Mrs. Alma Spaulding
Lexington. The venerable Mrs. Alma Spaulding recently attained the age of 79 years. Mrs. Spaulding, whose maiden name was Beverstock, was born in Vermont, among whose historic vernal hills she passed her girlhood days and later she lived in Lowell, Mass., and knew Gen. B.F. Butler, deceased, when he was a young barrister without brief or fame. For 42 years Mrs. Spaulding has given prestige to Lexington's social circles by her cultured presence. She taught school here in the correspondent's juvenile days and he has felt the impress of her wisdom, but never the impress of her rod. The correspondent was, the lady says, one of her good little boys and he regrets that he has not practiced the virtues which she so kindly inculcated in him. Time has not dimmed the bright radiance of her intellect and as a member of the Ladies' Literary Club her productions show that she possesses the bright perceptions, the happy flow of spirits of her pristine days.
From The Mansfield Semi-Weekly News, December 20, 1898