The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-05-02
DEATHS HEAVY HAND.
Many Homes Suffer the Loss of Loved
Ones

Many Homes Suffer the Loss of Loved
Ones.
Death has been an unWelcOme guest
in several homes during the week, leav.
ing in its wake deep distress and sor-
row that calls for the coincidence ano
sympathy of the entire community.
/. ANNA COPLEY CARRIER.
Anna Copley was born July 10, 1872,
at Edgerton, and was the only daughter
of John Copley and Mary Finney Cop
ley. She resided continuously at Ed
gerton, where she attended the public
schools and was graduated from the
high school in the class of 1890. She
for some time, and later completed a
She taught school at Fulton and Albany
for several years. On the 9th day of
January, 1900, at Edgerton, she was
united in marriage to Mortimer l.. Car
rier. After an illness of some seven
weeks during which time she was at
the General Hospital atMadison, Wis,
she died there April 26, 1918.
So reads the simple chronicle of a
life, recording the bare facts around
which cluster myriads of ambitions,
hopes, loves, fears, aspirations, defeats
and glorious triumphs. Very early in
life she was deprived by death of a
tender mothers love and this served to
knit together the father and daughter
in a mutual confidence and affection
more beautiful and constant than per-
haps any other human relationship can
possibly be. The marriage of the
daughter in no way minimized this in
Independence. In fact, as her life
broadened and enlarged the father re-
siding near by shared in it and was in
turn rewarded by that most exquisite
flower of life's garden, daughter
reverent devotion.
Mrs Carrier was of that splendid
type of womanhood whose every activ-
ity was undertaken with always the
primary and paramount purpose of pro-
tecting, building up, identifying and
exalting the home. To further this
purpose she has, since her maturity,
always been active and public spirited.
She was unusually successful in her
work as teacher, bringing to that
profession not only her skill and knowl-
edge, but also the fine poise of a strong
and motherly nature Since it's organ
ization she was member and at pres
ent was secretary of the Culture Club,
the pioneer woman's club of Edgerton
To its councils she brought the wealth
of her study and thought. She loved
to delve into the difficult public ques-
tons and delighted in contributing her
full share to the promotion of the asso-
Citations she chose as the avenues Of
her activities. Her prominence in the
work of her home club led to her selec-
ton as secretary of the Federation
Board. She was an ardent advocate of
the ballot for women, because she be-
lieved with all her heart that women
rould and should use the ballot to &C
complish the promotion of the security
pur ty and protection of the social and
home life.
In early womanhood she united with
the Congregational church of Edgerton
and has ever since continued in devoted
utilization herewith. Her religious
convictions were ever deep and abiding.
her inmost life. Religious thought and
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a struggle or conscious effort, but were
constituent element of normal human
existence. Her interests here, too,
were not narrow and selfish. AS mem
Der and president of the Missionary
Society of the Congregational church
she was strongly active in promoting
the dissemination of the gospel at home
and in foreign countries. Conspicuous
as was her interest in educational and
religious life, it was in her home as
housekeeper, wife and mother that her
virtues shone most resplendently. A
devoted husband and lovely children
stimulated her to the highest develop
ment of her fundamental and predom-
mating instincts of domesticity and
consecrated maternity. No one but
the bereaved husband will ever quite
know the wonderful wealth of brooding
love and exquisite tenderness she law
ished upon her home and her every one
who clustered around it's hearthstone.
Her gentle ministrations and beauty of
character will surely persist in the
lives of her little ones, whom she so
sweetly nutured Her life was all too
brief in years, but measured by any
other standard, how ripe, how complete.
Charles Copley, a brother, preceded
her in death, as did her mother. Of
her blood kin she leaves her father,
John Copley, her husband, Mortimer L.
Carrier, and three children, Charlotte,
aged 9 years, Mary, aged and little
John Copley, aged years.
The funeral was held from the late
home and at the Congregational church
on Wednesday, April Both, and the in
terment in beautiful Fassett cemetery.
Rev. L. A. Parr of Geneseo, Illinois, a
former pastor of the church here,
preached the funeral sermon.
MRS. BURR j. SCOTT.
In the meridian of her womanhood