Wednesday, January 30, 1901, The Brookfield Courier:
ELLIOTT G. FITCH
Elliott Gillette Fitch, wearied with life’s long pilgrimage, laid down the cross on the morning of January 22d, and went to his heavenly reward. He had long felt the growing infirmities of age, but his strong mind and active body had bravely resisted. His illness was of little more than a week’s duration. One of his sons remarked during his illness that it was the first time he ever saw him sick in bed. The final disease was pneumonia and from the first it was evident that he could not recover. A trained nurse from Faxton Hospital, Utica, was in attendance. His children were with him, also his faithful wife, who had been his worthy companion for more than sixty-one years, and nothing that love could do for his comfort was spared. His mind was bright and clear to the last and when one spoke in his presence of the need that all be clothed in the robe of Christ’s righteousness and thus ready for death, he said, “I settled all those things long ago.” With wife and all his children around his bed, at half past one o’clock he peacefully fell asleep in Jesus. Mr. Fitch was born on Gorton Hill, May 4, 1817, being the son of Patten and Lois Babcock Fitch, sturdy farmer people of earnest Christian faith and was one of a family of eight children: Patten, James Madison, Elliott G., Julius O., Mrs. Warren Williams, Tacy Livermore, Lourinda Moore and Susannah Babcock, of whom one alone, James Madison, of Ionia, Michigan, survives. Mr. Fitch married Sabrina Brown, Oct. 13th, 1839, and settled the same year at North Brookfield, where he had a wagon shop and carried on a thriving business for many years, doing much to make the little hamlet the enterprising village it was until larger manufactories sprung up all over the country. In 1866 with his family he moved to Morrisville, where he resided till 1868, when he returned to the old home at North Brookfield, where all his life had been passed. Seven or eight years ago he built a house on the farm owned by his son-in-law, Lucius P. Burdick, 1 1/8 miles from the village of Brookfield, that he might be near his youngest daughter, and it was here that the end came. To Mr. and Mrs. Fitch four children were born: S. A. of Hamilton; L. S. of North Brookfield; Sarah, wife of Brownell Tompkins, of Morrisville; and LuElla, wife of Lucius P. Burdick, of Brookfield; seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren, all of whom are left to mourn his loss, this being the first time that death has invaded the family circle in the sixty-one years of wedded life. Early in life he was baptized by Rev. William Clarke and united with the Baptist church of North Brookfield, of which he has been a faithful and consistent member. He loved his Bible and nothing ever prevented his daily study of its pages. His was an unselfish life, thinking first of others and their happiness. One thought expressed by him a few days before his death, “I had rather suffer wrong than do wrong,” was exemplified in his pure blameless life. A genuine, kindly man, quiet and unassuming in manner, with a strong intellect and well balanced mind, he was accustomed to weigh matters for himself and do what was right in God’s sight. He always gave generous support to his church, to the missionary cause, and never turned a deaf ear to any need. A devoted husband and father, a true friend. To many beyond the family circle and the church he loved, the news of his departure will come as a personal sorrow. To the children and especially to his aged companion all hearts go out in tender sympathy, while we commend them to the God of all comfort and grace. Brief funeral services were held from his late residence, Thursday, Jan. 24, at eleven o’clock a. m., conducted by his life-long friend, Rev. J. M. Todd, of Brookfield, assisted by Rev. J. F. Smith of North Brookfield. A very large concourse of relatives, old friends and neighbors gathered to pay their tribute of love and regard for the deceased. The interment was made in Brookfield Rural Cemetery.
