LIFE'S LONG JOURNEY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18171, 17 August 1922, Page 8

LIFE'S LONG JOURNEY.

MRS. H. COSSEYS FUNERAL, % DESCENDANTS NUMBER mMM The funeral of Mrs. Harriet Coreey, of '■s,■'§l Dray, whose death took place on Slonday in her 102 nd year, was held atf:CvW Dray, yettterday in the presence of a || la.rgu number of relatives and friends S. ■MMrs> Cosney was torn at Sherborne, <$m Dontot, England, on December 23, and arrived in New Zealand husland, Mr. William Cossey, in iW7.\; ; |:"';B Atftor. residing at Oaehunga for eoaa, - 1| years, thoy moved to Drury 70 years ago, || and Mrs, Coiwey has resided tb ere ever '■ 8 since. B'w hosband died and was boned? '■.'■ /-■■'' m thevo 38 'pmrtt ago, aged 8G y-sars.. .- $1 Atj, her di's&th Mrs. Cossey lould dam' 1| 129 deuctndaut?. These comprised joer m sons Call living, the eldeefc being 74-, : jsnd'"".■ -<tj|| two daughters, 31 gijtndchUdren,*' 37 .;C I great-grand<!Jb.ildren ? and fivo great-gmt , rl| graindchildnm,, Th« oldest ion, itr.. •'"'. || James Cosfsey, atill resident at I>raiy, v K was tlbe father of .13 of the 31 grscd.; ; h| ; children. ' " :' : - -';■ 1 \ "A worker all her days," was'th» ■".''•-■» .©pitpßid of. Mrs. C'ossey's life, «pj>M I by a gr(;at-niece. She has b«n «as 1 active wife of a settler on the fad■;s&■■■ M Drury, and after a century of<ia*rrnl 1 sedtice retained at. the end (if it fif? | - health* Ihergood spirits, -and r mfp«Rfc | : sion of all her facuHies. TJialwi * two gj months jjgo she was aWe to gab »)»» . -■'- 1 and did'a good dealyof sowing aM;'»idr";/•"-.'' : . | . ine wit'&pnt the assißtanc> of gJawefc'' • 1 |;- Few adventures seemed to have .«» | . turbed the passing of the years at Dtajf. ; i . In the sixties, however, cVinte the S)«ori y ! warti, and' Mrs. Cossey, with other women . from surrounding farms, Trent into Dra!?. || for the protection afforded by (ssneftl : jy Cameron's headquarters garrison of 3COO £ ! men stationed there. Fighting took plac* / | i during .the night, and the women w«sy |1 ~ given sanctuaryfein tho church erected cy |] Bishop Selwyn. Its timbiirs, curiously 1 [ enough, had been taken from 3 kauri | tree of 9ft. girth cut on Mr. Cossey'i | i farm- '■■■\. ; |