The Republican journal., 1915-09-02
OBITUARY.


Cedar street at p. M, Aug. 26th, after brief
illness of neuralgia of the heart. She was
taken ill the evening before and remained in
bed Thursday by the advice of her attending
physician although her case was not consider
ed critical The end came as she WAS well
coming her house guest. Mrs. Emma K. Koch
ersperger of Sea Breeze. Fla, who had return
ed from a visit in Bangor. Mrs. Crosby had an
illness last winter caused by vertigo, but was
rarely ever confined to her home and was re-
markably active for one of her years. She
was born in Belfast in December, 1889, the
daughter of the late Nathaniel and caroline
w. Merrill and with the exception of q few
winters in Portland her life was spent in her
native place. She attended the city schools
marriage to William Fowler in the fall Of 1868.
Mr.. Fowler died five months later. In 1874
she was united in marriage with William, eld-
est son of the late Gov. William G. Crosby, at
the home of Mrs. Olive Hayford Cooper, an in
innate friend, and went to live in the Crosby
home. Later they moved to her late home.
where Mr.. Crosby died July 8, 1896, aged 81
years. For many years she had been a con-
slant after dant AT the Unitarian church and
was member of the Unitarian Alliance. She
was fond of society and was member of one
of the first whist clubs, of which only few
members remain. She was also member of
the Fortnightly Club. She was generous and
charitable, and many will miss her. Her three
sisters, Mrs. Mary Clark of Winchendon,
Mass, Mrs. Julia Mitchell of Pen Yam, N Y.
and Mrs. L. M. Wood of Worcester. Mass, sur
vive. Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Wood and Miss
Mary Clark, her niece, came to attend the fu
neral, which took place Sunday at 2 80 p. M,
her pastor, Rev. Arthur E. Wilson, officiating.
There was a large attendance. The bearers
were Messrs. Robert P. Chase, Fred v. Cot
trell, M. R. Knowlton and Ben d. Field. The
interment was in the family lot in Grove GEM
etery.
Mrs. Eleanor Horn, formerly of Freedom,
died Aug. 26 in the Waldo County hospital
of uremic poisoning, aged SO years and one
month. June 10th she was before Judge Way
land Knowlton in the Municipal court of this
city charged with ''unlawfully kindling fires on
property not her own"-viz., on woodlots and
cut timber on lands of Chas. F. Bessey and
Frank George of Freedon-and failing to get
sureties for $500 was committed to Jail to
await the action of the grand jury at the Sep
TENDER term of the S. j. Court. Accustomed
all her life to an out of door life, the confine-
ment of the jail told upon her health and she
declined rapidly land Aug .16 tn was taken to the
hospital. No hope for her recovery was then
entertained. She had been employed as house,
keeper by Joseph Elliott of Freedom and was
accused of other offences in the neighborhood,
all due, it is believed to an unbalanced mind,
and she was practically insane when committed
to Jail. A brother, Charles Howard, lives in
Bucksport, married daughter, Mrs. James E.
Thorndike lives in Liberty, and another daugh-
ter and son could not be located. Her brother
called on her at the Jail, but did not come to
claim the remains, which were taken to the
Coombs undertaking rooms. Saturday morn
ing Mr.. Charles Sanford, neighbor of Mrs.
Thorndike, came to Belfast and took the
mains to Center Montville, where a prayer SER
vice was held and the interment was in the
Kingdom cemetery. The attending physician
says that without doubt Mrs, Horn was not
in her right mind at the time of her misde-
meanors and should not be held responsible as
the malady from which she suffered often
caused such mental trouble
Alden C. Emery was born in the town of
Montvlle. Maine, April %, 1884, and died in
Grelton, Ohio, July 49, 1915, aged 81 years.
months and Is days. He was the son of the
late Levi and Lois Keen Emery, and was the
eighth in descent of family that came from
Hampshire, England, in the great Puritan
emigration that took place under Charles the
First. The family came to Boston in 1886,
whence their descendants have spread to many
parts of the country. Mr.. Emery was the
eighth of a family of eleven children. of whom
only two survive: Mrs. Harriet N. Crockett of
Grelton and Mrs. Ellen E. Senter of Napoleon,
Ohio. The pioneer spirit that brought immi-
grants to the New World in the early days
sent their descendants on to the frontier.
Eight of the Emery family went to Henry
county. Ohio. in the early days. The subject
first he was engaged in numbering in the big
woods, on which the axe of the settler had as
yet made little impression. In 1862 he bought
farm in the town of Harrison, on which he
lived until he moved to the village of Grelton
three years ago. In his long residence in one
place he formed large circle of friends and
none knew him but to love and respect him.
He married, first, Mrs. Carolyn Senter, who
died in 1888. OF this marriage there was one
son. Vernon ]. Emery. October q, 1890. he
married Miss Cynthia M. Peck, who survives
him. The funeral was held in the Methodist
church in Grelton July 18th, and was conducted
by his son. Rev. Vernon ]. Emery. by his
fathers request.
SWANVILLE CENTER
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Barden attended the Etna