The Republican journal., 1916-11-16
RECENT DEATHS.

Hon. William E. Spear, formerly of
Rockland, died suddenly in Boston Nov.
Sd III the 10th y ar of his age. He was
the youngest child of the late Capt. |
Archibald G. and Angelica (Branton)
Spear, the other members of the family
being Olivia, wife of ex-Gov. Garceon
of Lewiston; Caroline, wife of U. S.
Senator William P Frye of Lewiston;
Emmeline, the only surviving member of
the family, and Julia, wife of E. D.
Graves of Rockland. Judge Spear re-
ceived his early education in the public
schools of his native town and later at
preparatory schools. He was graduated
from Bowdoln IN the class of 1870 and
after further study at Bangor Theologl-
cal Seminary entered the ministry. He
held several pastorates in Maine and
New Hampshire, after which he spent a
year of travel and study in Europe and
in Palestine. Upon his return ne entered
the office of A. P. Gould in Thomaston
for the study of law. In 1879 he was
admitted to the Massachusetts Bar and
began law practice which he continued
for many years. In 1892 he was elected
to judgeship and in 1898, after the close
of the Spanish-American war, he was
sent to Paris as French interpreter for
law. Senator Frye, being one of the COM
.missioners. Upon his return he was ap-
pointed at the head of the office of the
Spanish Claims Commission with head
quarters at Washington. At the expra-
ton OF ten years, owing to failing health,
! he resigned the position and returned to
Boston, resuming his law practice at 18
| fremont street. Judge Spear was an
/ oil frt
French, German, Italian and Spanish
fuently. He was much interested in
military tactics and in his leisure mo-
ments wrote book on the Civil War en-
titled The North and the South" which
passed though two editions. At the time
of his death he had completed the manu-
script for another book on the same sub
/ Ject. He travelled extensively in this
country and his summers for the last
/ twenty years were spent in European
travel. Besides his surviving sister, he
| leaves a widow and four nieces-Mrs.
/ Edith Garcelon Dennis of Medford,
j Mass, Mrs. Wallace H. White, Sr., of
Lewiston, Mrs. Frank H. Briggs of w ash
| ington. D. c., and Miss Angelica S.
Graves of Rockland. The funeral SER
vices were held at his late home in Bos-
ton Sunday, Rev. S. H. Robin, D. D.,
/ of the Second Universalist church of
Boston officiating. -Rockland Courier
Gazette.
A brief obituary of Mrs. Margaret
Turner, who died Oct. 23d at her home
in Isle au Haul, was incomplete and we
quote as follows from a tribute to the
deceased in the Deer Isle Messenger:
"Mrs. Turner was born at Port la Tour,
N. s., the daughter of James and Emira
! (DoWling) Sholes, and is survived by
/ TWO brothers, Seth, of Boston, Mass,
and Nathaniel. of Belfast, Me-. also her
entire family of eight children, six
daughters and two sons-George and
daughters being Mrs. John Collins, of
, Isle au Haul; Sarah, wife of Capt. Geo.
Sawyer, captain of the E. S. S. Co. 8
steamer Belfast; Annie, wife of Clar-
ence Gray; Bessie, wife of Mark Bald
win, of Springfield, VT; May, wife of
Capt. Jasper Chaplin, and Edith, wife of
Capt. Raymond Conley, of Camden.
Funeral services were held at her late
home on Oct. 25th, Rev. Frank Smell Of
floating, the bearers beng her two sons,
and Messrs. John Collins, Mark Baldwin,
Clarence Gray and Jasper Chaplin. The
floral offerings were many and beautiful.
Mrs. Turner had been an invalid for the
past year or more, and had made her
home with her son Charles. No more
fitting memorial can be erected In her
memory than that which she herself has
raised. Eight noble sons and daughters.
memoirs OF mothers care and training;
and the tender memories of those who
knew her best as friend and neighbor,
always ready to help in time of trouble
and one of whom it may be truly said
that none went hungry from her door,
And though transition may be her gain,
we all will feel our loss.
Carrie C. (HiIls) wife of Roscoe
Staples, died Friday evening, Nov. Sd,
in the Charlesgate Hospital, Cambridge,
Mass, where she had been receiving
treatment the past six weeks for the I'M
suspected malady. She left home in ap-
parently good health, and early reports
from Cambridge were quite reassuring.
Subsequent developments indicated that
the end was not far distant. The re-
mains were. brought to this city Satur-
| day, land funeral services were held from
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