In Farina, Ill., Dec. 20th, 1876, of congestion of the lungs, Benjamin F. Potter, aged 64 years, 1 month, and 3 days. He was a resident of Alfred Centre, N. Y., some twenty-nine years, and moved from that place to this in the Spring of 1866. He made a profession of religion in early life, and joined the 1st church of Hopkinton, R. I., the only church of which he was ever a member. He was a social, intelligent, hard-working man. For the last two years, his health had been gradually failing him, and last Autumn he had a fever sickness, from the effects of which he never recovered, which induced the disease of which he died. It was evident for a few days before his death that the Divine Spirit was preparing him for his change. His last moments were spent in prayer. A wife who has been helpless for many years, is left to miss his strong arm; and pass her remaining years in loneliness; and two sons and a daughter to feel deeply their loss. O. U. W.
