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Daughter of Henry Stichter and Susan Yetter Stichter.
Mrs. Chas Fulton (wife #1)
Note: Name also appears as Hermonie Stichter Fulton in the obituary for her daughter, Susan Fulton Welty. Could be a transcription error in the obituary as the headstone reads "Herminie Stichter Fulton". May also have been known as "Minnie" to some in her family.
The following are transcriptions by this contributor of the several stories about the death and funeral arrangements as found in microfilmed issues of the Fairfield Daily Ledger at the Fairfield Public Library.
They are listed in chronological order:
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Fairfield Daily Ledger
Thursday June 11, 1925
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Daughter of Henry Stichter and Susan Yetter Stichter.
Mrs. Chas Fulton (wife #1)
Note: Name also appears as Hermonie Stichter Fulton in the obituary for her daughter, Susan Fulton Welty. Could be a transcription error in the obituary as the headstone reads "Herminie Stichter Fulton". May also have been known as "Minnie" to some in her family.
The following are transcriptions by this contributor of the several stories about the death and funeral arrangements as found in microfilmed issues of the Fairfield Daily Ledger at the Fairfield Public Library.
They are listed in chronological order:
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Fairfield Daily Ledger
Thursday June 11, 1925
Pg. 1 Col. 3
MRS. C. J. FULTON DIED LAST NIGHT
End Came In Rochester Hospital After A Futile Surgical Operation
Mrs. C. J. Fulton died yesterday evening at 6:15 oclock in St. Mary's hospital, Rochester, Minn., where she was rushed three weeks ago for an emergency surgical operation which, when she finally was able to go through with, proved unavailing.
Word of her death came this morning, the message having been delayed through some misunderstandings.
Word was received this afternoon from Senator Fulton that he will start home tonight with his wife's body and that they probably will arrive here tomorrow at 1:27 p.m.
A telegram from O. B. Stichter, Mrs. Fulton's brother, from Norfolk, Va., says that he will arrive Saturday. Word has not yet been received from Mrs. Clifford Crail, a daughter, in Los Angeles, nor from Charles Fulton, a son in St. Paul. It is probable that the latter will join his father en route.
A letter from Senator Fulton to Dr. J. Fred Clarke yesterday said that the end was drawing near and Dr. Clarke immediately got in touch with Miss Susan Fulton, a daughter, who, cheered by a previous letter into the belief that her mother was gaining, had driven with Mr. and Mrs. Don C. Lewis to Macomb, Ill., to visit Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fulton. She was advised to go at once to Rochester but upon wiring her father, received a message suggesting that she come home instead. She arrived here early this morning.
Mrs. Fulton underwent an operation for cancer fear years ago at the Mayos (sic) and made a complete recovery, it was thought. She was in good health and spirits until May 15 when after a few days of feeling bad, she called in to the doctor, who at once realized the seriousness of the situation. She and Senator Fulton started in two days for Rochester where, after a thorough examination by the clinic staff, she was put under observation, with her little hope extended.
Mrs. Fulton left her beautiful home on South Main street right in midst of a profusion of blooming flowers among which she had worked with delight for years and which this year had reached their perfection. Always she was planning for more beauty, reveling in the color and fragrance of the hundreds of blossoms. This year there were more that ever and a fountain and a lily pond had been added to the landscape.
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Fairfield Daily Ledger
Friday June 12, 1925
Pg. 1 Col. 5
FULTON FUNERAL PARTY DELAYED
Floods In Northern Part of the State Causes Rail Washout This Morning
Senator C. J. Fulton, coming from Rochester, Minn., with the body of his wife, has been held up by a rail washout on the Chicago-Great Western road, and probably will not arrive until sometime tomorrow, according to a message from him at Alta Vista to W. G. Ross just before noon today.
