Lucy Jane Greene, only daughter of William B. and Caroline Clarke Greene, was born in the town of Independence, Allegany County, N. Y., March 16th, 1864, and died at the Samaritan Hospital, in Troy, N. Y., August 16, 1919.
She was baptized by Pastor I. L. Cottrell and united with the Independence Seventh Day Baptist Church, August, 1880. Lucy was then a cheerful, buoyant girl of sixteen and exerted a healthful, Christian influence over the young people and older ones for the better things in life. She was the first one of a company to put on Christ by baptism at Independence that in a few years numbered thirty-nine, and her life has been filled with helpful and loving service in the home, the church and the school, both in America and China, for more than a half century.
Comparatively few persons have had such an opportunity, or have taken it up so readily and willingly, in so many ways and places. After attending school at Alfred and teaching, she was married to Rev. G. H. Fitz Randolph, by Rev. Jared Kenyon, on her twentieth birthday, March 16, 1884. They commenced house-keeping in Alfred, N. Y., in the home built by her husband.
Sister Randolph shared with her husband in his undertakings; in his work in the seminary, in different fields and churches, Berlin, N. Y., at two different times, at Marlboro, N. J. Fouke, Ark., at Berea and other places; in his heavy struggle to build up the school at Fouke and in helping to furnish homes for the many needy people of the school. She made room for them in her own home and she, with her family, shared with them their comforts and necessities. With her husband she became guardian, practically, of four fatherless children, all of whom seem now to be in promising positions for obtaining an education, with a prospect of making a good record for themselves. In all these noble and heavy responsibilities she has borne a worthy part with her companion.
She leaves her husband and three sons: John, pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist Church at Nile, N. Y., and a member of the Alfred Theological Seminary; Wardner Titsworth, pastor of the Hartsville Seventh Day Baptist Church and a member of the Theological Seminary; and Winfield Wells, who recently returned from the army in France as first lieutenant, now a senior in Alfred University. William, the second son, died at the age of twenty-one, while in school at Alfred. A little daughter, Jennie, died in infancy while they were living at Marlboro, N. J.
The funeral services of our beloved sister were conducted at the home of E. O. Reynolds, in Alfred, by her former pastor, I. L. Cottrell, and interment was made in the family plot in Alfred Rural Cemetery.
I. L. C.
