Connecticut western news., 1913-04-17
HANNAH ]. STEWART
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 his assumed simplicity and greeEhorn curiosity concerning the "iron logs dis armed the Britons of suspicion, and made it easy for him to explore the whole 1 fort and convey valuable information to the continental general.
 She was born Oct. II, 1893. her parents being Anthony Hosford and Sallie Hewitt. She attended the East Canaan school, which was then located opposite the site of the present school house. l Among her schoolmates were number of boys and girls of the old pioneer stock, who grew up with her to maturity and old age; and one of the pleasures of her later life was the annual reunion of coterie of those schoolmates who organized themselves into the Square Roof Graduates" so called in memory of the architecture of the old school house. These ladies organized in 1860 and held their first meeting with Mrs. Sewart. The original members were Mss Kate O. Lawrence. born in 1922 Mrs. Jane Peck Briggs, born 1898 ; Mrs. Sewart, born 1898 Mrs. Mary Daboll Holt, born 1895 Mrs. Esther Dunning, born 1927. Later the little society grew, by the addition of Mary Lawrence, Julia Ann Daboll and Mrs. Sabra Humphrey. Their annual meetings were kept up until the membership dwindled as death called the members one by one, and it is significant that the last meeting, as we'll as the first, was held with Mrs. Sewart, last October, when only three of the members were living. Today Mrs. Sabra Humph- rey and Mrs. Esther Dunning are the only survivors of the "Square Roof Graduates" f...
 As girl, Mrs. Sewart learned the millinery trade, with Mrs. George W. Cowdrey's mother. who lived near the present Garfield lime kilns. after which she went to Rochester, N. r., where she had sister. and worked at the millinery business. While in that city she met her future husband, Reuben Sewart, to whom she was married in 1843, and by whom she had five children-Dr. A. W. Sewart, now of Pittsfeld; Ella Sewart Briggs, of Canaan, at whose home she died Reuben Sewart. who died here in 1909; Mrs. Julia Sewart Rood, who died in 1876. and Phoebe Sewart, who died in 1861.
 The family moved from Rochester, to East Canaan in l846, and in the early Gays of the "gold fever" following the discovery of gold in 1S49, the husband never returned He died there in 1881.
 With degree of bravery worthy of her heroic ancestry. Mrs. Sewart faced the battle of life with her family of children after the departure of her hus. band, and sustained by an abiding faith and a rare devotion, she became a min istering angel in the community. She nursed the sick with tender skill and care. and in those days when specially trained and high salaried nurses were unknown, and when the preparation of the dead for burial was labor of love on the part of sympathetic neighbors, her presence in the homes of the afflicted and bereaved was like benediction. and many stricken family felt the com forting and sustaining influence of her sweet, Christian, helpful spirit, and called her blessed.
 In her early years she joined the East Canaan church, and was one of the old est members at the time of her death, For many years she was teacher ip the Sunday school. By reason of her firm and answering faith, her enduring love for humanity and her cheerful and op- timistic spirit,she was beloved by all who knew her, and the beauty of her Chris tian life and her sweet saintly soul will finger like perfume to keep her mem. ory alive.
 Since her daughter Ella married Albert P. Briggs in 1868 Mrs. Stewart had made her home with her, and was as much a part of the Briggs household as any member of it, and the affection that ex- isted between her and MT. Briggs was that of mother and son indeed. The relations of mother-in-law and son-in- law in that household were the direct opposite of the familiar and popular characterization Of that relationship. No son could be more devoted to his own mother, nor more solicitous of her con- fort and happiness.
 | Mrs. Sewart leaves her daughter. Mrs Briggs. son, Dr. A. W. Sewart, of Pittsfleld, five grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.