Hutchinson, Caroline Elizabeth (Goddard) 1837 – 1899

HUTCHINSON, GODDARD, KNAPP

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:45

Source: Decorah Republican July 27, 1899 P 2 C 2

THE REAPER’S WORK.
MRS. E. D. HUTCHINSON.
On last Monday afternoon, July 24th, after a lingering illness from A pulmonary trouble, at the home of her brother, Clark N. Goddard, in this city, Mrs. Edwin B. Hutchinson passed into her final rest in the sixty-third year of her age.
Caroline Elizabeth Goddard was born In Rutland, Vt., May 30th, 1837, and came to Iowa with her parents in 1854, finding a home at Monona. In 1856 she married Dr. Hutchinson and continued her residence at Monona until 1862 when the formation of the firm of Goddard, Henry & Hutchinson called them to Decorah. Here they lived for upwards of twenty years until duty indicated that Chicago was to be her home for the remainder of her years. There she took up a labor of love for an only daughter, a duty that was transferred only two years later to a motherless infant granddaughter.
It is a sweet but painful pleasure to one who knew her intimately during all the years she lived in Decorah to testify with unqualified reserve that the was ever the beloved sister in a family of four brothers, the model wife, the gentle mother, the faithful friend, and in the fullest sense a noble Christian woman. In every relation she bore to her home, her relatives, her church, and to every interest she espoused, she was faithful to the uttermost. Nature favored her with a sweet voice and much musical talent, which was cultivated in the old-fashioned New England singing school methods to a degree that made her efficient, and the service she rendered during her mature years to the church of her choice was a delight to herself as well as all her associates.
Her only son, Lew Hutchinson, her granddaughter, Miss Louise Knapp, to whom she was all a mother could be for fourteen years, besides three brothers, survive her and mourn her loss, but in the sincere faith that she has only gone on before to a mansion for those like her who have been faithful to the Master in this life.
The disease to which she became a victim made its insidious appearance in the winter of 1897-8, and was passed over as an obstinate attack of the grip which would yield with time and warmer weather. In the fall of last year she paid her brother's home a good long visit, and there was great rejoicing last Thanksgiving day over the family reunion of all the brothers with this little sister, the youngest of their flock. Little thought they that the next similar gathering would be only a few months distant, and around the bier of her whom these brothers loved so well. Even then friends began to fear the difficulty was so deep that recovery might never take place. During the winter fears became graver, and arrangements was made by her brother Clark for a trip to Colorado in the spring, if her strength permitted. A location was selected, quarters secured, and she came to Decorah on route; but it was to be for no longer a journey, Here the weeks slipped by in peace and quietude, with everything done that could be to allay her pain and make pleasant the last weeks and months, until the last great summons should come.
Yesterday afternoon her remains were deposited in our city of the dead where rest those of her husband and daughter, Rev. M Willett officiating, and Messrs. Cadwell, Weiser, Grow, Bailey, Riley and Vance acting as pall bearers.

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