JENNIE MERRIAM TUTTLE

   At the family home, No. 35 Lexington avenue, Auburn, N. Y., Jennie B. Merriam, wife of Theodore F. Tuttle, breathed her last at 6:45 p. m. Tuesday, February 4, 1919.

   Deceased was born in Smithville, Chenango county, N. Y., September 4, 1844, the ninth child of Samuel and Betsey Barnes Merriam.  Eight of these children grew to manhood and womanhood.

   She was educated in the district school and Oxford Academy, and began teaching in her home town.  She taught one year in what is now know as District No. 5 in McDonough.  Later she taught at Chenango Forks where she met Theodore F. Tuttle, who she married in 1874.  They began housekeeping in Lisle, N. Y., he worked at his trade of harness making and she started in the millinery business.

   Soon they moved to Auburn where she conducted one of the leading millinery stores in the city until about 1889 when on account of illness she retired from the mercantile business..  As a teacher she was good in presenting subject matter also in discipline.  She was fond of and a friend to children and rarely failed to gain their friendship in return; this trait of character remained with her to the last.  Naturally she was an artist and though never specially educated in the art, left many fine drawings and paintings of her own handiwork as proofs of her ability.

   She was a believer in, and an honored member of several fraternities.  Among which were, The Colonel Kennedy Circle and the Seward-Crocker Post, Auxiliaries of the G. A. R. organization in Auburn.  A member of the "Parent's Teachers Association" and the "Womans' Union."

   A faithful wife, an indulgent mother and a kind neighbor and friend, has faithfully and well performed life's tasks for more than three score year and ten and painlessly and peacefully entered into rest.

   She will be missed in many places beside the home circle.  She was the last living member of the third generation of a once numerous Merriam family in Chenango county, and leaves to mourn her loss, her husband who has had a position in the City Hall of Auburn for over twenty years, an only son Arthur S. Tuttle, Supt. of the Syracuse Division of Warren Oil Co., two nieces, Martha J. Lane of Syracuse and DeEtte E. Merriam of McDonough, also three nephews Geo. B. Merriam, a druggist of Palm Beach, Fla., Burr J. Merriam, Supt. of Schools, North Adams, Mass. and Albert B. Merriam of McDonough.

   The body was brought to the Merriam home in McDonough on Thursday.  Funeral services were held at the house on Friday afternoon, Rev. M. H. Stoddard officiating.  Burial was made in the family lot in Evergreen cemetery.      A. B. M.