At Milton Junction, Wis., May 18, 1890, Amorilla C. Babcock, the oldest child of Dr. John and Catherine Collins, and the widow of Dr. Daniel Babcock.
She was born in Brookfield, N. Y., March 2, 1818. When three years old her parents moved to Alfred, N. Y., where they lived and died. At a very early age she was baptized into the First Seventh-day Baptist Church of Alfred, and has always been a Christian worker of uncommon devotion.
On June 1, 1843, she was married to Dr, Daniel Babcock, and about two weeks later accompanied him to his first settlement as a physician, in Johnstown, Wis. Afterward they were located in Christiana and Milton. In 1871 they went to California, where he died in 1875. In 1876 she returned to Milton with her only child, now Mrs. Dr. Maxson. For some months she was confined to her bed with a cancer, and wasted to a skeleton, which suffering she endured with rare patience and cheerfulness. Her funeral was held May 20th. Sermon by N. Wardner from 2 Cor. 4: 18. N. W.
