Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-01-04
WESTMORE

Percival Daniels is working at G.
C. Myers.
Joe Wills has been ill several days
with a hard cold.
Miss Mary Wheeler has been Wis
iting in Orleans the past week.
Mrs. u. I. Switzer is slowly gaining
from her illness of typhoid fever.
Ira Lyon and family of East
Charleston visited at Oscar Lyons
Wednesday.
Mrs. U. w. Brown is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Glen Wills, at st.
Johnsbury.
| The annual church meeting has
been postponed until Wednesday of
next week.
George C. Myers died at his home
| Tuesday evening following an opera
| ton for hernia. The funeral will be
held at II o'clock Friday.
MRS. MELISSA WALES COUNTY,
HYDE
Mrs. Melissa Wales (Quint) Hyde,
who died Wednesday, November 2,
1921 was born January "a, 1882, in
| Oxford, N: I'll. She was the daughter
of Joseph Quint and Mrs. Wales
Quint. Her father, who had had
two children by a former marriage,
died when she was quite young. Her
mother, left alone, brought up the
! family, residing for while in Lyme,
N. Ell. Melissa was the youngest of
| five daughters and had two brothers.
For a few years she attended school
in Manchester, N H., residing with a
| sister. She studied at select school
! in Andover N. H., during two terms.
/ Al Of CHI horoy, y0y.k
! in a mill in Manchester, N. H., and
for several years was weaver, al
ternating in this work between Man
chester and Nashua. In Nashua she
resided with a sister, Mrs. Lydia
| Palmer. She was considered one of
/ the most skillful weavers in New
Hampshire.
A souvenir of this period of her
life, which she valued very highly,
was a dozen silver spoons made from
IL silver quarter-dollars by work
er in silver who was employed by
her brother, Atherton Quint, proprie-
tor of a store in Manchester. Of
the dozen nine remain. This same
brother, Atherton Quint, served in
the, Civil war as colonel of the 10th
New Hampshire regiment.
After an acquaintance of 20 years
she was married on March 81, 1881,
to Joseph Washington Hyde. Mr..
Hyde found Melissa Quint in Nashua,
for he boarded for many years with
her sister, Mrs. Palmer, whom Mr..
Hyde characterizes as a very fine
woman. The marriage took place in
ST. Johnsbury, VT.
They came at once to Westmore.
For many years their home was in
the house now owned by Ernest j..
| ~ LIZ
have resided on the farm formerly
known as the Jewell place. q
Before the founding of the present
church Mrs. Hyde assisted in the
holding of religious service in the viii
lage schoolhouse. During the sum-
mer preceding the coming of Mr.
Gill. she alternated with Mrs. Eliza
G. Hunt in conducting such services.
One woman read a sermon one Sum
day by Moody and the other the fol-
lowing Sunday by Talmadge. She
was one Of the original trustees of
the Congregational church and held
this office for many years. She was
treasurer of the Sunday school for
many wears and her reports were ex-
ceptionally interesting. She was al
so president of the Ladies' Aid society
for an extended period She was a
constant attendant at church until
failing health prevented. After that
occasional meetings would be held at
her home and sometimes social gath
erings.
The testimony of friends was that,
"She was patient in severe sickness,
one of the best women that ever was.
1t seemed as though the Ladies Aid
was her life;" Everyone had a good
word for Mrs. Hyde;" "a genuine
Christian;" ga devoted Christian
from her early life;" "a devoted
Wife," "She was particularly help
full to me before / joined the church.
| What she would say was always
good. Anyone could go to her feel
ing that she would get good advice"
"She was always good to me. If she
bered to pay it, even if only 10 cents;
GA beautiful woman" AS president
of the Ladies' Aid society she would
often at social time say, 81 feel
| like rendering thanks and having a
word of prayer" She was never two
sided; always out and out in what
she said. What she told you you
might be sure she would tell some
one else. She was a good friend to
people. always woman of her
word. Kind to everybody" "Noth-
ing but good could be said of her."
Mrs. Eliza M. Hunt, lifelong
friend, now of st. Johnsbury writes
"She always remembered God was
first everywhere. / first knew her in
Manchester, N. H., some over 60
years ago. She then belonged to the
Free Will Baptist church. Mrs. Hyde
loved her home and kept her lamp
burning and helped those around her
to be happy. She enjoyed her friends
and neighbors. She gave those who
came from year to year hearty wei
come and looked forward to their
coming. She had host of friends
and those who knew her best loved
her most. Her morning Bible les
son was always read before commend
} ing her days work. She was honest
in all her dealings and ready to do by
others as she would have others dc
by her"
There YVES genuine trait of sim
cerity about all she said or did. De-
ception or artifcialty were foreign to
her nature and indeed repugnant to
her. She loved and spoke the truth
True herself, she expected truth from
others The atmosphere in which she