Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-04-12
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MERRILL.-In Milan, March 9th, 1866 Martin
Merrill aged q years.
He was taken i'll with fever through the month
of February but the strongest hopes were enter
tanned that his recovery would be speedy and COM
pete. These expectations however, were doomed
to disappointment He suffered much both in
mind and in body, du ring his illness, which as
sumed typhoid form, and became so insidious
and violent to resist the skill of the physicians
and terminate his life. Thus in comparative
youth, amid a circle of deeply attached friends,
and while his earthly promise was constantly
augmenting, was this esteemed young sud-
denly taden away Society feels the loss of an
eminent member, while the home circle mourn the
absence of beloved son and brother
c. E. FERGUSON.
LEWIS.-Aseended to the home of the immortals,
Ellen j. Lewis, youngest daughter of the late
Joseph Jenkins, OF LeRaysville, Pa.
She was born Oct. 10, 1884, and brought up in
Pike twp, where she has many friends, aud devel-
oped those amiable end intellectual qualities for
which she always beloved. few years ago
she left for Minnesota, where in an evil day she
married, since which time, amid ncessant toll and
labor, constant removals, and exposure, she con-
tracted that Ntal disease Consumption which ter
minated in the city of Hannibal, Mo, March o.
1866 in her doliyerauce. She leaves a beautiful
little girl Of four years of age to suffer for her de-
parture. Our sister arose to higher life gently
and peacefully, reclining in her chair an expert
ence which cannot be repeated, for there is no
pain in the spirit land and no death IN the homes
Of the angels.
Sister thou hast gone and left us,
Thou hast reached the farther shore,
Tears are dried and sorrows ended,
Sickness, fears and pains, no more
Tolls and sorrows now are over,
Thou hast reached the heavenly rest:
Hopes are reached and fears are ended.
Rest our sister-ever best.
Gentle, sweet, and kind and loving,
Trusting, true, tried, faithful, bland,
Join the song Of the immortals
In the peaceful Summer Land"
In Tory Yates county, at the res
dencC of her son, Mr.. Manchester Townsend. on
the 18th inst, Mrs. Hannah Townsend, wife of
the late Iiezehiah Townsend aged 100 years, !
month and "26 days.
Mrs Townsend was a native Of Sheshequin, Pa,
where she was born in l7GG, when the Thirteen
Colonies were subject to Great Britain. In 1888
settled near Milo Center where she has lived most
of the time since She was married in Pennsylva-
MIA, and her eldest was born in the year of their
emigration Some time after this, she took this
boy behind her on horseback and went to visit
her parents in Pa, and swan the Susquehanna
river with her horse and when she returned she
brought bag Of -four before her, and again swan
her horse across the same river Her husband
opened the first tavern ever kept in Western New
York, and lived here in the days of Jemma Viii
kinson's glory She was ever respected and be-
loved by her neighbors and associates Her de-
Scendants are quite numerous and respectable, |
and living in various towns in this section. She
was generally vigorous, healthy woman, and
never allowed herself to finch from any duty and
never knew how to say emit What changes she |
has seen! When she came here she went from
the head Of Seneca Lake near Dresden in a canoe /
and the Lake was then undisturbed by commerce /
no roads IN the country dense wildern ess all
over this now populous, rich and pleasant coun- |
Try. She was healthy to the last and died from /
sheer old age, having her senses to the last COM
planned of no pain but gradually sunk, and finally |
went out like taper burnt to its socket Her /
like will never be seen again among the females of /
yhis land. May her virtues be remembered and I
her memory long cherished. -Dta3dee Hec9,d
Wyalusing, March 30, Joel Stall
ford, aged 49 years and three months.