Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-23
WAS DESCENDANT OF
 HALL FAMILY OF LYME.
Career of Mrs. Anna Hall TuthiIi
 Leader in Religious Circles.

Referring to the death in Chicago on March Il of Mrs. Anna Haines Hall Tuthiil, of an old Lyme family. a cor respondent in the New London Day records 8 tribute to her high intel lectual ability and influence for good she exercised wherever she lived.
 Mrs. Tuthill was the widow of Rev. George NJ. Tuthill of Kalamazoo, MicE, who died in 1883. after being for many years agent in Michigan and Wiscan- sin for the American Tract society. Mrs. Tuthiil was born in New York in 1925. of an eminent family in the social and religious circles of that period.
 Mrs. Tuthill's mother, woman of high intellectual ability and active
 missionary spirit, was of the Haines Cincinnati and St. Louis, Mo. She was a cousin of Mrs. T. c. Doremus of mis- sionary Zenana memory. Miss H. York members of that branch of the Haines family The late Dr. Ogden Doremus, the distinguished American chemist, was of that family, and. to- .(the late Rev. William Hall of New York and the late Rev. John G. Hall of Cleveland. O. were educated in the old New York university. then on Uni- versity place.
 Mrs. Tuthin was married in 1s47 in the then Mercer street Presbyterian church. of which she was long a mem Der Or. s. kinner. pastor). also of l. t- bands first pastorate was in 8 Presby- terian church in St. Louis. Mo. He, like her two brothers, was graduated in the Union Theological seminary. Mrs. Tuthin moved to Michigan, where her husband successively became 8 much beloved pastor, for several years each, in churches in Pontiac. St. Johns, Kalamazoo, also for four years in Ashtabula- O.
 By heredity, religious. educational and social training Mrs. Tuthil pos sessed high qualities of mind and good in whatever circle her influence was cast. She was always highly es- teemed for her pre- eminent abilities of mind and heart. None knew her to praise"
 Since her husbands death Mrs. Tuthill lived in the family of her daughter, Mrs. James H. Moore. at religious and phiIanthropic work. Her erect figure. ruddy, animated face and sympathetic interest in all the humani- ties of life showed her all these sue unusual physical, moral and intellect ual power.
 Two sons and two daughters sur vive her, also a sister and two broth Ill., and of Washington. D. C., her sis Pittsburg and Edward T. Hall of Titusville, Pa; her sons, Frank H. Tuthill, William H. Tuthil. and Mrs. Julia T. Moore of Chicago, her daugh- ter, and the late Mrs. Mary T. Bailey of Olala. Wash. another daughter.
 Although a native of New York city, many years of Mrs. TuthilPs youth, as Anna Haines Hall were spent in her fathers home in Old Saybrook. and also much in Lyme in the family of her uncle, Capt Josiah Burnham. a famous sea captain of the early 18th century. Her father was born in 177S in Lyme, the native place of her father and grandfather, who built and operated for nearly a hundred years the first iron foundry in New London county.
 Mrs Tuthill was educated largely at the old Saybrook academy, under that fine old teacher, Deacon Rufus Clark. At 16 years of age she was a teacher of the district school at Pettypaugh. now Ivoryton. It was the good old family and Connecticut education and discipline that gave this most estima- bIe woman the ability and talent to accomplish more than three score and ten years of memorable Christian ser