Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1885 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

(Herald and Presbyter.) CHILCOTE--At Rensselaer, Ind., on January 15 1885- after a five weeks Htruffgle with typhoid fever. Mrs. Lizzie Chilcote. wife of Mordecai F Chilcot? of the Indiana bar. Mrs. Chilzote was the youngest daughter of Na hanfel and Hannah Hammond, and sister ot Hon. A. .A, Hammond Governor of Indiana in 1860; Judge William Hammond of lowa, and Col. E. P. Hammond, late Judge ol the Supreme Court of Indiana. She was born In Brookville, Ind., March 1. 1842, and tn 1854 her father mured to Jasper County, It>d., locating northeast of Rensselaer. She wh< married September 27 »865. to Captain M. F. Chilcote, and ' io 1868 they removed to Rensselaer and established a comfortable home. She was the mother of two sons who survlv* her, and one daughter and four daughters of a deceased sister have for several years been members of her family,to wards whom in i’ll respects, she filled the place of a mother. In 1875 she became h member of the Presbyterian Church of Rensselaer, and always manifested a lively inters >t in its welfare. Amid all its deprivations and struggles she stood ready with counsel and aid to cheer and sustain the cause. She was always iu her place—rarely absent from public service. The day before she was taken sick she spent in church. Her homo was always open to ministers supplying the pulpit who found there a hospitable welcome and pleasant entertainment. Of a quiet and retired disposition, yet she was firm and decided in her convictions, and while undemonstrat ive, sbe was alwaysj prompt to respond to every call of duty. ’ With her benevclence mount beneficence. Her method of pitying the needy, the suffering and lhe sorrowful was to administer relief and sympathy, and comfort—to doit promptly, and yet so quietly that the left hand knew not what the right was doing. She esteemed it as much privilege as a duty to v sit the sick, to relieve the distressed, to comfo»t the sorrowing, and to supply the needy. He.r loss will be felt, not only by husband and children, and the aged mother whose home wat w’th this daughter;Jbut she will be missed in t'i« church, where her presence and influence was so minh needed: and i ■. society, where for years sbe had stood in the front rank in every good and charitable and Christian work. Still we have the consobuio that wbat'ls our loss is her gain, as she entered into rest. The following lesolution adopted by the Evening Star Chapter, is an evidence of the esteem in which she was held by her associates inrihe daily walks of life: Resolved, That in the death of our dear sister wo have lost a devoted and useful m-»mber, the church a devoted Christian, society a noble and geuerons woman, our bereaved brother a loving wife, her children a kind and affectionate mother; and, while we deplore our loss, we will strive to emulatejher many virtues. Though dead si e yet speakth, and says to the dear ones left behind “Be yo followers of me even as I also was of Christ Jesus, my Lord.”

GILBERT SMALL.