The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-04-14
IN MEMORIAM.
Words of Appreciation of Life of
Charles Howard Beede.

Charles Howard Beede,
To the memory of the late Charles
Howard Beede by his son, Clinton:
So he has gone, and what was mortal
we have laid away to return again TO
dust, from which it came, and we believe
the spirit has returned to his Father
and our Father, who gave it. Our hearts
are aching now, for we shall see him
no more on earth, and he will mingle
no more with us in our joys and sor-
rows
Although we know tbs Gods plan of
human life to take away that which
He gave when He sees fit, yet when the
time comes for our near and dearest
friends to cross over the river into the
border land, we somehow are not ready
for the transition, and mourn more for
the lost presence and empty void brought
into our own lives, than for the actual
fact that the dear one has gone out
of this life of pain and woes into the
untried and unknown future, for which
this present existence is but stepping
stone to something, not worse, but bet
ter
With this thought in mind let us
as a family, who so grievously mourn
the loss of our father and brother, and
the score of friends and acquaintance,
who will so miss the man that had
CHEEKY word aud smile for all, console
our hearts and minds in the belief that
he, at least, is better off, having passed
from his years of pain and suffering
from rheumatism and the more recent
aggravating trouble which must Ger.
tainly end in death.
In private life, as man Of business,
he was fair and upright in his dealings
with all with whom he had business,
and from q business standpoint we must
50 his life was surely a success, and
the disclosure of his thought and talent
in this direction would be an object les
son for any young man to-day worthy
of emulation.
Born Aug. 3, 1880, in Haverhill Mass,
the eldest of a family of seven sons
and four daughters, born to Joseph and
Mary Beede. he came with his parents
in early childhood to Washington, VT,
and as his father was a farmer, he was
very early initiated into the rudiments
of that occupation and from that early
beginning, he followed on in the same
line during the greater portion of his en-
tire life, only having retired from farm
ing in the spring of 1905. He was a
born farmer, enjoyed it and made a sue
cess OF it. The deceased began working
out on farms at the age Of fourteen
and earned and carried home to his ia
Their of his earnings, $4,000, at the low
wage of his time He was self-made
man and won his competence by his own
hard work and close attention to the
business at hand
He married Almira f. Wilds of Orange, |
VT, in Laconia. N. H., Aug. 81, 1862, |
and on the following day Joined his !
comrades in an enlistment of volunteers,
which was just then leaving Montpelier,
for the South. He went in Co. I, 18th |
Reg VT volunteers, under Col. Randall. /
He was in the seven days march of his |
company on the bloody field of Gettys-
burg. His younger brother, Horatio.
went at the same time and was with /
him in this battle, although their time
of enlistment was expired as nine-month |
boys.
Soon following this, they were dis
charged and came home. 1t is reported |
that our father was brave and fear !
less soldier About 1870, he purchased I
and moved onto a farm in Topsham
Waits Riverl. where he resided II /
years, coming then to Barre for time
and returning again to West Topsham
a year OF two later and purchasing the I
VIZ al - Io
ed successfully until it burned in the I
fall of 1890. During the fall of 1892,
he purchased land near C. NJ. Winehs |
on east hill, and built new buildings, |
where he lived until the death of his
wife, in the winter of 1906, and since
then making his home mostly with his
daughter, Mrs c. f. Bixby,
on Beckley hill, up to the time of his
death, the 4th inst.
OF him, his children can say he was
4 kind and loving father and a good
his neighbors and friends, we
believe, will miss him as pleasant ac-
Iuaintance and good friend always,
and a familiar figure on the streets
Of his home city. He had lived to see
It grow from small country village to
4 thriving city. He was an active, hard
working man and by his thrift and
energy and the combined prudence of
himself and companion, he won COM
oetence of which they were both de-
serving and may have been justly proud.
The funeral was well attended from
Hedding M. Il. church at 10 a. m, Fri
lay. and the remains taken for burial
10 the West Topsham cemetery in the
family lot, where he had erected a mon
ment to his wife and self some three
years ago. Many were the beautiful
lowers from relatives and friends and
he attendance at the church showed the
esteem in which he was held. To mourn
his loss are a son and three daughters,
,lso three brothers and one sister and
, host of friends.