Margaret E. Maxson, widow of Silas Maxson, and daughter of the late Edward Whitford, died Dec. 6, 1888, aged 67 years, 11 months and 27 days. Ten days before her death she left home at Adams Centre, N. Y., for Alfred Centre, where she intended spending the winter with her daughter, Inez Maxson. She reached her destination safely and apparently in usual health but was soon prostrated with strangulated hernia from which death alone released her.
She was born in Berlin, N. Y., and was the youngest of twelve children, nine of whom reached maturity. Coming to Jefferson County with her parents at an early day, she very soon joined the Adams Church, of which she has been a member for fifty-two years. She had been teacher of a large Sabbath school class for over thirty years - for so many years and through so many changes that only two of the original members remain.
She was a woman of an exceptionally devotional nature and spiritual attainments, a woman of prayer in her family and in her church. She rarely ever met any one socially to whom she did not address words of Christian counsel. On the Sabbath before she left us, after the sermon, she arose and declared her love for Christ and her covenant brethren and sisters. She also embraced the members of her Sabbath school class and exhorted them to be faithful to Christ.
Two weeks from that day, from that church her funeral was attended by a very large and sympathetic audience. The entire church feel her death as a personal bereavement and therefore sympathize with the four remaining children. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." Rev. 14: 13.
Margaret E. Maxson, widow of Silas Maxson, and daughter of the late Edward Whitford, died Dec. 6, 1888, aged 67 years, 11 months and 27 days. Ten days before her death she left home at Adams Centre, N. Y., for Alfred Centre, where she intended spending the winter with her daughter, Inez Maxson. She reached her destination safely and apparently in usual health but was soon prostrated with strangulated hernia from which death alone released her.
She was born in Berlin, N. Y., and was the youngest of twelve children, nine of whom reached maturity. Coming to Jefferson County with her parents at an early day, she very soon joined the Adams Church, of which she has been a member for fifty-two years. She had been teacher of a large Sabbath school class for over thirty years - for so many years and through so many changes that only two of the original members remain.
She was a woman of an exceptionally devotional nature and spiritual attainments, a woman of prayer in her family and in her church. She rarely ever met any one socially to whom she did not address words of Christian counsel. On the Sabbath before she left us, after the sermon, she arose and declared her love for Christ and her covenant brethren and sisters. She also embraced the members of her Sabbath school class and exhorted them to be faithful to Christ.
Two weeks from that day, from that church her funeral was attended by a very large and sympathetic audience. The entire church feel her death as a personal bereavement and therefore sympathize with the four remaining children. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." Rev. 14: 13.
Family Members
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Betsey W Whitford Murray
1800–1878
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Mary Polly Whitford Greene
1802–1857
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Silas Whitford
1805–1805
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Prudence Whitford Hull
1806–1874
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Jushua Whitford
1808–1809
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Lois Maxon Whitford Coats
1810–1873
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Asa Maxson Whitford
1812–1886
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Phebe Whitford Greenman
1813–1873
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David Whitford
1815–1815
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Edward Wells Whitford
1815–1892
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Albert Sheldon Whitford
1818–1844
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