This delay postpones all plans for the funeral, but it is thought that services probably will be held Sunday. Mrs. Clifford Crail of Los Angeles, a daughter, will arrive sometime Sunday morning. O. B. Stichter, a brother of Mrs. Fultoon, will arrive Saturday. Roy Stichter, another brother of Marshal, Minn., will be here, and it is thought that Charles Fulton, the son, either is with his father en route, or has wired the Senator direct of his plans to come.
Herminie Stichter was born in Washington, Iowa, June 27, 1867, the daughter of Henry and Susan Yetter Stichter. She attended the grade schools and the Washington Academy. After she was graduated from the academy, she attended the State University of Iowa, but did not complete her course, as her mother lost her sight and she was called home. From that time until her marriage she taught in the Washington public schools, first in the grades and then in the High school. She always loved the little children best, and so after a period in the High school went back to kindergarten work again. Sometimes she had as many as eighty in her school room and she was devoted to them all. She was a member of the Presbyterian church of Washington, and a good worker in its activities, although she never affiliated with the church in Fairfield. She was married to Charles J. Fulton on December 14, 1898. Her son Charles was born at their home in Fairfield in 1900, a daughter Catherine, in 1901, and another daughter, Susan in 1905. Charles is now a government chemist in Minneapolis, and Catherin the wife of Clifford Crail of Los Angeles.
Mrs. Fulton, before her marriage, was a contributor to several prominent Middle western magazines, and seemed to have a promising career as a writer ahead of her. She gave up her career for her family, but had only recently begun again to write some of her fine prose and poetry. She was a member of the Iowa Press and Authors Club.
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Fairfield Daily Ledger
Saturday June 13, 1925
Pg. 1 Col. 2
FULTON FUNERAL TOMORROW 3 P.M.
Body Arrived at Noon Today, After a 24-Hour Delay By Rail Washouts
Funeral services for Mrs. C. J. Fulton wife of State Senator Fulton, will be held at the family residence 805 South Main street tomorrow afternoon at 3 oclock. The service will be in charge of Dr. W. E. Parsons of Parsons college and interment will be at Evergreen cemetery.
The funeral party arrived here at noon today after a 24 hour delay on account of rail washouts in northern Iowa. Mrs. Fulton died at Rochester, Minn., Wednesday night where she had gone May 17 for treatment.
The body was accompanied by Senator Fulton who had been with his wife all through her illness and Charles Fulton, a son, who went directly to Rochester when he was advised of his mother's death. Mrs. Clifford Crail, a daughter, will arrive here from Los Angeles early tomorrow morning and O. B. Stichter of Albany, N.Y. of Albany, N.Y., and Roy Stichter of Marshall, Minn., brothers of Mrs. Fulton, will arive (sic) sometime today or tonight.
The funeral party was caught between two washouts at Alta Vista, one a quarter of a mile behind and one two miles ahead. The tracks had been repaired twice already and had gone out again.
Mrs. Fulton did not suffer at the last, her going being calm and peaceful. She was aware of her fate and made nearly all the arrangements for the funeral, all of which are being carefully followed out.
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Fairfield Daily Ledger
Monday June 15, 1925
Pg. 1 Col. 5 & 6
MRS. C.J. FULTON IS LAID TO REST
Services At the Home Yesterday With Tribute By W. G. Ross
Mrs. C. J. Fulton, who died last Wednesday evening in St. Mary's hospital, Rochester, Minn., was laid to rest in Evergreen cemetery here yesterday afternoon after simple services which she had outlined herself, at the family home, 805 South Main street.
The services were held at 3 oclock and the storm which had been as black as night an hour before, had passed and the day was clear again.
There was a profusion of flowers, sent by sorrowing friends, and the hoe was filled with those come to pay their tribute.
The service began with the playing of Medelssohn's "Consolation" by Prof. J. P. Moorhead, followed by Scripture reading and prayer by Dr. W. E. Parsons. Miss (sic. microfilm image not clear - either J.E. or J.B.) Starr then sang "No Night There," and W. G. Ross, long an intimate friend of the family, delivered a feeling tribute. The service closed with Chopin's Funeral March, played by Prof. Moorhead.
