Mrs. Abbie Tower Hamlin died at her home in this village after a long and painful illness last week Thursday evening. Mrs. Hamlin was seventy-eight years of age and is survived by one son, Edward A., and six grandchildren. An only daughter died in young womanhood. The deceased also leaves a devoted group of sisters, those residing in Westford being Mrs. Frances B. Prescott, Mrs. John Burbeck and Mrs. Charles Pickering, and also a group of nieces and nephews, among the latter being Hon. Charles Sumner Hamlin, assistant secretary of the navy at Washington.
Mrs. Hamlin lived a long, busy, useful life and was loved and esteemed by a large circle of relatives and friends. The long weeks of helpless suffering that she was called upon to endure at the close of her life were a great trial to her self-sacrificing spirit, but she met them with great fortitude. She was a loving and devoted mother to her own children and to her grandchildren as circumstances required. For many years she, with her late husband, lived at Forge Village when the latter was station agent.
The funeral was held on Sunday at 12:30 from the Unitarian church and was largely attended by relatives and friends. Rev. Louis H. Buckshorn, a former pastor and relative in the family, conducted the service, paying beautiful and deserved tribute to the memory of the deceased. Mrs. Homer M. Seavey and Mrs. Cyril A. Blaney sang two beautiful selec-tions, "Lead, kindly light" and "Jesus, lover of my soul." The bearers were H. B. Prescott, O. R. Spalding, Fred Burbeck and Clarence Fisher. Undertakers in charge were David L. Greig & Son, and interment was in Fairview cemetery.
Mrs. Abbie Tower Hamlin died at her home in this village after a long and painful illness last week Thursday evening. Mrs. Hamlin was seventy-eight years of age and is survived by one son, Edward A., and six grandchildren. An only daughter died in young womanhood. The deceased also leaves a devoted group of sisters, those residing in Westford being Mrs. Frances B. Prescott, Mrs. John Burbeck and Mrs. Charles Pickering, and also a group of nieces and nephews, among the latter being Hon. Charles Sumner Hamlin, assistant secretary of the navy at Washington.
Mrs. Hamlin lived a long, busy, useful life and was loved and esteemed by a large circle of relatives and friends. The long weeks of helpless suffering that she was called upon to endure at the close of her life were a great trial to her self-sacrificing spirit, but she met them with great fortitude. She was a loving and devoted mother to her own children and to her grandchildren as circumstances required. For many years she, with her late husband, lived at Forge Village when the latter was station agent.
The funeral was held on Sunday at 12:30 from the Unitarian church and was largely attended by relatives and friends. Rev. Louis H. Buckshorn, a former pastor and relative in the family, conducted the service, paying beautiful and deserved tribute to the memory of the deceased. Mrs. Homer M. Seavey and Mrs. Cyril A. Blaney sang two beautiful selec-tions, "Lead, kindly light" and "Jesus, lover of my soul." The bearers were H. B. Prescott, O. R. Spalding, Fred Burbeck and Clarence Fisher. Undertakers in charge were David L. Greig & Son, and interment was in Fairview cemetery.
Family Members
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Amanda Tower Fisher
1834–1914
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Adeline Tower Burbeck
1838–1924
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Waldo Tower
1840–1841
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Amy Tower Clark
1842–1916
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Helen Tower Fletcher
1844–1889
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Albro Waldo Tower
1846–1848
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Frances Antoinette "Fanny" Tower Prescott
1848–1922
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Mary Lewella Tower Smith
1850–1910
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Emma Florence Tower Pickering
1851–1921
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Lilian Eva Tower
1853–1916
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