralytic
shock nine years ago but was around
the house until three days before her
death. She was the widow of Peter
Shearer and one of the early settlers
of Logan township. Nancy Somers
was born at Barnet, April IT, 1929,
and there married Mr.. Shearer on
January 1, 1851. They went west
in 1854 settling first in Illinois and
in 1869 going to Iowa. Mr.. Shearer
died three years ago. Three child
rem survive their mother: Frank D.,
of San Marcos, Cal, Mrs. Kimball
and W. R. Shearer of Marshalltown.
Mrs. Shearer was a member of the
Congregational church for 40 years.
Mack.
Prof William S. Mack of East
Aurora, ILL.,, a son of William Mack,
one of the first locomotive engineers
on the road here. died November Fl
at Ann Arbor, Mich, where he~ was
the guest of his son, Allen, student
in the engineering department of the
University of Michigan. He attend
ed the Michigan-P foot
ball game on Saturday and was TAX
en- i'll during the game, suffering a
shock of paralysis from which he
never rallied. He was a prominent
educator, for FL years a member of
the board of education at his home;
for seven years a teacher at Aurora;
superintendent of schools at Moline
for some time, then represented the
Prang Art Co. of Chicago for 20
years until he accepted the position
he held at the time of his death, that
of general manager of the art de-
partment of the Scott Forsman Co.
of Chicago. He was the originator
of the idea of artistic decorations in
public schools. He was born in ST.
Johnsbury, April %, 1854, but went
west in 1870 to East Aurora. He
is survived by his wife, his son in
Ann Arbor, and two daughters, An
ma, and Mrs. Marion Sheffield, of
Florence, Mass.
ellison.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred G. Gibson were
called to Bratt1eboro Thursday by
the death of Mr.. Gilson's sister, Miss
Mary A Gibson, who in a sudden fit
of dependency ended her life by
throwing herself into the Connecti
cut river near her home in West
Chesterfield. Mr.. Gibson was at the
Van Ness House in Burlington when
he received the news. A curious
circumstance is that this was the
third time he had received news of
a death in the family, first of his
father, then of his mother and now
of his sister. Miss Gibson had been |
quite an invalid for the last ten years
but had never shown a desire to take
her life. She was 3 years old.
Lewis.
Mrs Frank Lewis of Whitetield
N. H, ended her life on last week
husband is the nephew of Mr.. and |
Mrs. w. G. Lewis of Summerville,
and she was Miss Dudley Of
Concord. She had been in
poor health for the last year
with nervous prostration and |
only the day before had returned |
from the hospital to her home. While
her nurse was away few minutes,
she slipped into the pantry and with
her husbands razor, committed the
act.
Frechette.
Gerald, the Is months old son of
Mr. and Mrs. David Frechette, died
Sunday afternoon and the funeral
Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock.
This affliction seems especially Sc
we're as Mrs Frechette returned from
the Fanny Allen hospital in Win
ooski last Thursday. Mr.. Frechette
went there and accompanied her
home.
ACADEMY NOTES.