St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-03
RECENT DEATHS.
Tinker

After five years OF failing health
during which one paralytic shock
followed another DR.. Charles Francis
Orsinus Tinker passed away on
Monday evening For three years he
had been an invalid and two years
earlier he gave up the practice of his
profession, but was able for a time
to walk and to take pleasure in his
fraternal relations and other inter-
ests. Even lately with the aid of
crutches he could get around the
house and was able to enjoy heart
lily with his family the Thanksgiving
dinner On Friday morning he ate
breakfast but soon after SUITE ri
the shock from which he never re-
gained consciousness. He was wide
ly known in the state through his
connection with the Knights of Py-
thias. He joined. Apollo Lodge as
charter member and held the offices
OF prelate, chancellor, commander
and Sir Knight Captain, resigning
the last Office to become colonel and
aide-de-camp on the personal staff of
Gen. James r. Caranham who COM
manded the uniform ranks of the
Knights of the world. When the
Grand Lodge was embodied in 1888
he served two successive terms as
chosen supreme representative TO
the Supreme Lodge for four years.
He held the Office of Grand Keeper
of Records and Seals for five years.
Charles +. o. Tinker was born in
Ashby, Mass, June %, 1S49 to
Francis and Rachel Hutchinson Tink-
er. He spent his boyhood in Ashby,
Leominster, Fitchburg and Norwood,
most of the time in the last named
place. His father was a druggist and
he spent some time in his store go
ing later to Harvard Dental college
from which he graduated in 1873
and began the practice of his pro-
fession in Boston. From Boston he
went to Fonda, N. Y, where he was
practising when he made the change
to st. Johnsbury to be partner to DR..
.. r. Nettleton. That was in 1885
and after DR.. Nettleton left town he
continued to practice his profession
with success and popularity. ON
July IA, 1870 he married Miss Annie
K. Wellington of Ashburnham, Mass
They had three children, a daughter,
Ora Gertrude, who died when seven
years of age, and two sons, Rev.
Wellington H. Tinker of Ann Arbor, |
Mich, and Ernest f. Tinker of st. |
Johnsbury. Mrs. Tinker and his |
survive him with the two sons. He |
was a member of the North Congre- |
gational church and the acting pas
tor of that church will oficiate at /
the funeral which will be from the |
house Thursday afternoon at three |
o'clock. Rev. Wellington Tinker is /
here for the funeral and two cousins, |
Mrs. Alfred Turner of Waterfowl,
Mass, and Mrs. Frank Patch of |
Bradford, N. H, are also expected.
Harris
Mrs. Eva Cobb Harris, wife of
]. e. Harris of st. Johnsbury, died
in a hospital in Washington, d. c., |
Thanksgiving day, as the result of an
operation performed the previous \
Monday. For some weeks Mrs. Har-
rts had been in a very serious con-
ditfon of health, and the operation
was finally resOrted to as the only
hope of saving her life. The all
ment was of an intestinal character,
and when an operation was at last
decided upon other organs were ia
tally involved and 1t was too late
After brief services at the undertake
ing rooms Friday evening, at which
Congressman Plumley represented
Mr.. Harris in the latter's unaVoid-
able absence, the remains were TAX
en- South by relatives and inferred
in the family lot in Gainesville, Ga.
The two children will remain in the
South with relatives for the present,
but later little John will likely re-
join his father here.
Pond
Mrs. Lewis H. Pond who had been
painfully i'll since the death of her
son, Dwight, in September, died at ,
midnight Monday at st. JohnsbUry
hospital. She was a great sufferer
and the shock of her'son's death less
than a year after her husbands who
died November 20, 1912, was so
great that death came as a blessed
release. Emma ]. McAllister was the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
McAllister and was born in Barnston,
p. O., April %, 1852. On February
/, 1871 she married Lewis H. Pond
and they had four children, OF whom
only two survive her, Edgar of St.
Johnsbury and Robert of West ]
Burke. Besides her sons she is sur
vived by two little granddaughter,
and by three sisters, Mrs. James
Straw, Mrs. Walter Morgan and |
Mrs. Bert Morgan all OF Coaticook. |
She was a member of Grace church !
and the funeral will be on Thursday
afternoon at two o'clock from the !
Methodist church chapel, Rev. Peter I
Black officiating.