Mrs. Bethiah (Avery) Ware seems to have been a woman of superior character. We are able to giva the following obituary notice of her from the pen of Rev. Josiah Fisher:—

“Died in Hawley, Mass., at the house of Rev. Moses Miller, Dec. 2nd, 1843, Mrs. Bethiah Avery Ware, aged 95. Her remains were removed to Heath where her husband, the late Dr. Samuel Ware, lies interred.

The tendency often manifested without discrimination to eulogize the dead has led me to feel deep solicitude lest I should transgress the bounds of propriety when called in circumstances like the present to speak of those who are gone. But there are reasons in the present case which forbid my being silent as to the character of the departed. She tarried among us a representative of a by-gone generation. She was in full vigor of womanhood when our Nation was born. More than three times 800,000.000 of human beings have made their entry upon life’s stage, have acted their several and checkered parts and have made their exit since this veteran pilgrim became a sojourner upon earth. She was the descendant of Dr. William Avery, who came to this country from England in the year 1650 and settled in Dedharn. He brought with him three children whose baptisms are found recorded in the town of Bark ham, near Oakingham, a market town in Berkshire County, England. Our departed friend was born on Jan. 26, 1749, and was devoted in infancy to a covenant keeping God in the ordinance of baptism and was educated for His service according to the high and ennobling principles of our Pllgrim Fathers. God, who is ever mindful of his covenant, visited her by His renewing Spirit while yet in the morning of life, and though she did not at first make a public profession of her faith, yet this important duty was not neglected when she obtained clearer views of christian obligation.