In Charlestown, Aug. 9th, 1870, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Bailie Hoxie, while on a visit there, Mr. Edward S. Wells, aged 77 years and 8 months. Bro. Wells had been a resident of Hopkinton City for nearly forty years, and was endeared to all by his kind, genial, social, and Christian spirit. In loving everybody he was beloved by everybody, being equally a cheerful companion of children, youth, and old age. Few if any exceeded him in his love of music, always enlivening the social circle with his voil, and the choir of the church with his bass-viol. The break of every day, on every Fourth of July morn, was saluted with the beat of his drum. His pious devotion to his wife, deceased some eleven years since, was weekly expressed by visiting her grave, every First-day morning, to hold communion with her unseen spirit. But he has now rejoined her in heaven, and is doubtless a member of the grand orchestra of the spirit world. The First-day Baptist Church of which he was a member, will miss him in his choral songs, and the community will long cherish with sweet and pleasant memories his truly honored and Christian name. "Mark the perfect man," was the text from which the writer preached at his funeral.
S. S. G.
