MORRISONVILLE - Emeline Lavina Smith, wife of R.H. Emery, died at her home in Morrisonville, Clinton Co., N. Y., June 11, 1894, after a protracted and painful illness from bronchial trouble, at the age of 55 years.
She was born in the town of Schuyler Falls, Clinton Co., N. Y., where she has made her home nearly all her life. She was the eldest of two daughters of Allen B. and Charlotte Smith. The mother, subsequently, late in her widowhood, because the wife of Leander Cadwell, a lumber manufacturer of Redford, N. Y., and Emeline, as a stepdaughter in his home, became a favored inmate an indispensable help and accountant in his extensive lumber business for several years.
At the age of 18 years, she was united in marriage to R. H. Emery, a native of Vermont, to whom she leaves a legacy of holy memories, of devotions, indefatigable patience, inexpressible tenderness, and exemplifying a Christian character of positive integrity, and the grand possibilities of affectional companionship and true motherhood.
At the age of 14 years, with her youthful friend with whom she subsequently united in marriage, she was baptized with him into the M. E. church, when the present edifice in Morrisonville stood on its original location on Beckwith St., where she was a communicant, and continued a devoted, loving and faithful member until July 20, 1887. During a period of decadence and subsidence, she, with her husband, withdrew from the society and with her only surviving daughter, united with the M. E. church in Plattsburgh, where her connection has remained until her death.
On the morning before she passed out from our midst, she looked out upon the early rays of sunlight streaming through the over-hanging foliage, and said "How beautiful!" repeating the doxology and raising her hands in ecstatic joyous prospect, exclaimed, "As the heart panteth after the water-brooks, so my heart panteth after Thee O God!" and thus she gave up her life, fraught with Christian experience so replete in amplitude so harmoniously ended.
She had been an invalid for many years, under the care of Dr. J. P. Bidwell, whose skill and careful treatment had carried her through many seasons of prostration, and during her last illness, when tired nature seemed to have become exhausted and the debilitated body reduced beyond recovery, her attending physician, in conjunction with the efficient service of Dr. Samuel Haynes of Saranac, contributed much towards rendering her comfortable during her last days, or until the "Angel" came and loosed the silver cord and the golden bowl was broken, letting down the shadows which darken the present lives of the sorrowing husband and daughter, testing their souls' energies in their loneliness, and by faith to find shelter in the cleft of the "Rock of Ages," and view the pearly portals left a little wider open, and behold a new star to light them Heavenward.
Her funeral was held June 13th, officiated by Rev. I. C. Fenton in an eminent manner, before a large number of friends present, and a choir of young men, formerly members of her Sunday School class, who had often during her illness gathered in front of her residence and sung for her benefit, rendered at the service and at the grave, appropriate selections from her favorite hymns.
The funeral was conducted by Benj. F. Sanborn and E. H. Hayes in a quiet and impressive manner, and she was buried from her late residence in the West Plattsburgh Union Cemetery under the shadow of the Emery monument amid a group of seven mounds, whose tablets mark the resting places of all her deceased children, ranging in age from three months to sixteen years, who have preceded her. Edith Grace, the only surviving child, next in age to the youngest of two sons and six daughters, is nineteen years old. She was married Feb. 22, last, to J. Ralph Baker, an estimable and energetic young man of 22 years, the eldest son of W. H. Baker, of Morrisonville. They will remain at the home of the surviving parent.
The Plattsburgh Sentinel, June 22, 1894
She was born in the town of Schuyler Falls, Clinton Co., N. Y., where she has made her home nearly all her life. She was the eldest of two daughters of Allen B. and Charlotte Smith. The mother, subsequently, late in her widowhood, because the wife of Leander Cadwell, a lumber manufacturer of Redford, N. Y., and Emeline, as a stepdaughter in his home, became a favored inmate an indispensable help and accountant in his extensive lumber business for several years.
At the age of 18 years, she was united in marriage to R. H. Emery, a native of Vermont, to whom she leaves a legacy of holy memories, of devotions, indefatigable patience, inexpressible tenderness, and exemplifying a Christian character of positive integrity, and the grand possibilities of affectional companionship and true motherhood.
At the age of 14 years, with her youthful friend with whom she subsequently united in marriage, she was baptized with him into the M. E. church, when the present edifice in Morrisonville stood on its original location on Beckwith St., where she was a communicant, and continued a devoted, loving and faithful member until July 20, 1887. During a period of decadence and subsidence, she, with her husband, withdrew from the society and with her only surviving daughter, united with the M. E. church in Plattsburgh, where her connection has remained until her death.
