GRAFTON
MRS. E. S. HALL.
The death of Mrs. Elizabeth S. Hall, which occurred on the evening of September 26, calls for more than passing notice of a remarkable woman. Mrs. Hall was for nearly 30 years postmistress at Grafton, although for some time the active duties have been given to her daughter. The keen interest in public affairs which characterized earlier years, however, she never lost, but was in her 80th year, so far as her health would permit, the same ready thinker and worker as ever. Living in this quiet town, and for long periods kept at home by her own illness or that of her family, Mrs. Hall's interests and sympathies were yet world-wide. With rare intellectual gifts, her mind had been cultivated by years of appreciative reading and rich thought. Endowed, too, with an unusually accurate and ready memory, and with rare facility of expression, it was not strange that those who met her only casually spoke afterward of her wonderfully interesting personality. But when one knew her as a friend, he realized that Mrs. Hall's spirit was as broad and richly gifted as her mind. One found her sympathy always so ready and so sure, her generosity so kind and so practical in expression, her interest in all that is good and beautiful so frankly expressed, her faith so confident, her courage so strong, that a visit to her always meant new inspiration for the duties of life and new appreciation of its opportunities.
Whoever came to her, whether the needy, the sorrowing or the discouraged, went away helped and comforted, and into the happiness of your than the joy of the prosperous she never failed to enter with the same welcome sympathy. "Deserving all praise, she needs none." Such a life came to a beautiful ending, when she bade her friends "good night" with words of pleasant anticipation for "tomorrow," and ten within an hour passed while asleep to "the rest that remained for the people of God."
WALTER H. CAMBRIDGE.
Southborough, Mass., Oct. 3, 1898.
[Mrs. Hall had been very feeble for a long time, but was nevertheless in her usual health until the Friday before her death, when she was injured by a fall, causing a shock to her system from which she could not rally.]
The Vermont Phœnix
Brattleboro, Vermont
Friday, 7 October 1898
page 10, column 3
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Hall of Grafton, a sister of Mrs. Bancroft, aged nearly 80 years, took place on Thursday. The family was laid in the family lot in the cemetery at Saxtons River.
The Vermont Phœnix
Brattleboro, Vermont
Friday, 30 September 1898
page 3, column 3
MRS. E. S. HALL.
The death of Mrs. Elizabeth S. Hall, which occurred on the evening of September 26, calls for more than passing notice of a remarkable woman. Mrs. Hall was for nearly 30 years postmistress at Grafton, although for some time the active duties have been given to her daughter. The keen interest in public affairs which characterized earlier years, however, she never lost, but was in her 80th year, so far as her health would permit, the same ready thinker and worker as ever. Living in this quiet town, and for long periods kept at home by her own illness or that of her family, Mrs. Hall's interests and sympathies were yet world-wide. With rare intellectual gifts, her mind had been cultivated by years of appreciative reading and rich thought. Endowed, too, with an unusually accurate and ready memory, and with rare facility of expression, it was not strange that those who met her only casually spoke afterward of her wonderfully interesting personality. But when one knew her as a friend, he realized that Mrs. Hall's spirit was as broad and richly gifted as her mind. One found her sympathy always so ready and so sure, her generosity so kind and so practical in expression, her interest in all that is good and beautiful so frankly expressed, her faith so confident, her courage so strong, that a visit to her always meant new inspiration for the duties of life and new appreciation of its opportunities.
Whoever came to her, whether the needy, the sorrowing or the discouraged, went away helped and comforted, and into the happiness of your than the joy of the prosperous she never failed to enter with the same welcome sympathy. "Deserving all praise, she needs none." Such a life came to a beautiful ending, when she bade her friends "good night" with words of pleasant anticipation for "tomorrow," and ten within an hour passed while asleep to "the rest that remained for the people of God."
WALTER H. CAMBRIDGE.
Southborough, Mass., Oct. 3, 1898.
[Mrs. Hall had been very feeble for a long time, but was nevertheless in her usual health until the Friday before her death, when she was injured by a fall, causing a shock to her system from which she could not rally.]
The Vermont Phœnix
Brattleboro, Vermont
Friday, 7 October 1898
page 10, column 3
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Hall of Grafton, a sister of Mrs. Bancroft, aged nearly 80 years, took place on Thursday. The family was laid in the family lot in the cemetery at Saxtons River.
The Vermont Phœnix
Brattleboro, Vermont
Friday, 30 September 1898
page 3, column 3
GRAFTON
MRS. E. S. HALL.
