Mrs. Lucy L. Stillman Maxson, the daughter of Robert and Phylura Main Stillman, was born in DeRuyter, N. Y., June 8, 1841, and died at the County Home at Oskaloosa, Kan., December 5, 1922, aged 81 years, 5 months and 27 days.
When fifteen years of age, she moved with her parents to West Hallock, Ill., where she was baptized and joined the Seventh Day Baptist Church of that place. On November 22, 1862, she was married to Norman Maxson, who died about 1896.
They moved from West Hallock, Ill., to Farina, Ill., in 1866 and she removed her church membership to the Farina Seventh Day Baptist Church. After living fourteen years at Farina, they moved to Nortonville, Kan., and she united with the Nortonville Seventh Day Baptist Church of which church she remained a member until her death.
One sister, Mrs. Julia Barber, of Little Genesee, N. Y., two half-sisters, Delia Maxson, of Trumble, Neb., and Mrs. D. C. Coon, of Nortonville, Kan., and two daughters, Mrs. Addie M. Babcock, of Nortonville, Kan., and Minnie Maxson, of Oskaloosa, Kan., still survive her.
A short time before her death, she was heard saying, "Peace, peace, perfect peace." Just before she died, she said to her daughter Minnie, "Are you still a Seventh Day Baptist?" When told that she was, she replied, "So am I." This showed that in her closing moments, her thoughts were upon the things of God and her faith was lifting the shadows from the valley of death. The funeral services, conducted by her pastor, Herbert L. Cottrell, were held at the Seventh Day Baptist Church of Nortonville Wednesday afternoon, December 6, 1922, and the body was laid to rest in the Nortonville cemetery.
H. L. C.