On the morning before she passed out from our midst, she looked out upon the early rays of sunlight streaming through the over-hanging foliage, and said "How beautiful!" repeating the doxology and raising her hands in ecstatic joyous prospect, exclaimed, "As the heart panteth after the water-brooks, so my heart panteth after Thee O God!" and thus she gave up her life, fraught with Christian experience so replete in amplitude so harmoniously ended.
She had been an invalid for many years, under the care of Dr. J. P. Bidwell, whose skill and careful treatment had carried her through many seasons of prostration, and during her last illness, when tired nature seemed to have become exhausted and the debilitated body reduced beyond recovery, her attending physician, in conjunction with the efficient service of Dr. Samuel Haynes of Saranac, contributed much towards rendering her comfortable during her last days, or until the "Angel" came and loosed the silver cord and the golden bowl was broken, letting down the shadows which darken the present lives of the sorrowing husband and daughter, testing their souls' energies in their loneliness, and by faith to find shelter in the cleft of the "Rock of Ages," and view the pearly portals left a little wider open, and behold a new star to light them Heavenward.
Her funeral was held June 13th, officiated by Rev. I. C. Fenton in an eminent manner, before a large number of friends present, and a choir of young men, formerly members of her Sunday School class, who had often during her illness gathered in front of her residence and sung for her benefit, rendered at the service and at the grave, appropriate selections from her favorite hymns.
The funeral was conducted by Benj. F. Sanborn and E. H. Hayes in a quiet and impressive manner, and she was buried from her late residence in the West Plattsburgh Union Cemetery under the shadow of the Emery monument amid a group of seven mounds, whose tablets mark the resting places of all her deceased children, ranging in age from three months to sixteen years, who have preceded her. Edith Grace, the only surviving child, next in age to the youngest of two sons and six daughters, is nineteen years old. She was married Feb. 22, last, to J. Ralph Baker, an estimable and energetic young man of 22 years, the eldest son of W. H. Baker, of Morrisonville. They will remain at the home of the surviving parent.
The Plattsburgh Sentinel, June 22, 1894
MORRISONVILLE - Emeline Lavina Smith, wife of R.H. Emery, died at her home in Morrisonville, Clinton Co., N. Y., June 11, 1894, after a protracted and painful illness from bronchial trouble, at the age of 55 years.
She was born in the town of Schuyler Falls, Clinton Co., N. Y., where she has made her home nearly all her life. She was the eldest of two daughters of Allen B. and Charlotte Smith. The mother, subsequently, late in her widowhood, because the wife of Leander Cadwell, a lumber manufacturer of Redford, N. Y., and Emeline, as a stepdaughter in his home, became a favored inmate an indispensable help and accountant in his extensive lumber business for several years.
At the age of 18 years, she was united in marriage to R. H. Emery, a native of Vermont, to whom she leaves a legacy of holy memories, of devotions, indefatigable patience, inexpressible tenderness, and exemplifying a Christian character of positive integrity, and the grand possibilities of affectional companionship and true motherhood.
At the age of 14 years, with her youthful friend with whom she subsequently united in marriage, she was baptized with him into the M. E. church, when the present edifice in Morrisonville stood on its original location on Beckwith St., where she was a communicant, and continued a devoted, loving and faithful member until July 20, 1887. During a period of decadence and subsidence, she, with her husband, withdrew from the society and with her only surviving daughter, united with the M. E. church in Plattsburgh, where her connection has remained until her death.
On the morning before she passed out from our midst, she looked out upon the early rays of sunlight streaming through the over-hanging foliage, and said "How beautiful!" repeating the doxology and raising her hands in ecstatic joyous prospect, exclaimed, "As the heart panteth after the water-brooks, so my heart panteth after Thee O God!" and thus she gave up her life, fraught with Christian experience so replete in amplitude so harmoniously ended.
She had been an invalid for many years, under the care of Dr. J. P. Bidwell, whose skill and careful treatment had carried her through many seasons of prostration, and during her last illness, when tired nature seemed to have become exhausted and the debilitated body reduced beyond recovery, her attending physician, in conjunction with the efficient service of Dr. Samuel Haynes of Saranac, contributed much towards rendering her comfortable during her last days, or until the "Angel" came and loosed the silver cord and the golden bowl was broken, letting down the shadows which darken the present lives of the sorrowing husband and daughter, testing their souls' energies in their loneliness, and by faith to find shelter in the cleft of the "Rock of Ages," and view the pearly portals left a little wider open, and behold a new star to light them Heavenward.
