The Painesville Telegraph dated 12 Sept 1894 page 3
Mrs. Harriet Wilder Axtell was born at Barkhamsted, Connecticut, February 14th, 1819. She was married to Mr. W. P. Carter on the 10th of December, 1839. In 1847, she removed to Painesville. Three of the four children to whom she gave birth died young, her only remaining child, a son, also dying a few years ago. Her first husband, Mr. Carter, dying in 1854, four years later she was married to Mr. A. P. Axtell. They lived in Perry the greater part of their married life, until the sudden death of Mr. Axtell in 1882. Since the death of Mr. Axtell, excepting the nearly three years spent in California with the widow of her son and grandchildren, she has lived in Painesville, where here death occurred last Saturday afternoon, September 1st.
Her life of three quarters of a century has been an uneventful one, as we are accustomed to reckon existence here, though it has experienced a large share of life's afflictions, trials and disappointments.
Mrs. Axtell was possessed of a retiring, sensitive nature and of a refinement which was noticeable in all the occupations of her life and she exemplified in all she did many of the cardinal virtues and qualities of a noble soul. She exemplified the characteristics of fidelity, devotion, industry and precision to all her activities. She was possessed of an aesthetic taste that revealed itself in her handiwork, and a precise and painstaking disposition that showed itself in the management of the common household duties. She had a realizing sense of her personal responsibilities and was ever ready to minister to the needs of others.
For about forty-seven years she was a member of the First Church Congregational, at the services of which she was a regular and interested attendant so long as her health permitted and in the activities of which she was glad to have a share. She was undemonstrative in her nature and submissive in her oft-repeated afflictions. And, full of years and with a large experience of the supporting hand of God, she has passed on to be with her Lord and the dear ones gone before. To her it was "Christ to live" and therefore "gain to die."
Mrs. Harriet Wilder Axtell was born at Barkhamsted, Connecticut, February 14th, 1819. She was married to Mr. W. P. Carter on the 10th of December, 1839. In 1847, she removed to Painesville. Three of the four children to whom she gave birth died young, her only remaining child, a son, also dying a few years ago. Her first husband, Mr. Carter, dying in 1854, four years later she was married to Mr. A. P. Axtell. They lived in Perry the greater part of their married life, until the sudden death of Mr. Axtell in 1882. Since the death of Mr. Axtell, excepting the nearly three years spent in California with the widow of her son and grandchildren, she has lived in Painesville, where here death occurred last Saturday afternoon, September 1st.
Her life of three quarters of a century has been an uneventful one, as we are accustomed to reckon existence here, though it has experienced a large share of life's afflictions, trials and disappointments.
Mrs. Axtell was possessed of a retiring, sensitive nature and of a refinement which was noticeable in all the occupations of her life and she exemplified in all she did many of the cardinal virtues and qualities of a noble soul. She exemplified the characteristics of fidelity, devotion, industry and precision to all her activities. She was possessed of an aesthetic taste that revealed itself in her handiwork, and a precise and painstaking disposition that showed itself in the management of the common household duties. She had a realizing sense of her personal responsibilities and was ever ready to minister to the needs of others.
For about forty-seven years she was a member of the First Church Congregational, at the services of which she was a regular and interested attendant so long as her health permitted and in the activities of which she was glad to have a share. She was undemonstrative in her nature and submissive in her oft-repeated afflictions. And, full of years and with a large experience of the supporting hand of God, she has passed on to be with her Lord and the dear ones gone before. To her it was "Christ to live" and therefore "gain to die."
The Painesville Telegraph dated 12 Sept 1894 page 3
Mrs. Harriet Wilder Axtell was born at Barkhamsted, Connecticut, February 14th, 1819. She was married to Mr. W. P. Carter on the 10th of December, 1839. In 1847, she removed to Painesville. Three of the four children to whom she gave birth died young, her only remaining child, a son, also dying a few years ago. Her first husband, Mr. Carter, dying in 1854, four years later she was married to Mr. A. P. Axtell. They lived in Perry the greater part of their married life, until the sudden death of Mr. Axtell in 1882. Since the death of Mr. Axtell, excepting the nearly three years spent in California with the widow of her son and grandchildren, she has lived in Painesville, where here death occurred last Saturday afternoon, September 1st.
Her life of three quarters of a century has been an uneventful one, as we are accustomed to reckon existence here, though it has experienced a large share of life's afflictions, trials and disappointments.
Mrs. Axtell was possessed of a retiring, sensitive nature and of a refinement which was noticeable in all the occupations of her life and she exemplified in all she did many of the cardinal virtues and qualities of a noble soul. She exemplified the characteristics of fidelity, devotion, industry and precision to all her activities. She was possessed of an aesthetic taste that revealed itself in her handiwork, and a precise and painstaking disposition that showed itself in the management of the common household duties. She had a realizing sense of her personal responsibilities and was ever ready to minister to the needs of others.
For about forty-seven years she was a member of the First Church Congregational, at the services of which she was a regular and interested attendant so long as her health permitted and in the activities of which she was glad to have a share. She was undemonstrative in her nature and submissive in her oft-repeated afflictions. And, full of years and with a large experience of the supporting hand of God, she has passed on to be with her Lord and the dear ones gone before. To her it was "Christ to live" and therefore "gain to die."
Mrs. Harriet Wilder Axtell was born at Barkhamsted, Connecticut, February 14th, 1819. She was married to Mr. W. P. Carter on the 10th of December, 1839. In 1847, she removed to Painesville. Three of the four children to whom she gave birth died young, her only remaining child, a son, also dying a few years ago. Her first husband, Mr. Carter, dying in 1854, four years later she was married to Mr. A. P. Axtell. They lived in Perry the greater part of their married life, until the sudden death of Mr. Axtell in 1882. Since the death of Mr. Axtell, excepting the nearly three years spent in California with the widow of her son and grandchildren, she has lived in Painesville, where here death occurred last Saturday afternoon, September 1st.
Her life of three quarters of a century has been an uneventful one, as we are accustomed to reckon existence here, though it has experienced a large share of life's afflictions, trials and disappointments.
Mrs. Axtell was possessed of a retiring, sensitive nature and of a refinement which was noticeable in all the occupations of her life and she exemplified in all she did many of the cardinal virtues and qualities of a noble soul. She exemplified the characteristics of fidelity, devotion, industry and precision to all her activities. She was possessed of an aesthetic taste that revealed itself in her handiwork, and a precise and painstaking disposition that showed itself in the management of the common household duties. She had a realizing sense of her personal responsibilities and was ever ready to minister to the needs of others.
For about forty-seven years she was a member of the First Church Congregational, at the services of which she was a regular and interested attendant so long as her health permitted and in the activities of which she was glad to have a share. She was undemonstrative in her nature and submissive in her oft-repeated afflictions. And, full of years and with a large experience of the supporting hand of God, she has passed on to be with her Lord and the dear ones gone before. To her it was "Christ to live" and therefore "gain to die."
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Wm. P. Carter/1814-1854/Harriet W. C. Axtell/1819-1894/Mary/1841-(NE)/Jane Eliza/1846-1847/Frances Eliza/1849-1852/Daughters of W. P. & H. W. Carter + H.W.C.A. (footstone)
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