Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-07

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a natural domestic harmony. On
September 9th, 1878, he was marrieh
to Emma Charlotte Brooke in Saint
Anne's Episcopal Church, Richmond,
Quebec, by the Reverend Henry Roe,
DID. Mrs. Reeve is a daughter of
the late William Brooke, for many
years a distinguished lawyer at Rich
mopd, and who was a nephew of Sir
James Brooke, in his lifetime Rajah
of Sarawak, Borneo. The four sur
viving children born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Reeve are William Brooke Miss Marie
Stuart, Mrs. Beatrice Aylmer Hend-
erson, and John Bissell.
When eighty-two years of age, Mr..
Reeve retired from the railway SER
vice, and for the past seven years he
had lived in the complete enjoyment
of his home and continually greeted
by expressions of esteem from the
whole community. Of the banquet
and reception which marked this
transition in his life it was written:
It is the universal opinion that no
event OF a like nature has ever been
celebrated in this vicinity with such
enthusiastic goodwill by every one in
attendance and that any man can
again win from every individual
with whom he transacts business for
so many years, the deep regard ex-
pressed for the guest of the assembly
is hardly possible" In the mysteri-
Gus ordering of human events, of the
number of younger men who that
night responded to toasts, one long
associated with him in the Customs
Service and another who was for
many years his intimate friend and
coWorker in the Church passed on
before him. Now he has come to
that time of which one spoke who
had been with him as train des-
patcher for quarter century: "Of
course there is no man on this earth
without superior officer. We all
get orders and we will get last
order. Mr.. Reeve, yours will be
plainly written, the time, the OK.
etc, and it will read: Proceed with
absolute right of track from this life
to eternal happiness"
Three distinct qualities were evil
dent in the conduct of Mr.. Reeve:
his attention to official duties, his af-
lection for his family and his devotion
to his Church. During all the time
within the memory of the inhabitants
Of this place with hardly an ex-
ception, when Sunday came his tall,
genteel form was observed passing
up the walk to Church. For seventy
five years it was his habit without
interruption to take his place in the
Church choir. The gold cross at
tached to his watch chain, worn by
years of contact with his desk, is the
sacred symbol of the faith that he
brought from the Beautiful old vii
lage church" in England and kept
pure till like Tennyson his soul went
peacefully out into the full flood OF
moonlight, and all who knew him
felt the spirit of the poets prayer
God accept him! Christ receive him.!
Of all the men who labored with
him in the construction of the
Episcopal Church building here, he
was the last to go. On the afternoon
of April 26th, 1915, they caraied his
form out through its doors and con.
veyed it over the line of railway fol
which he had labored so long and
faithfully to Coaticook and from
thence to Hatley. He had never
transferred his political allegiance
from the British Empire nor his
religious faith from the Church of
England. Therefore it seems well
that at last they
Gave his body to that pleasant
couptry's earth,
And his poor soul unto his captain
Christ
Unto whose colors he had served