. Memorial of Joseph and Lucy Clark Allen. (Northborough, Mass.) . drive to meet them in their sleighs on theoutskirts of the town, and escort them to theirhome; but the fine sleighing was spoiled by a thaw,which made any driving for pleasure quite out of thequestion. The sisters stayed a few weeks, enjoying heartilythe various festivities in honor of the newly marriedpair. Then came visits from our mothers sisterHarriet (afterwards wife of Rev. E. B. Hall), a lively,talented girl of seventeen, with the beautiful littlebrother Charles. Her letters at this time are full ofeagerness to have each
. Memorial of Joseph and Lucy Clark Allen. (Northborough, Mass.) . drive to meet them in their sleighs on theoutskirts of the town, and escort them to theirhome; but the fine sleighing was spoiled by a thaw,which made any driving for pleasure quite out of thequestion. The sisters stayed a few weeks, enjoying heartilythe various festivities in honor of the newly marriedpair. Then came visits from our mothers sisterHarriet (afterwards wife of Rev. E. B. Hall), a lively,talented girl of seventeen, with the beautiful littlebrother Charles. Her letters at this time are full ofeagerness to have each member of the home circlecome and see her in her new home. Within theyear, visits from father and mother, the elderbrothers, and the little sisters, as also from otherfriends, are recorded. The family was then enlargedby taking three little boys as pupils, and thus thefirst year indicated the variety which was to charac-terize the new home. Their marriage took place on the 3d of February,1818. We add in the following chapter a sketch ofour mothers earlier II. LUCY CLARK WARE. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also,and he praiseth her. OUR mother, Lucy Clark Ware, was born inHingham, June 6, 1791. Her father, HenryWare, had been settled as mmister over the OldChurch there in 1787. Here the family remaineduntil he was called to the Hollis Professorship ofDivinity in Harvard College in 1805, and the rest ofhis life was spent in Cambridge. His characteris-tics are well described in the following extracts froma letter of his son-in-law, the Rev. Dr. George Put-nam,* and from the Life of Rev. Samuel JosephMay : — From the Sketch by Dr. Putnam. My first meeting with Dr. Ware was on entering collegein 1822. He examined us in the Greek Testament. Hewished to look at our books, to see if they were inter-lined,— a precaution not taken by any other of the corpsof examiners. He took away the obnoxious volumes,mine among the number. He did it so mildly, so po
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