r6 A tribute, written by Charles Wilson of Kingfield, ME tohonor the passing of Fred's wife tells their story. "At thepassing of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth (Fuller) Weymouth on June 30,1950, in her 86th year, Franklin County has lost a characterfull flavored of the virtues of the elderly days, the days ofthe pioneer spirit, when Maine was undeveloped industrially, andmen and women stood squarely on their feet facing a life of toilwith axe and plow and spinning wheel, with no thought ofreliance upon anything but their own unremitting effort.She was born in Eustis Dec. 25, 1864 to Samuel Rutillus and Mary(Pike) Fuller, of a line descended from Mathue Fuller who wasborn in England in 1603 and settled in Plymouth in 1640,becoming in 1643 a sargent of the military company of theColony, commanded by Miles Standish. Embued with the pioneerspirit, the family had pushed north and south to the farthestfrontiers and in the time od Mrs. Weymouth's childhood the earlyways still prevail. She often told of how on the Eustis farmthey rarely had white bread, the usual custom being to take thewheat on horseback to be ground into unrefined grist, in NewPortland, and once in a very long time her father would ridehorse back to Augusta with sacks of wheat to have it ground intothe luxury of white flour.They set up farming in Freeman in the old homestead, In the 11thyear of their marriage, Fred died at the age of 38, and Mrs.Weymouth was left with five small children and a farm. It wasthen that her up-bringing as a pioneer came to her aid. Somehowwith cows and wood, and the yield of nature's bounty, cultivatedby the hoe and watered with the sweat of the brow, the familynot only struggled on, but grew in pride and strangth and wellbeing. Mrs. Weymouth had set but one rule that she laid downfirmly to the youngsters, "That if you behave as well as youlook, then good will come to you."There was food, there was work, and there was fun, but money wasa very scarce article. One year she asked the first selectmen toabate her taxes that year. He said no, he couldn't, that herchildren were all healthy and well dressed, she said that Godand the neighbors had been awfully good to her children, butthat she had just one cent of cash and that if the town wantedit they could have it. With the aid of Frank, the oldest boy,Mrs. Weymouth lived with the children twelve more years on thefarm, until they had pretty well grown, then she moved toKingfield where she lived the next 40 years. The Lord gave backto Elizabeth (Fuller) Weymouth what she had put into life. Shelived into her 86th year hale and hearty andi died with anuntroubled soul and a clear mind.