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ELLIOTT G. FITCH
Elliott Gillette Fitch, wearied with life’s long pilgrimage, laid down the cross on the morning of January 22d, and went to his heavenly reward. He had long felt the growing infirmities of age, but his strong mind and active body had bravely resisted. His illness was of little more than a week’s duration. One of his sons remarked during his illness that it was the first time he ever saw him sick in bed. The final disease was pneumonia and from the first it was evident that he could not recover. A trained nurse from Faxton Hospital, Utica, was in attendance. His children were with him, also his faithful wife, who had been his worthy companion for more than sixty-one years, and nothing that love could do for his comfort was spared. His mind was bright and clear to the last and when one spoke in his presence of the need that all be clothed in the robe of Christ’s righteousness and thus ready for death, he said, “I settled all those things long ago.” With wife and all his children around his bed, at half past one o’clock he peacefully fell asleep in Jesus. Mr. Fitch was born on Gorton Hill, May 4, 1817, being the son of Patten and Lois Babcock Fitch, sturdy farmer people of earnest Christian faith and was one of a family of eight children: Patten, James Madison, Elliott G., Julius O., Mrs. Warren Williams, Tacy Livermore, Lourinda Moore and Susannah Babcock, of whom one alone, James Madison, of Ionia, Michigan, survives. Mr. Fitch married Sabrina Brown, Oct. 13th, 1839, and settled the same year at North Brookfield, where he had a wagon shop and carried on a thriving business for many years, doing much to make the little hamlet the enterprising village it was until larger manufactories sprung up all over the country. In 1866 with his family he moved to Morrisville, where he resided till 1868, when he returned to the old home at North Brookfield, where all his life had been passed. Seven or eight years ago he built a house on the farm owned by his son-in-law, Lucius P. Burdick, 1 1/8 miles from the village of Brookfield, that he might be near his youngest daughter, and it was here that the end came. To Mr. and Mrs. Fitch four children were born: S. A. of Hamilton; L. S. of North Brookfield; Sarah, wife of Brownell Tompkins, of Morrisville; and LuElla, wife of Lucius P. Burdick, of Brookfield; seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren, all of whom are left to mourn his loss, this being the first time that death has invaded the family circle in the sixty-one years of wedded life. Early in life he was baptized by Rev. William Clarke and united with the Baptist church of North Brookfield, of which he has been a faithful and consistent member. He loved his Bible and nothing ever prevented his daily study of its pages. His was an unselfish life, thinking first of others and their happiness. One thought expressed by him a few days before his death, “I had rather suffer wrong than do wrong,” was exemplified in his pure blameless life. A genuine, kindly man, quiet and unassuming in manner, with a strong intellect and well balanced mind, he was accustomed to weigh matters for himself and do what was right in God’s sight. He always gave generous support to his church, to the missionary cause, and never turned a deaf ear to any need. A devoted husband and father, a true friend. To many beyond the family circle and the church he loved, the news of his departure will come as a personal sorrow. To the children and especially to his aged companion all hearts go out in tender sympathy, while we commend them to the God of all comfort and grace. Brief funeral services were held from his late residence, Thursday, Jan. 24, at eleven o’clock a. m., conducted by his life-long friend, Rev. J. M. Todd, of Brookfield, assisted by Rev. J. F. Smith of North Brookfield. A very large concourse of relatives, old friends and neighbors gathered to pay their tribute of love and regard for the deceased. The interment was made in Brookfield Rural Cemetery.
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Wednesday, January 30, 1901, The Brookfield Courier:
ELLIOTT G. FITCH
Elliott Gillette Fitch, wearied with life’s long pilgrimage, laid down the cross on the morning of January 22d, and went to his heavenly reward. He had long felt the growing infirmities of age, but his strong mind and active body had bravely resisted. His illness was of little more than a week’s duration. One of his sons remarked during his illness that it was the first time he ever saw him sick in bed. The final disease was pneumonia and from the first it was evident that he could not recover. A trained nurse from Faxton Hospital, Utica, was in attendance. His children were with him, also his faithful wife, who had been his worthy companion for more than sixty-one years, and nothing that love could do for his comfort was spared. His mind was bright and clear to the last and when one spoke in his presence of the need that all be clothed in the robe of Christ’s righteousness and thus ready for death, he said, “I settled all those things long ago.” With wife and all his children around his bed, at half past one o’clock he peacefully fell asleep in Jesus. Mr. Fitch was born on Gorton Hill, May 4, 1817, being the son of Patten and Lois Babcock Fitch, sturdy farmer people of earnest Christian faith and was one of a family of eight children: Patten, James Madison, Elliott G., Julius O., Mrs. Warren Williams, Tacy Livermore, Lourinda Moore and Susannah Babcock, of whom one alone, James Madison, of Ionia, Michigan, survives. Mr. Fitch married Sabrina Brown, Oct. 13th, 1839, and settled the same year at North Brookfield, where he had a wagon shop and carried on a thriving business for many years, doing much to make the little hamlet the enterprising village it was until larger manufactories sprung up all over the country. In 1866 with his family he moved to Morrisville, where he resided till 1868, when he returned to the old home at North Brookfield, where all his life had been passed. Seven or eight years ago he built a house on the farm owned by his son-in-law, Lucius P. Burdick, 1 1/8 miles from the village of Brookfield, that he might be near his youngest daughter, and it was here that the end came. To Mr. and Mrs. Fitch four children were born: S. A. of Hamilton; L. S. of North Brookfield; Sarah, wife of Brownell Tompkins, of Morrisville; and LuElla, wife of Lucius P. Burdick, of Brookfield; seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren, all of whom are left to mourn his loss, this being the first time that death has invaded the family circle in the sixty-one years of wedded life. Early in life he was baptized by Rev. William Clarke and united with the Baptist church of North Brookfield, of which he has been a faithful and consistent member. He loved his Bible and nothing ever prevented his daily study of its pages. His was an unselfish life, thinking first of others and their happiness. One thought expressed by him a few days before his death, “I had rather suffer wrong than do wrong,” was exemplified in his pure blameless life. A genuine, kindly man, quiet and unassuming in manner, with a strong intellect and well balanced mind, he was accustomed to weigh matters for himself and do what was right in God’s sight. He always gave generous support to his church, to the missionary cause, and never turned a deaf ear to any need. A devoted husband and father, a true friend. To many beyond the family circle and the church he loved, the news of his departure will come as a personal sorrow. To the children and especially to his aged companion all hearts go out in tender sympathy, while we commend them to the God of all comfort and grace. Brief funeral services were held from his late residence, Thursday, Jan. 24, at eleven o’clock a. m., conducted by his life-long friend, Rev. J. M. Todd, of Brookfield, assisted by Rev. J. F. Smith of North Brookfield. A very large concourse of relatives, old friends and neighbors gathered to pay their tribute of love and regard for the deceased. The interment was made in Brookfield Rural Cemetery.
