Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-26
LINCOLN
ALMA
Capt. and Mrs. Sutton Albee.

Church in Alma on Wednesday, mass
OF beautiful flowers marked the double
grave Of Capt Sutton and Mrs. Re-
becca Albee. The special decoration
was to commemorate the SD ami
versary of Mrs Albee's birth-a low
ing tribute to beautiful life.
1t is rarely that couple live to-
gether for their golden anniversary,
but Capt and Mrs. Albee had been
married more than So years, when
they both died within nine hours. Al.
though a great shock to their family,
| their passing on so nearly together
| seemed a beautiful ending to their
long married life, and it was mos.
fitting that they should be laid to rest
on Capt. Albee's Seth birthday.
Capt. Albee was born in Wiscasset
on July s, 1929 and spent his entire
life in Lincoln county, with exception
of the years he went to sea. In his
early manhood he was master of sew
eral vessels engaged in domestic COM
merce and during the Civil War was
in Southern waters carrying supplies
for the Northern army.
After he stopped going to sea, Capt.
Albee opened market at Wiscasset,
continuing in that business until he
bought a farm in West Alma, where he
lived for "a years.
After their children had all grown
up and gone away, Capt. and Mrs. AL
bee moved to Damariscotta and made
their home with their daughter, Mrs.
E. w Nash, where they still lived
when they were called to their eternal
home.
Captain Albee was a man Of I'M
usually keen intellect and had read
widely. He was a clear thinker and
kept well posted on the topics of the
! day He was a familiar figure at
political gatherings. being a staunch
supporter of Theodore Roosevelt.
! Captain Albee was man of great
vigor and very fond Of walking.
Shortly before his death, he walked
nine miles in one day.
! He had gone to Wiscasset to spend
the day, when he was taken violently
i'll with ptomaine poisoning. His son
hurried him home by automobile and
everything was done to relieve him,
but the end had come and death came
two weeks later, just before his seth
birthday.
Mrs. Albee survived her husband
only nine hours Seeing him suffe.
taxed her waning strength to the ut
termost and her light hold on life re-
Taxed soon after her husband had
passed on.
Mrs. Albee (Rebecca Blair) was
born in Dresden Aug. IS, 1882. When
she was a little girl she went to Wis
casset to live with her aunt. She
attended school at the Old Brown
schoolhouse in the North district
where she and her husband were
! schoolmates.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Albee were married in
1852 and had a large. old-fashioned
family of 10 children, seven Of whom
are left to mourn their double loss.
Mrs. Albee was always delicate and
before middle life developed an af-
lection of the lungs from which she
frail little lady for so many years,
nothing was ever too much or too
hard to do for those she loved; and
her sweet patient cheerfulness en-
deared her to all who knew her.
! While the years Slapped her strength,
she never grew old in spirit and she
enjoyed the things that interested her
children, grandchildren and friends as
much as they did.
Like her husband, Mrs. Albee was a
great reader. Her Bible, she read
constantly. finding in its pages
strength for her weakness and COM
fort and help in hours of pain.
She was pasionately fond Of flow
ers and there were few days that
some friend did not send her bios
som of some kind which she loved
and cared for most tenderly. Those
who knew her intimately will remem-
Der her best as she sat with her Bible
in her hand. her flowers by her side
an inspiration to more unselflsh. bet
ter living. Her gentle spirit like the
flowers she loved. diffused sweet in
fuences in "unsuspected channels
Mrs. Albee had often expressed the
wish that she might be buried in the
morning, and so on the morning OF
July sth their children laid this fine
old couple in one grave to rest, side
by side. after their long life together.
For SO he giveth his beloved Sleep"