At the home of her brother, in Scott’s Mills, Ore., January 12, 1917, Almeda Maine Collins, in the eighty-fifth year of her age.
Almeda Maine was born in Allegany County, New York, May 6, 1832. She was the third daughter of Prentice C. and Hannah H. Maine. At the age of twenty-one she was married to Henry B. Collins, who died at Alden, Minn., in the year 1887.
She became a Christian in early life, uniting with the Seventh Day Baptist church and remained faithful until death called here to her heavenly home. She would sit for hours and read her Bible and sing psalms.
She leaves two brothers, -Edward, of Tillamook, Ore., and Silas, of Scott’s Mills, Ore. (with whom she has made her home for over two years past), and many near relatives to mourn this loss which is her gain. Almeda’s life had been one of usefulness. She taught school before and after marriage. She would always find something to do to benefit others if not herself. For several years she made a home for her youngest sister and son; and when she could do no more, often expressed a wish that she could do something for some poor, needy person. While she had no children of her own, she was kind and thoughtful of others’ children.
There being no Seventh Day Baptist minister here, services were conducted by Rev. Mr. Smith, of the M. E. church. S. M.