Six young women, members of the Campfire to which Mrs. Clifford Crail the older daughter, belonged, acted as honorary pallbearers. They were: Misses Louise Lamson, Pauline Stevenson, Eloise Smith, Virginia McKenzie, Margaret Simmons and Kathleen Workman. The active pallbearers wer" R. B. Louden, Col. W. G. Heaton, J. Wilbur Dole, Charles H. Heer, Dr. E. C. Bock and Prof. Charles Carter.
Mr. Ross' tribute follows:
Mr. Ross Tribute
The papers have given in detail the events of Mrs. Fulton's life. My acquaintance with her began a short time before her marriage in 1898. By reason of my close friendship with her husband from our college days, it seems I have known her much longer than a quarter of a century.
The people here are her friends and I can tell you nothing new, and we pay pause and make note of our great loss though we cannot yet realize its full measure. She is gone with life's work well done, but to human eyes and apprehension not yet all done. Death found her in a field of usefulness, in which she was busy about many things up to the full limit of her strength, possibly beyond her limit; ministering to her mother in her old age who rightfully relied upon her with unalloyed confidence. A good wife, thoughtful for her husband, a devoted mother, living her own life again with energy and enthusiasm in the lives of her children, a loyal friend seeking to add to the enjoyment of her friends, and to the enjoyment of all who came in contact with her, rejoicing in her home, the center of her abundant hospitality, and in its beautiful surroundings never more attractive than when her eyes beheld them for the last time. Occupied she was,with the uneventful diligences of woman, a diligence, however which makes a home and separates it from a mere habitation, a diligence that builds and maintains civillization.
Life Was Full
She was taken away when yet life was full of abounding interests. Her energies were unabated, and there was no slackening of her mental activily (sic). The world was still unfolding, and it was a wondrous world, and more multiform than ancient Proteus. At times her imagination played with Pan. The Midsummer Night's Dream is poetry, and it was poetry for her, but all those things external that contribute to the ancient beauty and lightsomeness and elusiveness continued for her, and contributed to her joy in the passing days, and added to the pleasure of her friends.
Of a high order of intellect the things of the mind appealed to her. She enjoyed the trees and the flowers and the green sward. She enjoyed books, the great books greatly. She was an artist in words and had written acceptably for magazines and newspapers. Anything original attracted her. A new note, a new author was always welcome. In a troubled world one as wide awake as she, must granple (sic) in mind at least with the critical problems, and she did. She knew the issues and the current comments, and as a multitude of serious minded are doing, she sought a way out. She would have borne her part of the sadness of the world and of its age old agony and struggles.
The Eternal Question
I cannot think there was any premonition in her turning to the ancient question "If a man die shall he live again?" Of assured faith herself, her open mindedness made welcome any effort, or any shadow of reality that would carry us further into the unknown, or gave promise of such advance.
The statement was made in her presence that thousands of us would be martyrs if we knew just where the call lay to martyrdom. She said that was true, and that there lay the heart of the problem for us today.
She had a great capacity for friendship and her friends are legion. She did not spare herself in their service. Her friendships were always in repair through her countless actsof grace and thoughtfulness, sincere and genuine.
Deepening Friendships
For a moment may I be permitted to speak in a more personal way for some of us. Her marriage brought her into a company here that had grown through the years, congenial minds, interested in literature, in life and its problems in nature its beauty and interpretations and given to the discussion of many themes and topics in a broader way and with a more serious attention than beseems ordinary conversation. At once she became a part of this company and bore her full part and contributed to its enjoyment and to its continuance with the shifting of membership that was inevitable through the years. Friendships deepened with flight of time and aside from her own family and relatives, nowhere will she be more greatly missed, none will mourn her going than this circle of friends, bound by the ties of congenial association, of mutual regard and helpfulness and the memory of a thousand happy hours passed together in our homes and with other friends and in the beauty spots of our own country. |
