The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-16
NORTH HAVEN NOTES.


 Lyon-Impressive Remarks by Rev. Dr. II. M. Adams, Formerly of the First Church of New Haven.
 June 15.-The funeral service of Mrs, Eunice Smith Lyon, wife of Rev. c. W. Lyon of Bad Ridge, Brooklyn, N. Y., was held in the Congregational church on Monday. June IA, 1897, Five clergy men were seated on the platform, Rev William Lusk read selections of Scrip ture and Rev. Frederick Saunders of Ansonia offered prayer, which was ex- pressiVe of the beautiful life and hal lowed influence of the departed. Rev. Dr. B. M, Adams, D. D., of Greenwich, CCnn., who was an intimate friend of the family gave the address. He said:
 Tt Is a great satisfaction to find peo- pie in this world who live as the Bible says they should, who love God with all their heart, and their neighbor as themselves. They live the life of heav- en here below. They are the sort of women whose price Is above rubies MT Adams said he had been acqualnt- ed with this elect lady over thirty years years and yet felt unable to say any thing considered worthy of the one who had gone before. He felt that his true place would be with the mou9ners. His acquaintance went back to 1860 and 1861, when Mrs. Lyon had not been married but little while and he was impressed then with her active devo- tion and eminent common sense "She dedicated her life to the holy work of a pastors wife, and everywhere she went left her mark on souls. As a teacher, a preceptor, wife and moth CT, an adviser she demonstrated her heavenly birthright. She had faith in God. He was real to her She had faith in herself. She believed she had | possible of herself.
 ''She graduated from the Hudson riv- CT institute in 1859 and was at the head of her class, numbering thirteen. Dr. Flack. principal of the institute, said he had graduated 800 young ladies from | the various states of the union and judged her to be superior in mind and character to all of the others.
 "She was in a large sense g. mother Her hospitalities were wide. The or phan boys, the girls she started, the classes she taught-it was the instinct of motherliness.
 Her unselfish love, boundless chari- | ty, burning sympathy, heroic courage,
 {" Servant of God, we'll done,
 Thy glorious warfare past;
 The battles fought, the victory won, l And thou art crowned at last"
 Appropriate and impressive selections were rendered by the choir, closing with Jesus Saviour, Pilot Me"
 Miss Eunice Smith was born in Northford, June 12, 1885, and joined the Congregational church In that place at the age of sixteen years. After she graduated from the Claversack college in June 1859, she was preceptress in the Cooperstown seminary until she was married to the Rev MT. Lyon. May g. 1860. The first twelve years of their pastoral life was spent along the Hudson river at Washington Heights, Claversick, West Point and Malden-on- the Hudson in the New York confer ence, and in the spring of 1870 the Rev. MT. Lyon was transferred to the New York East conference and appointed at West Haven, Conn, and served in Mid- dlefield, Windsor Locks, Seymour, Tor l.ringtnn, Sirnsbury, Forestville, Conn.,, and Babylon and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, three years each.
 Mrs. Lyon was the mother of three sons, two of whom have come to man. hood and educated three orphan girls, who occupy honorable positions In so- ciety She was a very efficient aid as a minister's companion, abounding ir church work, doing good to the poor and sick and all who were in need of aid or sympathy.
 For the past three years Mrs. Lyon had been an invalid and about a month ago she came to the home of her broth CT Herbert P Smith, in North Haven where her useful life came to a close
 A large number of beautiful fora pieces were contributed by relatives and friends who had pleasant memo. rles of the departed. Relatives ant former parishioners were present from Newburg, Babylon, New York Brook. :. lyn, Windsor Locks, Forestville, Sey. mour, Orange, N. J., New Haven, Wes Haven and North Haven
 The burial was in the Center ceme. ? tery
 Everyone and every place her presence
 blest,
 Without her smile the day will brine | less cheer
 Her chief joy was in doing good, } And she smiled as she went OCT tn,
 dismal flood,
 Beyond which she will be at home