The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-03-24
Obituary.


CLARA L. COLE was born in Richfeld, OF
sego Co., n. Y, August %, 179s, and died at
tic residence of her son, ]. W. Houghton, in
Wellington, Ohio, March Ia, 1881.
Her parents were natives of Providence,
Rhode Island. She was married at Barry,
Orleans Co., N. Y, to Asa Houghton. whose
home was at Batavia, and at once assumed
the care Of six motherless children, five OF
whom are yet living and came to see
her or assisted In nursing her in
her last sickness, and for whom she
always entertained tender maternal regard.
or her four children, two daughters died in
womanhood; one Is the wife Of W. W. Ross,
of Fremont. Her home in the last six years
was in the family Of her son, where both she
aud her husband died-the latter in Septem-
Der, 1875. They were married fifty years
ago, on the 23rd of March 1881. When
her husband was neal death he took
the hand of her who had served him SO
faithfully, and, with tenderness his children
will never forget, repeated the stanza in
which these lines occur:
I'VE have been long together.
"'Tis hard 20 part when friends are dear
Say nos good nishs & Sat in e some brighter cline
Five years of lonely waiting, and in that
mysterious country where no shadows come,
she has bid husband and children good
morning"
July16. 1915, while praying at home alone,
she was happily converted to God, and in the
autumn following her seventeenth birthday,
was baptized and united with the Methodist
Episcopal Church; and in the sixty-seven
years OF her religious experience no one ever
knew her to be anything but reverent and
heartily loyal to the faith and cause she had
espoused, committing temporal anxieties, as
well as spiritual things, to God. The Bible
was. In reality, to her "The Book Of Books"
and she read it so constantly that its teach
ings and promises became familiar part
OF her own thoughts-and were the natural
expression of her devotions. Sunday,
March 9th, q fortnight before her fu-
neral, she attended Quarterly Meeting
services, and greatly enjoyed the evil
deuces of religious awakening In our
midst During the nine days of her illness
she cxhorted believers to faithfulness, pray
ed for the impenitent, besought for herself
perfect fitness for the change that she was
fully persuaded awaited her, asking for
grace to endure and for patience to wait.
and through great suffering triumphed
gloriously.
This life, Of over four score years, was also
worthy Of imitation in Its uselfsh devotion
to the comfort of her household, its tireless
industry and the willingness and energy and
skill with which she wrought and served.
A pioneer mother, she keenly felt the con-
trast between the comfortable appointments
of the Eastern HON" and the new one in the
woods, but possessed the elements Of charac-
ter that evercame obstacles, made much of
little, thought nothing too trivial for pains.
taking, and practiced as che believed-that
what was worth doing at all was worth do
Ing we'll. She retained her faculties to q
remarkable degree, and though living nearly
eighty-three years, her hearing, memory, and
knowledge Of many practical things were
unimpaired up to the last day Of her life.
Funeral services were held at the residence
Sunday afternoon, March Goth, her pastor
Rev. N. 8. Albright basing his brief remarks
upon the passage selected by the deceased:
"All the days of my appointed time will /
wait till my change come"
..sorrow. misfortune pain and care
In quick succe sion throng our paths
Loved ones, once gathered round hearth,
Are seen, alas! no longer there"
NJ ii ii.