Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-12
KENNEBEC.
WEN MA.
Mrs. George Bradley Whittier.

Lois PrescotD Whittier, April u.
1878, and was the last survivor of a
ia mily of thirteen children, six sons
and seven daughters, whose total
ages were 1876 years, months and IL
d; Us, and whose avsrage age was 81
years, while the average age of the
tLree Oldest was 80 years. Aunt
Hannah" as she was generally known.
WIS the oldest of the thirteen child
rem and had attained, on Aug. 4th the
great age of 80 years, 3 months and
days. She was an aunt of Messrs
. 2. and j. w. Whittier and the
ATE Mrs. Josiah Brown of Farming
-csl, DR.. f. f. Whittier of Boston and
Mrs. Abbie Mary Whittier Meserve,
ne first wife of President Charles
fIancis Meserve, of Shaw University,
Il leigh, N c., and the paternal
Grandmother of Mrs. Ralph Potter,
rperintendent of the public schools
f Vienna. She was Il strong, unique
md typical New England woman,
hfifty and wisely ordering her house
1t Id and interested in every good
v6 I'd and work. She was deeply in
crested in her family history and
eferred with pride To the fact that
q out the year 1900 her paternal
Grandfather, Nathaniel Whittier. to-
sether with Jedediah Prescott, pur-
hased of Massachusetts the town
n D of Vienna and settled his child
- there besides selling land to
tier settlers. She was always a great
der and a keen observer of passing
yants Her facility of expression and
e:entive memory were strong and in
teresting characteristics and she re-
iained in marked degree her mental
faculties until within few months
If her death. She once remarked ia
esiously to the writer that she was
bern in Massachusetts, spent the first
two years of her life in Massachusetts
mi had always lived in Maine. AL
most her entire life. with the excep-
1 n of three or four years, was pass
4 in Vienna. and her last days We're
| the farm adjacent to her birth
Place The few years of absence were
| Ient in Lowell, Massachusetts, in
| elton mill life, as was the ease. in
| he early days of the cotton manu-
| aeturing industry, with large num-
| ,ers of the daughters of the sturdy
| New England farmers. The writer
| las talked with her many times about
aor early days in the mills and learn
| ID that she knew Lucy Larcom and
| vas a member of the literary society
| lat she formed among the mill girls
| md that gave q literary atmosphere
| ven to cotton spinning and weaving.
| he had been, since early life. deep
| interested and devoted member of
| he North Vienna Methodist church
/ Il reading nj
lions Herald had kept herself il
close touch with all the great move.
lments of the denomination, as vel
as the noblest leaders. for nearly three
lauarters of century. During he
lmore active life the clergy were vel
lcome guests in her home. and. oil
Especial occasions, had partaken o
lher generous and abundant hospital
lily. She was one of the oldest mem
bers of the Methodist church in Maine
| md her interest and loyalty continued
| lnabated to the end
During her declining years ana
| since the death of her husband, MT
George Bradley Whittier. in 1891, she
/ rad made her home with her son and
| 'amily, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Newton
| Whittier and their daughter, Mrs
| aura A. Hall, who have given her
| Turing her long illness. careful and
| 'aithful attention by night as well as
| by day.
| The funeral services were at the
! house on the afternoon of the sixth
i # August and were conducted by
| ,er pastor. Rev. H. c. Glidden. assist
| d by Rev. r. T. Kimball, of West
| Baldwin. Late in the afternoon the
| -emains were laid at rest by the SIDE
| Vt her husband and near her birth
| lace, a beautiful spot sloping to the
| est. and looking out upon Mts. Bige-
| w. Abraham, Blue. Bald, Saddleback,
| Washington and the whole Presiden-
| ;al range with many miles of inter
| .ening forests and thrifty. well-kept
| arms, one of natures most beautl-
| sul panoramas.
| The passing of such a strong type
/ If New England womanhood. at al
! most the century mark, calls to mlnu
| he strenuous life of the pioneer days
| md the sturdy men and women such
| INES produced. men and women who
nave built up the best there is in
| New England life. and have given her
name the world over for thrift, en-
| erprise and rugged character.
| MONMOUTH.
| The annual Old Home Week Con
cert, under the auspices of Cumston
| Library Association, will be held at
| Cumston hall, Wednesday evening,
Aug. Is. The Pierces.' entertainers,
of Ohio, have been secured for THIS
popular event. They give two-part
plavs, impersonations in costume and
| character sketches, and are well
known throughout the country, haV-
ing appeared in the Ridpath and
lother Lvceum Bureau lecture courses
in nearly every state in the union.
The program for this year is one OF
their most successful presentations
a dramatization of Captain January,
and representations.
The program for the seventeenth
annual reunion of Monmouth Acad-
emy. Wednesday,, August 10. is as fol-
Iows:-1O 30 A. NJ. sharp-singing,
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