Her funeral was held June 13th, officiated by Rev. I. C. Fenton in an eminent manner, before a large number of friends present, and a choir of young men, formerly members of her Sunday School class, who had often during her illness gathered in front of her residence and sung for her benefit, rendered at the service and at the grave, appropriate selections from her favorite hymns.
The funeral was conducted by Benj. F. Sanborn and E. H. Hayes in a quiet and impressive manner, and she was buried from her late residence in the West Plattsburgh Union Cemetery under the shadow of the Emery monument amid a group of seven mounds, whose tablets mark the resting places of all her deceased children, ranging in age from three months to sixteen years, who have preceded her. Edith Grace, the only surviving child, next in age to the youngest of two sons and six daughters, is nineteen years old. She was married Feb. 22, last, to J. Ralph Baker, an estimable and energetic young man of 22 years, the eldest son of W. H. Baker, of Morrisonville. They will remain at the home of the surviving parent.
The Plattsburgh Sentinel, June 22, 1894
She was born in the town of Schuyler Falls, Clinton Co., N. Y., where she has made her home nearly all her life. She was the eldest of two daughters of Allen B. and Charlotte Smith. The mother, subsequently, late in her widowhood, because the wife of Leander Cadwell, a lumber manufacturer of Redford, N. Y., and Emeline, as a stepdaughter in his home, became a favored inmate an indispensable help and accountant in his extensive lumber business for several years.
At the age of 18 years, she was united in marriage to R. H. Emery, a native of Vermont, to whom she leaves a legacy of holy memories, of devotions, indefatigable patience, inexpressible tenderness, and exemplifying a Christian character of positive integrity, and the grand possibilities of affectional companionship and true motherhood.
At the age of 14 years, with her youthful friend with whom she subsequently united in marriage, she was baptized with him into the M. E. church, when the present edifice in Morrisonville stood on its original location on Beckwith St., where she was a communicant, and continued a devoted, loving and faithful member until July 20, 1887. During a period of decadence and subsidence, she, with her husband, withdrew from the society and with her only surviving daughter, united with the M. E. church in Plattsburgh, where her connection has remained until her death.
On the morning before she passed out from our midst, she looked out upon the early rays of sunlight streaming through the over-hanging foliage, and said "How beautiful!" repeating the doxology and raising her hands in ecstatic joyous prospect, exclaimed, "As the heart panteth after the water-brooks, so my heart panteth after Thee O God!" and thus she gave up her life, fraught with Christian experience so replete in amplitude so harmoniously ended.
She had been an invalid for many years, under the care of Dr. J. P. Bidwell, whose skill and careful treatment had carried her through many seasons of prostration, and during her last illness, when tired nature seemed to have become exhausted and the debilitated body reduced beyond recovery, her attending physician, in conjunction with the efficient service of Dr. Samuel Haynes of Saranac, contributed much towards rendering her comfortable during her last days, or until the "Angel" came and loosed the silver cord and the golden bowl was broken, letting down the shadows which darken the present lives of the sorrowing husband and daughter, testing their souls' energies in their loneliness, and by faith to find shelter in the cleft of the "Rock of Ages," and view the pearly portals left a little wider open, and behold a new star to light them Heavenward.
Her funeral was held June 13th, officiated by Rev. I. C. Fenton in an eminent manner, before a large number of friends present, and a choir of young men, formerly members of her Sunday School class, who had often during her illness gathered in front of her residence and sung for her benefit, rendered at the service and at the grave, appropriate selections from her favorite hymns.
The funeral was conducted by Benj. F. Sanborn and E. H. Hayes in a quiet and impressive manner, and she was buried from her late residence in the West Plattsburgh Union Cemetery under the shadow of the Emery monument amid a group of seven mounds, whose tablets mark the resting places of all her deceased children, ranging in age from three months to sixteen years, who have preceded her. Edith Grace, the only surviving child, next in age to the youngest of two sons and six daughters, is nineteen years old. She was married Feb. 22, last, to J. Ralph Baker, an estimable and energetic young man of 22 years, the eldest son of W. H. Baker, of Morrisonville. They will remain at the home of the surviving parent.
The Plattsburgh Sentinel, June 22, 1894
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"As the hart (sic) panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God."
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