Androscoggin County ME Archives Biographies.....Roberts, Annie J. 
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Author: Everett S. Stackpole

   MRS. ANNIE J. ROBERTS, wife of Alfred Roberts, was the youngest daughter of
Josiah Fitz, late of Lynn, Mass. After twenty-eight years of peaceful, happy
married life she passed away 13 May 1898 at Los Angeles, Cal. Her portrait is
presented as an offering of love in tribute to the memory of one whose womanly
virtues were recognized by all who knew her. She was a type of those
self-forgetful persons who ordinarily are not found on the pages of history, who
lose themselves as a living sacrifice to the happiness and welfare of others,
and thus find the truest value of life. Such realize more pleasure in having an
attractive, cheerful, restful home, than monarchs do in founding and extending a
kingdom. Their conquests are those of love. Their acquisitions are such as
belong to highest character. Modesty, gentleness, sympathy, charity, patience,
purity, surely these are more valuable than the riches acquired by scheming
industry, more honorable than high political station, more lasting than all
other gains. The possession of such qualities of the heart found a great hope of
a still happier and nobler state of existence, since no real loss can ever come
to a good person. Made perfect through the physical sufferings of her last years
she died as peacefully as she had lived.

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Part of Chapter IX.
A FEW OUT OF MANY

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF DURHAM, MAINE
WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE.

PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF TOWN.

LEWISTON: PRESS OF LEWISTON JOURNAL COMPANY. 
1899.


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