The Republican journal., 1914-08-27
Sold by w. A. HALL. Belfast, Maine.

Thursday, August twentieth, their many
friends gladly calling to offer congratulations
and numerous good wishes. The changing
years have brought sunshine and shadow to
their lives since this (then young) sea captain
of tv enty- three, and his bride of eightee
embarked upon the matrimonial voyage; but
nausht has dimmed the guiding star of Faith,
and together they still walk the path of con-
slant usefulness, true citizenship and social
companionship. beloved and respected by the
entire community. Many happy returns of
this August anniversary bless this pair, is the
heartfelt wish of Stockton residents. The
late j. W. Thompson married Capt and Mrs
Morse, the second couple upon the long list OF
marriages soemnzed by that popular gentle
man in this and adjoining towns.
OBITUARY. Mr. Josiah Grant Lambert, the
Oldest merchant in town, after strange lin
gering illness OF several years duration, passed
into the bright Beyond" on Sunday, August
16, 1914. having been away from his business
place but two weeks and confined to the bed
only two days. Mr.. Lambert was born in Mon
roe, Sept. IL, 1885, the eldest of the family of
Nathaniel Lambert and Jane Grant Lambert.
After three SONS were given this couple, the
mother a woman of rare energy, industry and
business acumen, determined to struggle alone
for the competency the husband never Sc
cured. and returned to her father. the late Jo-
siah Grant of Prospect, now Stockton Springs.
began sewing and in time opened dry and
fancy-goods business. to which millinery was
soon added. There she established home to
which her children gravitated, each IN turn
finding the out flowing mother-love awaiting
the arrival Josiah, being ambitious for an
education, early worked in a saw mill to &C
cumulate the necessary means for attending
Hampden Academy. and fitting himself Tor
public school teacher. Several terms were
taught, when clerking appealed to his youth
full fancy while visiting his mother, and he
began in the store of the late Capt henry
McGilvery about 1856. Very soon he entered
the employ of Roberts and Hichborn, remain
ing their head clerk for some years, until
he became partner in his mothers III
creasing business, in which he found his
life. work, continuing at that stand until the
O'
April Z, 1860, he married Miss Katharine
Panno of Cape Jellson. who survives him.
Three children were given to them, che, a son.
passing away in infancy, a daughter IN early
childhood and another in young womanhood,
who had assisted her father in his millinery
department., becoming a partner. The de-
cease of this beloved daughter Jennie on May
l, 1897, was crushing blow from which Meth
err parent ever fully recovered. There was
perceptible break in the physical endurance OF
this devoted father and mother, symptoms of
the fatal sickness soon appearing in the strick-
en- fathers system. man of strong feelings.
undoubted integrity. great industry and pc
culiar temperament, he was always loyal cit
izen and kind neighbor. appreciative OF favors
shown him or his family to the fullest degree.
He had taken great interest in schools In his
younger years and long served his town as
treasurer, his extreme exactitude and especial
mathematical faculty particularly fitting him
for such duties. In religion he was Univer-
salist, and had requested that Rev. A. Az
Smith attend his funeral, which he did, the
services being held at his late home on Aug.
18th, with many words of consolation for the
bereaved wife left alone IN her poor health,
and expressions of appreciation of the great
honesty of the deceased uttered by this min
lister from Bangor, long the Universalist pas
tor in Belfast and Stockton. The community
extends deepest sympathy to Mrs Lambert in
her great loneliness. she being the last of her
family as well as her fathers, and to the two
half brothers., Mr.. William Lambert and Mr..
Nathaniel Lambert of Bangor. and the half
sister, Mrs. Marion Booker of Levant, We
know Our Father in Heaven watches over all
His children in love!
.And we know when the silver cord is loosed
And the veil is rent away,
Not long nor dark will the passage be.
To the realms of endless day."
:. For the eyes that shut in the closing hour,
Will open the next in bliss;
And the welcome will sound from the spirit
world
Ere the farewell is hushed in this"