“Miss Charlotte Louisa Ware, who breathed her last at the home of her nephew, No. 1572 Massachusetts avenue, on the eighth of December, 1903, in her eightysixth year, was one of the subscribers to the fund for the support of the kindergarten and a generous helper of various good causes. She was a woman of strong individuality, of high principles and of kind feelings. She came from a stalwart New England stock, and was noted for independence of character, public spirit, modesty of demeanor, sturdy common sense and a vigor of body and mind that laughed to scorn the psalmist’s limitation of human life to three score years and ten with all beyond this feebleness and misery. She brought to the performance of her duties an earnest purpose and a sincere desire to be of service to those in need of assistance. She died with—

Her heart and hand both open and both free:

For what she had she gave, what she thought she showed;

Yet gave she not till judgment giu’ded her bounty.”

Reference Data:

Report, Perkins School for the Blind, ..., 1904, page 191