202 NATURAL HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF GROTON, MASS. 



appears in the issue of the same newspaper (p. 5), De- 

 cember 9, 1908. 



Mr. Samuel Augustus Shattuck died suddenly at Groton, on 



Monday, Sept. 4. He was an only son of Luther and Polly Prescott 



(Sawtell) Shattuck, and was born on Oct. 27, 1825. A native of 



Groton and a life-long resident, he was well known throughout the 



neighborhood, and no one in the town had a higher reputation for 



integrity and honesty and for all the virtues which make up Christian 



character. He was brought up on a farm and always followed the 



calling of a farmer. He might have held any office in the gift of his 



neighbors, but his innate modesty was such that he could never be 



induced to accept a public position. His mission, which he fulfilled 



completely, was to serve as a conspicuous example of that silent 



influence which actions rather than words exert on the life of 



friends and others. The words of Tennyson might well be applied 



to him : 



Kind hearts are more than coronets, 



And simple faith than Norman blood. 



Mrs. Sarah Parker Shattuck died, after a long and painful illness, 

 at Groton, on Tuesday [December 8j. She was a native of that 

 town, where she was born on January 2, 1831, and where her family 

 had lived for many generations. She was a distant kinswoman of her 

 husband, and before her marriage they both bore the same family 

 name. Mrs. Shattuck was an active member of the Congregational 

 Church and was connected with various social and religious organi- 

 zations in her neighborhood. She will be greatly missed in the town, 

 where her counsels, often needed and always freely given, were so 

 helpful. Her husband died three years previously, and she leaves 

 no children. 



