???? spirit of "Grandma" Shaw ???? d it way heavenward as the passing night closed over a passing day, the portals of the Golden City swing wide to welcome her home to an eternity of rest and joy.

No one who lives as she lived the shadows of death hold no greater mystery than the physical darkness which surrounded her during the latter years of her life: though she saw not the light, she knew it was there, and where the eye did not pierce, a calm sure faith guided unerringly the confident, footsteps and made the transition from mortality to immortality a triumph, not a tragedy.

"Grandma" Shaw lived to a ripe old age surrounded by a family of children who had grown to an honorable and respected manhood and womanhood and when the hand of time drew the sable curtain at last, there was written upon its folds:

VICTORY

"I have fought a good fight,

I hare finished my course,

I have kept the faith."

In the presence of all her children, save one, Mrs. Shaw passed away last Monday evening, March 17, 1913, it about nine o'clock, in the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. O. Copple of Bancroft. While she has been feeble for years, her final illness was about ten days duration, due to old age, complicated with cancer. .

She was in her seventy-seventh year and was born in Montgomery N. Y., in 1836. Her maiden name was Sarah Brookstaven. In 1861 she was married to Mr. John S. Shaw at Middletown, N.Y. Nine years later they came to Cuming County, and lived on a farm near Bancroft until Mr. Shaw's some years later.

Of eleven children three proceeded her in death: ????

During the last twenty years she has been afflicted with blindness due to cataract.

Mrs. Shaw was a life-long Christian, with whom Christianity was an inner living principle, rather than a garment, an inseparable part of her every thought and action. Hers was the good old-fashioned religion of our fathers, which sustained martyrs and created saints. It kept her close to the cross and pointed to the strait and narrow way that leads past Gethsemane to the mount of the resurrection. It never failed to afford her comfort and sustenance.

She was faithful in attendance at public worship. The writer has seen her in the pew and though denied sight, her every sense absorbed each detail of the service. If the congregation joined in some familiar hymn, "Grandma" Shaw never failed to lift her voice and sing as only they can sing who have knelt at the cross and drank of the waters of comfort and consolation. Those who know her best will long remember her as a quiet and unassuming friend, a conscientious and charitable neighbor.

The funeral was held at the Baptist Church in Bancroft, Wednesday afternoon, and was largely attended by her old friends and sympathizing neighbors. Rev. Clark of the Presbyterian Church conducted the services and the body was laid to rest by the side of her husband in the Bancroft cemetery.

December 17, 1831 - April 2, 1905

John S. Shaw, an old soldier of the 124 N. Y. Vol., was born at Albany, N. Y., December 17, 1831. He died at the borne of his son, Charles, at Los Angeles, California Sunday night April 2, 1905, after an illness of twenty-two hours, passing peacefully away in a sinking spell.

At twenty-three years of age he located at Middletown, N. Y., where he met and married Sarah Brookstaven, coming West in the spring of 1874 and locating on the old home farm southeast of town. The marriage was blessed by the birth of eleven children, eight of whom survive him and attended the funeral. They are Mrs. Ruth Moss, Crawford, Colo.; Mrs. Anna Keil, Arlington, Nebraska; Chas. Shaw, Los Angeles, California; Mrs. Maggie Copple, Mrs. Sadie Easton, Harry N. Samuel and J. E. Shaw, who reside here, three children dying in infancy.

His loss is mourned by a loving wife who is blind and quite feeble and has for some time had to rely for sight and care upon him who never now what it was to neglect, in adversity, the one he had promised to love.

He was one on a ???? of twelve children. Aunt ??ar, the only one now living, has made her home with them of late years and cared for them as a mother for a child.

Deceased was of Scotch-Yankee decent, his grandmother being a niece of Sir Walter Scott. He was a Baptist by inheritance, being a descendent, on his mother's side, of Roger Williams. He was constant and devout in the worship of God and exemplified in every hour of every day of his life, the simple, loving life of his Savior.

As a last respect, all business was suspended in town during the funeral services, which were conducted at the ??????. Burial was at the Bancroft cemetery.