Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1926-06-02
INTO FULLER SPACE.

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sight
Over the rounding sea. A. CLEAN of
white,
last far-fashed farewell, and, like
to thought
Slipped out of mind, it vanished and
not
Yet to the helmsman standing at the
wheel,
Broad seas still stretched before the
gliding keel.
Disaster? Change? He left no slight
est sign,
Nor dreamed he of that dim horizon
the tide
glide
bound
yond.
Selected.
Mrs. Mary E. Mayo, "Aunt Madge"
American, died at her home in Blue
hill at o'clock last Wednesday
morning, after short illness of
pneumonia. Her death followed that
of her husband, Eben w. Mayo, by
only eleven weeks. 1t was as she
would have willed. While Mrs. Mayo
continued to carry on helpfully,
hopefully and cheerfully, after MI.
Mayo's death, the will to live was
not there. Only few days before
she was taken i'll, when her daugh-
ter cautioned her against exposing
herself to a cold, she said with
something that seems now IKE
prophetic vision: Suppose | should
catch cold, get pneumonia, and die.
| am ready. | have lived my lie.
My dearest hope, to outlive your
father, has been realized. l am
ready" And, truly it may be SAID,
no one was ever more ready to an
swer the summons than was she.
Our pen is inadequate to pay fit
ting tribute to the beautiful and
helpful life that has passed. Hers
was truly a life of helpfulness-
helpfulness in the home, in the COM
munity, and in the larger world
that she touched through the M. B.
column. Hers was the charity that
saw only the good that is in the
worst of us, and overlooked the bad
that is in the best of us.
Mrs. Mayo was born in Bluehill,
on August "a, 1S47, only a stones
throw from the house where she
died. She was the younger daugh-
ter of Haskell w. and Elmira
(Peters) Johnson, descendants of
some of the first Bluehill families.
From her father, known throughout
Hancock county as teacher OF
music, she inherited a musical talent
that would have carried her far in
the profession, but the death of her
only sister caused her to abandon a
career to be with her parents.
She was educated in the common
schools and at the Bluehill academy,
teaching school between terms at
the academy, until her schooling
covered seventeen full years. She
taught in Bluehill, Brooksvlle, Sedg-
wick and other neighboring towns.
After leaving the academy, she
went to Boston, and studied music
with Myron w. Whitney, one of the
celebrated teachers of his day She
took lessons in both voice and piano
and organ, and evidenced unusual
talent in BOTH Among the concerts
in which she sang at this time was
the great Peace Jubilee in Boston in
1863 But the call of flial duty, as
before stated brought her back to
Bluehill and here, all her life she
had given of her talents and of her
time, NOT only in the home but in the
community. For fourteen years she
played the organ in the Baptist
church, and after that for twenty
years at the congregational church
Of which she was a member. She
possessed literary talent, also, and
was frequently in demand for
original verses or songs for local oc-
casions. Her name, with two of her
short poems, was included in poets
of Maine" published in 1888.
Mrs. Mayo was married, in 1881, |
to Eben w. Mayo, and proved a |
helpmate in every sense of the word. |
Their married life was truly a happy |
one, and their home approached the |
ideal There are two children, |
Norman H., of Portland, and Alice, |
wife of Supt Frank II. McGouldrick !
of Pittsfeld.
The funeral was held at the home |
Friday afternoon, Rev Frank R. |
Hamilton of the Congregational |
church, officiating, assisted by Rev. |
T. L. Brindley of the Baptist church. |
A profusion of flowers, and a large !
gathering of friends and neighbors, |
told of the high esteem in which |
Mrs. Mayo was held. The following |
poem by Whittier, selected some |
time ago by Mrs. Mayo herself, was |
read at the funeral:
AT LAST.
When on my day of life the night is
falling,
And. in the winds from unsunned |
spaces blown
hear far voices out of darkness