The death of Mrs. Elizabeth S. Hall, which occurred on the evening of September 26, calls for more than passing notice of a remarkable woman. Mrs. Hall was for nearly 30 years postmistress at Grafton, although for some time the active duties have been given to her daughter. The keen interest in public affairs which characterized earlier years, however, she never lost, but was in her 80th year, so far as her health would permit, the same ready thinker and worker as ever. Living in this quiet town, and for long periods kept at home by her own illness or that of her family, Mrs. Hall's interests and sympathies were yet world-wide. With rare intellectual gifts, her mind had been cultivated by years of appreciative reading and rich thought. Endowed, too, with an unusually accurate and ready memory, and with rare facility of expression, it was not strange that those who met her only casually spoke afterward of her wonderfully interesting personality. But when one knew her as a friend, he realized that Mrs. Hall's spirit was as broad and richly gifted as her mind. One found her sympathy always so ready and so sure, her generosity so kind and so practical in expression, her interest in all that is good and beautiful so frankly expressed, her faith so confident, her courage so strong, that a visit to her always meant new inspiration for the duties of life and new appreciation of its opportunities.
Whoever came to her, whether the needy, the sorrowing or the discouraged, went away helped and comforted, and into the happiness of your than the joy of the prosperous she never failed to enter with the same welcome sympathy. "Deserving all praise, she needs none." Such a life came to a beautiful ending, when she bade her friends "good night" with words of pleasant anticipation for "tomorrow," and ten within an hour passed while asleep to "the rest that remained for the people of God."
WALTER H. CAMBRIDGE.
Southborough, Mass., Oct. 3, 1898.
[Mrs. Hall had been very feeble for a long time, but was nevertheless in her usual health until the Friday before her death, when she was injured by a fall, causing a shock to her system from which she could not rally.]
The Vermont Phœnix
Brattleboro, Vermont
Friday, 7 October 1898
page 10, column 3
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Hall of Grafton, a sister of Mrs. Bancroft, aged nearly 80 years, took place on Thursday. The family was laid in the family lot in the cemetery at Saxtons River.
The Vermont Phœnix
Brattleboro, Vermont
Friday, 30 September 1898
page 3, column 3
MRS. E. S. HALL.
The death of Mrs. Elizabeth S. Hall, which occurred on the evening of September 26, calls for more than passing notice of a remarkable woman. Mrs. Hall was for nearly 30 years postmistress at Grafton, although for some time the active duties have been given to her daughter. The keen interest in public affairs which characterized earlier years, however, she never lost, but was in her 80th year, so far as her health would permit, the same ready thinker and worker as ever. Living in this quiet town, and for long periods kept at home by her own illness or that of her family, Mrs. Hall's interests and sympathies were yet world-wide. With rare intellectual gifts, her mind had been cultivated by years of appreciative reading and rich thought. Endowed, too, with an unusually accurate and ready memory, and with rare facility of expression, it was not strange that those who met her only casually spoke afterward of her wonderfully interesting personality. But when one knew her as a friend, he realized that Mrs. Hall's spirit was as broad and richly gifted as her mind. One found her sympathy always so ready and so sure, her generosity so kind and so practical in expression, her interest in all that is good and beautiful so frankly expressed, her faith so confident, her courage so strong, that a visit to her always meant new inspiration for the duties of life and new appreciation of its opportunities.
Whoever came to her, whether the needy, the sorrowing or the discouraged, went away helped and comforted, and into the happiness of your than the joy of the prosperous she never failed to enter with the same welcome sympathy. "Deserving all praise, she needs none." Such a life came to a beautiful ending, when she bade her friends "good night" with words of pleasant anticipation for "tomorrow," and ten within an hour passed while asleep to "the rest that remained for the people of God."
WALTER H. CAMBRIDGE.
Southborough, Mass., Oct. 3, 1898.
[Mrs. Hall had been very feeble for a long time, but was nevertheless in her usual health until the Friday before her death, when she was injured by a fall, causing a shock to her system from which she could not rally.]
The Vermont Phœnix
Brattleboro, Vermont
Friday, 7 October 1898
page 10, column 3
The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Hall of Grafton, a sister of Mrs. Bancroft, aged nearly 80 years, took place on Thursday. The family was laid in the family lot in the cemetery at Saxtons River.
The Vermont Phœnix
Brattleboro, Vermont
Friday, 30 September 1898
page 3, column 3
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