I just got back from the Ashland library where I checked the 1892 bound volume of the Plymouth Record.

Plymouth Record Vol 7 # 1 page 5:
Plymouth N.H. Saturday, December 24, 1892
Death of Landlord Piper
James William Piper, died at his home on South Main St, Saturday afternoon last, aged about 52 years.
Mr. Piper was a well known business man in the vacinity. some ten years since he opened a meat and provision market in this place, in which business he continued until his death. About four years ago he purchased the Plymouth House and continued it as a hotel and boarding house until his decease.
Funeral Services were held in the Methodist Church, Tuesday afternoon, and was attended by a large number of sympathizing friends.
The remains were escorted to the church by Olive Branch Lodge of F.&A.M., of which body he was an worthy member and the masconic burial rites were performed after the funeral service delivered by Rev. D. E. Miller.
Interment took place in Trinity Cemetery. All the stores and shops in the village were closed during the funeral exercises, thus showing the high esteem and worth by which the deceased was held by the business men of the place.
Mr. Piper was a man whom everyone respected. Honest and upright in all his dealings, he gained a host of friends throughout the community and long will the name of "Billy Piper" as he was familiarly called, be remembered by all who once knew him.
He leaves a wife and adopted daughter, Katie, to mourn their great loss
page 6
Card of Thanks - To the many friends both far and near, who has, either by kind words or loving acts expressed their sympathy during the last sickness and death of my beloved husband, and to these untiring efforts have never been found wanting in administering comfort to the bereaved family, we wish through the columns of the Record to express our heartfelt thanks assuring you one and all, that the blessings recieved will not go uncherished in our hearts
Mrs. James William Piper
and Family