At Walterville, Lane Co., Ore., Oct. 10, 1901, after a lingering illness, Mrs. Esther Elnora Main Post, aged 65 years, 10 months, and 7 days.
She was born in Allegany County, New York, the daughter of Prentice and Hannah Burdick Main. Quite early in life she began school teaching, often saying she believed it to be missionary work on her part. Her teaching was performed in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Oregon, about sixty-five terms in all. When about twenty years old she embraced religion, and her life was always consistent with her profession. While living in Nebraska she was married to Ashabel G. Post, who survives her. She had no children of her own, but faithfully and lovingly performed a mother's duty to the children of her husband by a former wife. She always regarded the Sabbath of the Lord as sacred, and when the death angel came to welcome her to the heavenly home a smile told that it was well with her. She leaves three sisters and two brothers to mourn their loss, which to her is everlasting gain. S. L. R. M.
