The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-04-05


charitable. Only those intimate with him
know how much he did for his needy patients,
ana Tor the young men he had helped person.
ally with their studies and financially in their
college days. August 6. 1890, he married Miss
Aob'e N Otis of Belfast. daughtes of the late
oalathlel and Mary (Daddock) Otis. who sur.
vives him. He is also survived by three BROTH
ers and one sister: John NJ Kilgore of Worces-
ter. Mass. Selden H. Kigore of Wichita. Kan.
sas, George Kilgore of La Junta. Colorado,
and Mrs. George Emerson of Skowhepan. His
TWO nephews. Drs. E. A. Kilgore of Brooks
and Harry L. Kilgore of Belfast, were like hia
own sons. had lived in his home and studed
medicine with him; and DR.. E A. Wilson. who
had been intimately associated with him for
more than thirty years. was regarded by him
as brother.
The funeral services were held at the late
home at 230 p. M, April 1st Rev. J. Wilbor
Richardson of the Belfast Baptist church
officiating. and were largely attended by his
friends. business associates and others who
paid this last tribute to the departed The Of
ficiating clergyman spoke in fitting terms of
the loss of this public spirited citizen. and the
many floral offerings bore silent testimony to
the appreciation of the one called home and of
sympathy tor the bereaved. The bearers were
ex.Mayor William K. Keene, Robert P. Chase
Charles S. Bickford ard S. A. Parker.
Marinda Isabella, widow of Capt Horace W.
Brackett, died at her home in East Boston.
March 9th. She was born in Belfast, Dec 8,
1885. the daughter of the late Capt. William
and Margaret (Boardman) Stone, both natives
of Islesboro. She was married to Cant.
Brackett Aug. 18. 1861 by DR.. Cazneau Pal
frey, pastor of the Unitarian Church. For
many years her late husband commanded yes-
sells in the foreign trade. The brig l. W. Par
ker was built for him in Belfast in 1874 They
lived here until the fall of 1880, when they
moved to East Boston. Their three children
We're born here: Isabella, wife of DR.. William
H. Ellsworth of East Boston; William Allen,
who died in infancy, and Miss Marian Wether-
bee Brackett at present Librarian in Brighton.
Mass. Mrs. Bracket attended the public
schools of Belfast aud the associations of her
girlhood and early married life in Belfast were
among her dearest memories. She was happy
in the possession of many relatives. having at
one time rs own cousins. She was Justly proud
of her old New England ancestry. She pos
sessed sweet and gentle disposition, was an
ideal wife and mother and radiaIed sunshine
aud love to all who came under her benign in
fuence and was in turn beloved by young and
old. She had been an invalid for about twenty
years, but as long as strength permitted came
annually to dear old Belfast and its beloved
associations. 1t was great grief to her that
in the past ten years she could not come home;
but, absent In body, until the very last her
mind was here. She was always devout
Unitarian and her enforced absence from the
was great grief to her. She was a member
of the East Boston Unitarian Alliance and the
Home Club for Women and was interested in
the suffragist movement. Her last thoughts
were of the comfort of those near and dear to
her. The funeral took place at her late home
March Both. Her pastor, Rev. Adolph Ross.
bach. formerly of Belfast. officiated, assisted
by her former pastor, Rev. A. D. X. Shurtleff
of Marblehead. who spoke in eulogislic terms
OF her bes utiful life and of the grief Of her
passing, even in her advanced years and ill
health. The remains arrived on the evening
train last Saturday, with the many beautiful
floral offerings, accompanied by her daughter,
Marian and niece, Miss Alice M. Wing, daugh-
ter Of the lite Levi and Margaret {Stone)
Wing of Belfast, who were guests over Sum-
day of their cousin, Mrs. Edith Stone Walden.
The body of Capt. Frank E. Dyer, who died
at his home near Baya Monday afternoon,
March 18th, was taken north on the Coamo
| yesterday for burial at his old home, Belfast,
Me. Services for the dead were held at San
| Antonio Dock Wednesday afternoon by the
San Juan Lodge of Elks, of which he a
member, while a funeral service at the home
was held on Tuesday afternoon, the Rev. NJ i.
B. Wood, of Bayamon, officiating.
For more than three weeks before his death
| Capt. Dyer had been seriously ill and for some
time it was considered unlikely that he would
recover. Death was due to intestinal cancer.
| Capt Dyer was among the first American
| steamship captains to come to Porto Rico nd
he among the best known Americans in
the island. He had been sailor from boyhood
and only seven years ago retired from the sea
to give all of his time to his fruit farm. When
the Porto Rico Line entered this service he
! was captain of the Ponce on her first trip to
| San Juan, and later was captain of the
Coamo. Capt. Dyer was director of the
| Porto Rico Fruit Exchange and the Bayamon
Packing House. Association and was ember
of the San Juan Lodge of Elks and Mason.
His wife, Mrs Valleta Dyer. survives him.
Porto Rico Progress.
! Capt. Dyer's remains arrived here March
2Sth, by express and were placed in the re-
ceiving tomb at Grove Cemetery to await in
terment there later. The casket was draped
with the Stare and Stripes and bore several
wreaths of magnolia foliage. The remains were
unaccompanied as Mrs. Dyer will be unable to
come to Maine until May. and were in care of
Charles N. Black. Al personal friend. Capt.
Dyer was born in North Haven about So years
ago, a son Of the late Nathaniel and Lucy
(Crabtree) Dyer. and was the last of their
family of five boys and two girls. When boy
he was employed for time in the composing
room of The Republican Journal, of which his
brother Russell was the local editor, but type
setting was not copgenial and when a very
young man he began seafaring career, in
which he was very successful. He shipped at
one time first officer with Capt Wilson
Young. whose daughter, Valetta NJ, on
board ,and who criticised her father for shipping
= boy in such position; but not very long after
the "boy" was given command of the schooner
and Miss Young became his wife. Later he