Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-02-28
THE THREE CRAFTSBURY

>RAFTSBURYS
from the quarries to the Simpson
place for construction work in the
spring.
BENJAMIN CATE.
Benjamin Cate died Tuesday eve
ming, Feb. goth, after several weeks
illness of rheumatism of the heart.
Thus another aged and respected citi-
zen has passed on. He was born in
March, 1889, in the same house in
which he died. He spent his entire
life in this home. Had he lived few
days longer he would have reached
the age of 70. He was Of quiet but
very friendly disposition and had
many friends. He is survived by one
brother, Byron Cate, of Nashua, N.
H., and two sisters, Mrs. Colby of
win of East Craftsbury. The funer-
al was held Thursday forenoon, Rev.
C. E. Garvin officiating. The inter-
ment was at the Silver cemetery,
three miles east.
NORTH CRAFTSBURY
Misses Blanche and Belle Silver are
SICK WIN measles.
Mr. Heath of Boston is a guest at
the Orleans House.
Miss Alice Pike, who has been quite
Ill with grip, is better.
Miss Bessie Geddis has been quite
| i'll at the Orleans House.
Miss Ada Hill was at her home in
| Greensboro through vacation.
Miss Katherine Lapierre is at her
| home in Greensboro on account of i'll
ness.
Mrs Sadie Cowles has finished her
work in Greensboro and is stopping at
! n. B. Williams.
Fred Witt of Orleans was in town
| last week to finish the plumbing on
the Root house.
Mr.. Stafford and helpers from Or
leans have begun the painting on C.
| II. Roots new house.
! T. NJ. Gallagher was in Burlington
! last week to see his daughter, Miss
Dora, who is Ill in the hospital.
The Gentlemen's club will meet
March 2, when DIR. Dalton, secretary
| of the state board of health, will be
| the guest Of honor and address the
| members. It is requested that each
| member bring q boy with him at this
! meet -. s. Z guest.
DEATH OF MRS. FLAGG.
Mrs. Martha Brooks (Rowley)
Flagg, the wife of the Rev. Rufus c..
| Flagg, whose death took place in
North Craftsbury Feb 18th, was the
Q oe
| Middlebury. She was born in that
| fore 70 years of age. Her early life
was spent in New Haven, where her
father was a practicing physician.
| About 1850 he removed with his fami-
! ly to Middlebury, where Mrs. Flagg
| resided until her marriage.
| She received her education in the
| public schools of Middlebury and III
! the Female Seminary" then located
! there. She attended also ''Tilden Fe-
| male seminary" at West Lebanon, n.
| H, which was then under the efficient
management of Hiram circuit, an edu-
| Gator then well and favorably known
| throughout New England. Obliged
| to leave school before the completion
Of her course she became teacher
| herself in the schools of Middlebury,
where she was retained for several
years and where she established her
reputation as successful and uni
versally beloved teacher, especially in
the elementary grades.
| Her marriage to Mr.. Flagg took
place July 10th, 1872. AS wife and
mother, and as a co-worker with her
husband in the ministry Of the gospel,
| too much can hardly be said in her
praise. She made her way to the af-
| fections of the people, both poor and
rich, by the evident depth and sinceri-
ty of her own Christian life. She
| loved everyone whom she could in any
way serve with great wealth Of af-
lection, and she therefore rarely failed
to win their affection. The heart was
the seat Of her power.
Since 1910, when Mr. and Mrs
Flagg moved from Newport to Bur-
lington her health was gradually
failing, and she was more and more
confined to the home. Yet, with the
certainty that the end was not far
away, she maintained a cheerful and
generally even a triumphant spirit.
that she was treading on the. verge.
She had no fears, only hopes and
cheering anticipations.
Besides her husband Mrs. Flagg
! leaves to mourn her loss three chill
! dren, Mrs. w. c. Hitchcock of Ash
| land, Wis, DR.. Robert c. Flagg of
Essex, and DR.. Rowley S. Flagg of
Westfeld; brother, the Rev. c. H..
| Rowley, of North Craftsbury, and a
sister, Mrs. Mary S. Bartlett of Phil
ade1phia.
The funeral at North Craftsbury,
! Feb. Is, was in charge Of the Rev. E.
G. French of Hardwick. The burial
will be in the family lot of her hus-
band in Castleton
! Letters and flowers coming from
many sources testify to the loving es-
TEEN in which she was held Her
name was Martha but like Mary she
loved to sit at her Masters feet.