Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-19
UNERALS.
Mrs. John ManIas


 Wednesday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock the funeral of Nancy Huntington, widow of John Naples, was held from the home of her daughter. Mrs. John H. Ford, at East Great Plain. In the large attendance were people from other cities. and the floral remem- brances were many and beautiful The i services were conducted by Rev. Peter | c. Wright. pastor of the Central Bap- tist church. and One Sweetly Solemn | Thought and Abide With Me were rendered by George A. Turner and Mrs. Grace Aldrich Crowell. The bearers were Herbert B. Cary, Edward l R. Leach, Samuel M. Billings and E.. LaRue Bliven. Burial was in Yantic cemetery and committal service was read at the grave by Rev. MT. Wright. Church & Allen had charge of the funera. arrangements.
 Mrs. Thomas Latham. l The funeral of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Allyn, wife of Thomas Latham who passed away at her daughters home in Middletown on Saturday, was held at the Methodist Episcopal church at Gales Ferry on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
 Rev. John Thompson of Griswold T church. with the present pastor, Rev. IC. Wilson Harrison, conducted the service, paying tribute to the exem- plary Christian character of Mrs. La tham, whose quiet and unassuming helpfulness extended to all depart ments of the church and to the life of the community. Favorite hymns of the deceased were rendered by the choir Besides her husband Mrs. La tham is survived by brother Gurdon F. Allyn of Leffngwell, one daugh- ter, Mrs. Charles A. L. Morgan of Mid dletown, three sons, Bradford A. of Guilford, Clarence A. of Essex, Charles D. of Hartford, and five grandchildren.
 All of the children and grandchil-. dren were present at the services, her three sons and son-in-law acting as bearers. Many beautiful flowers tes- tified to the esteem in which Mrs. Latham was held and to the sympathy of relatives and friends. The inter ment was in the Gales Ferry cemetery, this being the third burial in the yard within 15 days. The services were largely attended among the out of town friends being Mrs. Edwin Keen ey, Mrs. Richard Povey, Francis Rob- inson and daughter, Mrs. Minnie Nor rison. New London; MT. and Mrs. Nicholas Church, Mrs. D. I. Chapman and Mrs. Henry Bolles of Uncasville, Mrs. w. E. Bracewell and sons, Rich ard and Edwin, from Groton.
 Clark E. Barrows.
 The funeral of Clark B. Barrows, for years a prominent leather manufac- turer of Norwich, was held on We'd nesday afternoon from his late home in Ellington. Burial will take place in Mansfield today.
 MT. BarrOws died Tuesday morning of erysipelas at his home in Ellington, after an illness of three years, much of the time of which he was confined to his bed. He was born in Eastford. September ', 1S43 and was educated in the schools of that town and in the academy in Dudley, Mass. When a young man he went into company with his father, J. D. Barrows, in the leath- CT manufacturing business at Eastport. In middle life he moved to Norwich and was superintendent of the Nor wich Belt company until his health was impaired, when he bought a farm in Ellington. He was a staunch re- publican. He was a representative in the legislature from Ellington in 1879, when he served upon a special com mittee appointed to investigate the management of the state prison, and was senator from the Sixteenth dis trict in 1882 and 1883. He held many other public offices. He was a mem Der of the Ellington Conversational church. Besides his wife, who was Miss Catherine Cheney of Manchester, he leaves a daughter, Mrs. Arthur D. Hale. and a grandchild, all of Filing ton.
 Rev. Romance A. Nichols.
 The funeral of Rev. Romance A. Nichols, preacher and temperance lec- turer, who died Monday afternoon in a sanitarium in Norwich, after lin- gering illness, was held from his home in Waterbury Wednesday afternoon. Burial was in Pine Grove cemetery, where Rev. Horace B. Sloat officiated and the Masonic service was carried out
 He was born in North Adams, Mass, in 1840, and came to Hartford at the age of B to work as a letter carrier. At that time he suffered several shocks and made a resolution that if the DOW CT of his voice, which he lost, was re- turned to him he would devote his eff forts to the ministry. He conducted missions at the Second Baptist church in Waterbury 26 years ago, when 1t  was mission, and after Murphy the temperance revfvalist, left Waterbury. he continued the temperance rallies there. He was pastor of the Second Baptist church in Waterbury for eight years. and then was pastor of a church in Cheshire for four years, after which he accepted a call from West Wads- burgh, Vt. It is said that he had oc- casion to be in Granby at one time and preached lecture on the temperance cause and since that time Granby has been a no-license town, He served three years in the civil war, being a member of the 27th Massachusetts reg iment, He was a member of liar mony lodge, F. and A, M., of Water bury. He leaves a wife and four grand children, Willis G. Bradley and Ray rnond G. Bradley of Hartford, Royal G. Bradley of Waterbury and Preston R. Bradley.