Female

August 3, 1772

September 2, 1865

Litchfield, CT

Truman Marsh (October 22, 1799)

Mrs. Clarissa Marsh who was buried yesterday was born in this town on the 3d August 1772, consequently was in the 94th year of her age. With the exception of ten years in which she lived in New Milford, during the period of Mr. Marsh’s Rectorship of the Episcopal Church in that place, she has resided in this village and was the oldest inhabitant and member of the Church in th society which her husband had long been the head and pioneer, and to whose influence it is much indebted for its present commanding position in the diocese.
If he was its pastor, she was a noble mother to whose maternal counsels and nursing care it was much indebted for its beauty and development. She possessed good common sense united with sound discretion, mildness united with firmness, liberality without extravagance, ...the highest style of Christian character with the greatest humility. St. Michael’s Church has received many substantial marks of her liberality, the Episcopal parsonage was her gift, and every year she has contributed liberally to all the institutions of the church at large and the parish at home.
She has been aware (although until recently her sight was undimmed and her step still elastic.) that the period of her departure was nigh, and like some traveler whom midnight darkness had compelled to await the dawn of light, or who awaited the passing railway train to bear him away, so had she long waited to depart and join her departed friends in that land where sorrow and death are unknown.
Her memory will be ever fragrant, and the tears of widows and orphans will moisten the grave where repose her remains, till generations shall have passed away, and the inimitable patterns of a model wife, and one of the best patterns of female worth and loveliness and the most perfect of Earth’s daughters shall no longer be handed down in tradition in the memory of the oldest inhabitant.
Litchfield Enquirer, September 7, 1865

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Clarissa and her husband had seven children.