ROLAND B, ANGELL

Again has the Grim Destroyer visited the "Ridge Road" in the Town of Champlain, taking away this time one of its estimable young men,Roland Brooks Angell, after a brief illness confining him to the house.Mr. Angeil was born February 3,1880, and passed away Nov.16,1910 about midnight. The Rev. J.F Wright officiated at the Funeral

which took place at the Angell home residence Wednesday afternoon, Nov.l6th.

Deceased was interred in the family plot where are buried his parents,Elisha W. Angell and Henrietta Loomis Angell, and two brothers and two sister.Roland was the last surviver of his family. His sisters, Nellie Lynn Angell and Bertha Warner Angell died in March, 1876 and were buried the same day; and his twin brother Royal Loomis Angell died May 11, 1880.Aged three months, while another brother, Oscar Fitz Allen Angell, died March 28th,1866. at the age of two years.

The deaths of these brothers and sisters through a shadow of sorrow upon the household which in God's good time was cleared, but absence of a brother or sister must have saddened his early boyhood life on the farm.

Mr. Angell was a talented musician and loved his chosen profession; many young people in the neighborhood acquired their first musical education at his hands. After the death of his father in 1903 he remained sometime on the home farm with his mother and went to Lowell Mass and other New England cities where he gave musical instruction on the piano,and during the Great War he was employed in a munition factory thus doine his bit for his counry to the best of his ability told the writer.

On the death of his mother in Sept 1915 he returned and took up the management of the home farm.

All his life he was a great sufferer from asthmur which finally undermined his costitution largely contributing to his untimely death.Some two months ago he suffered.