Obituaries (March 9)

Adaline P. Sawyer

Northern Christian Advocate, February 6, 1850

Adaline P. Sawyer died of congestion of the brain, in Starkey, Yates Co., N.Y., Oct. 9, 1849, aged 20 years.  Our departed sister was converted to God when but nine years of age, and from that early period to her last sickness, lived a consistent and exemplary life.  Her death was sudden and unexpected.  She was looking forward to a life of happiness and usefulness, but was attacked by disease, which, in the short space of five days, hurried her to the tomb.  Her parents, sisters, and numerous friends, deeply deplore her loss; but they sorrow not as those which have no hope, for their loss is her eternal gain.   T.S.

Rachel (Hines) Smith

Northern Christian Advocate, February 6, 1850

Mrs. Rachel Smith, of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], died in McDonough, Chenango Co., Dec. 22, 1849, aged 85 years.  The deceased was the daughter of Mr. Enoch Hines, and was born in Woodbridge, Conn., 1764, was married to Jehiel Smith, deceased, in 1783.  With her companion, who was engaged in the revolutionary war, she endured the complicated trials incident in that memorable period.  In 1812, she emigrated, with her husband, to Coventry, where for many years she exhibited the virtues of the Christian character, and adorned the Presbyterian Church at Colesville, of which, for a lengthened period, she was a valuable member, until she laid aside mortality.  Having a great desire to visit the family of her deceased son, Mr. Chauncey Smith, of this place, she arrived here, somewhat enfeebled by her journey, grew worse, so as to be unable to return, and in one week after her arrival, left her chair in the family circle, laid her down upon the bed on which, six weeks previously, her son resigned his life, and in the course of an hour, was found in the stillness of death.  "Many fall as sudden, not as safe."   E.W. Breckenridge, McDonough, Jan. 25, 1850

Emily Smith

Northern Christian Advocate, February 6, 1850

Emily Smith, consort of Br. John Smith, died in DeKalb, St. Lawrence Co., N.Y., Dec. 14, 1849, in the 62d year of her age.  Sister Smith was one of six, who, about thirty-five years since, united to form the first Methodist class in the town of DeKalb.  Since that time she continued a worthy member of the Church until her death.  Her last sickness was brief but painful.  In her death we were furnished with another example of the power of religion to triumph in the "jaws of mortality."  Sister Smith entered triumphantly upon her eternal state.  Her numerous surviving friends deeply deplore their loss, but they "mourn not as those who have no hope."  P.N.C.

Georgiana Lucas Stow

Northern Christian Advocate, February 6, 1850

Georgiana Lucas, only daughter of R.P. and A.E. Stow, died in Auburn, N.Y. [Cayuga Co.], on the 26th inst., of the congestion of the brain, aged 10 years.

Death Notices

Chenango Union, December 16, 1875

CLOSE:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 9, 1875, Mr. Rawson Close, aged 53 years.

VAN VLEET:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 10, 1875, Mrs. Anna VanVleet, aged 55 years.

HALL:  In Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 9, 1875, Mr. Warren Hall, aged 77, born in Stonington, Conn. March 14, 1798.  The fall of 1808 he moved to Pharsalia, about two miles east of the Centre Road where he resided three years, at that time the nearest neighbor lived three miles away.  He moved to the farm east of Norwich village in 1811 and lived there 64 years until his death.

ROGERS:  In Preston [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 9, 1875, Mr. Watson W. Rogers, aged 26 years.

BOLT:  In German [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 1, 1875, Orcelia [Bolt], wife of Merrick Bolt, 26 years.

REXFORD:  In Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY], Dec. 5, 1875, Mr. Allen Rexford, aged 84 years.