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ELLIOTT G. FITCH
Elliott Gillette Fitch, wearied with life’s long pilgrimage, laid down the cross on the morning of January 22d, and went to his heavenly reward. He had long felt the growing infirmities of age, but his strong mind and active body had bravely resisted. His illness was of little more than a week’s duration. One of his sons remarked during his illness that it was the first time he ever saw him sick in bed. The final disease was pneumonia and from the first it was evident that he could not recover. A trained nurse from Faxton Hospital, Utica, was in attendance. His children were with him, also his faithful wife, who had been his worthy companion for more than sixty-one years, and nothing that love could do for his comfort was spared. His mind was bright and clear to the last and when one spoke in his presence of the need that all be clothed in the robe of Christ’s righteousness and thus ready for death, he said, “I settled all those things long ago.” With wife and all his children around his bed, at half past one o’clock he peacefully fell asleep in Jesus. Mr. Fitch was born on Gorton Hill, May 4, 1817, being the son of Patten and Lois Babcock Fitch, sturdy farmer people of earnest Christian faith and was one of a family of eight children: Patten, James Madison, Elliott G., Julius O., Mrs. Warren Williams, Tacy Livermore, Lourinda Moore and Susannah Babcock, of whom one alone, James Madison, of Ionia, Michigan, survives. Mr. Fitch married Sabrina Brown, Oct. 13th, 1839, and settled the same year at North Brookfield, where he had a wagon shop and carried on a thriving business for many years, doing much to make the little hamlet the enterprising village it was until larger manufactories sprung up all over the country. In 1866 with his family he moved to Morrisville, where he resided till 1868, when he returned to the old home at North Brookfield, where all his life had been passed. Seven or eight years ago he built a house on the farm owned by his son-in-law, Lucius P. Burdick, 1 1/8 miles from the village of Brookfield, that he might be near his youngest daughter, and it was here that the end came. To Mr. and Mrs. Fitch four children were born: S. A. of Hamilton; L. S. of North Brookfield; Sarah, wife of Brownell Tompkins, of Morrisville; and LuElla, wife of Lucius P. Burdick, of Brookfield; seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren, all of whom are left to mourn his loss, this being the first time that death has invaded the family circle in the sixty-one years of wedded life. Early in life he was baptized by Rev. William Clarke and united with the Baptist church of North Brookfield, of which he has been a faithful and consistent member. He loved his Bible and nothing ever prevented his daily study of its pages. His was an unselfish life, thinking first of others and their happiness. One thought expressed by him a few days before his death, “I had rather suffer wrong than do wrong,” was exemplified in his pure blameless life. A genuine, kindly man, quiet and unassuming in manner, with a strong intellect and well balanced mind, he was accustomed to weigh matters for himself and do what was right in God’s sight. He always gave generous support to his church, to the missionary cause, and never turned a deaf ear to any need. A devoted husband and father, a true friend. To many beyond the family circle and the church he loved, the news of his departure will come as a personal sorrow. To the children and especially to his aged companion all hearts go out in tender sympathy, while we commend them to the God of all comfort and grace. Brief funeral services were held from his late residence, Thursday, Jan. 24, at eleven o’clock a. m., conducted by his life-long friend, Rev. J. M. Todd, of Brookfield, assisted by Rev. J. F. Smith of North Brookfield. A very large concourse of relatives, old friends and neighbors gathered to pay their tribute of love and regard for the deceased. The interment was made in Brookfield Rural Cemetery.
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