Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-10-13
Emily Haynes Amey.

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cluster. The virtues and the vices
of the deceased come to mind. Such
are the issues Of life and death.
Emily Haynes Amey died at Pitts
burg, New Hampshire, October Sd,
1916, aged eighty-four years, three
months and nineteen days. Her fun
| eral took place at the home Of her
| son, Alfred E. Amey, at Pittsburg,
,, on October 9th.
In the beautiful Indian Stream val
ley, in the town of her birth, where
practically her whole life was spent,
she was laid to rest on splendid
October day surrounded by relatives
and friends. The day Of her funeral
and her burial place were typical of
her character and of the care she has
received during her declining years.
She was one Of the pioneers and
lived for more than forty years in q
remote country district to the north
and east of which were the inter-
minable forests of Maine and Canada.
There, with her husband she labOred
diligently to bring up family Of
six boys. That she performed her
duty we'll is evidenced by the great
physical strength and endurance of
her children, her loyalty to whom
was most emphatic and Intense at
all times. She would readily incur
the i'll will and even the hatred Of
the whole world for her six sons, all
of whom were the same to her. She
showed no partially. She had the
same genuine love and affection for
each regardless of any outward cir
cumstance or varying condition.
With her children she was socialist
and wanted the humber ones to
share with any good fortune OF the
rest.
In the early days, she was prudent;
and, at her marriage at scarce TWEEN
ty-one, had sufficient money and
goods to furnish her home. At the
time of her marriage, her husband
was in debt for his farm; but she
heroically put her shoulder to the
wheel, did the winter chores, and
cared for her children while her
husband walked from five to seven
miles to teach winter school to pay
for home; and, when the debt was
, once paid, it is needless to say that
the farm was never mOrtgaged
again. She was an intellectual
woman of high moral character and
deep religious convictions. She was
a great reader. The newspapers and
the Bible were her dearest friends
and companions; and it was deeply
pathetic, in the closing years Of her
life, to see her read or attempt to
read a newspaper, with the cohesion
of her mental faculties gone. She
would catch a sentence here and
there-a lingering and lapsing effort
to regain her former individuality
She was a Puritan in morals and
fearlessly dealt with immortality
sham and deception with Spartan
severity. In this, she was as sincere
with her children as with other
peoples; and no physical or menta
effort was spared by her to lead hel
sons in paths of rectitude. With
others, she would use the strongest
language in condemnation of wrong,
and no sham or falsehOod ever es
: capped her unnoticed; and, when she
, discovered it, she used a most with
: ering vocabulary in denunciatioT
: thereof. For characteristics Of this
| kind, her children owe her deb
that they never could repay; for, by
: her forceful intellect, she kept them
Y better in hand until they could navi
r gate for themselves.
During the closing years Of hel
life she was most tenderly cared for
by her affectionate son, Alfred E.
and his most estimable wife, who de
serve lasting praise for what they
have done-efforts that money can
not repay.
Truly, her long life was not spent
in vain. She was an ideal mother
and left monument when she
brought up six boys whose intellect
ual and physical strength-Whatevel
they may be belongs largely to her
Her funeral sermon was by The
Rev. Herbert l.. Seymour Of Pitts