Mrs. Content Spicer, widow of the late Mr. Joseph Spicer, of Hopkinton City, R. I., died on Monday evening, Dec. 19th, at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. Henry Whipple, in Westerly, aged 90 years, 4 months and 10 days. She was a daughter of the Senior Mr. George Potter, of Potter Hill, and among her sisters and brothers, all of whom preceded her to the grave, were Mrs. Nancy Maxson, wife of the late Jonathan Maxson, of Westerly; Mrs. Mary Rogers, wife of the late Dea. David Rogers, of Waterford, Conn.; Mrs. Sally Fenner Irish, wife of the late Mr. George Irish, of Hopkinton; Dea. George Potter, of Little Genesee, N. Y.; Mr. Charles Potter, of Adams Centre, N. Y., and Mr. Benjamin Potter, of Hopkinton.
When a girl of some seventeen years, she made a profession of religion and joined the First Seventh day Baptist church, in Hopkinton, from which church her membership was transferred at the time of the organization of the Second Hopkinton Church, of which she became a constituent member. When about twenty years of age she was married to Mr. Joseph Spicer, of Hopkinton City, with whom
she lived nearly sixty years, until his death in 1876; since which time she has been always a welcome member or visitor in the families of her children.
Her only daughter who attained mature years, was the late Mrs. Mary Whipple, of Westerly, who died some four years ago. Another of her children, Mr. William Spicer, of West Hallock, Ill., died some six years ago. Her children now living are Charles and Albert H. Spicer, of Westerly, George H. Spicer, of Hopkinton City, Edward D. Spicer, of Adams, N. Y., Noyes Spicer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., J. Denison Spicer, of Plainfield, N. J., and John G. Spicer, of West Hallock, Ill. She also left surviving her 23 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren, and 4 great-great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Spicer filled worthily, for a long period, an important place in a family widely known and greatly respected in Rhode Island, and in other states as well. It may properly be said of her, that she died of old age. She had known very little of actual sickness. Early in the morning of her last day on earth, she had some difficulty about breathing, which was soon relieved, and she passed the day quite comfortably in her usual avocation of knitting. The difficulty returned in the evening, and after a brief time, without a struggle or a groan, she ceased to breathe. G. B. U.
