At the residence of her son, (Eld. Simeon Babcock,) in Salem township, Shelby Co., Ohio, January 2, 1854, Martha Smally, in her ninety-fourth year. She was the daughter of Wm. Davis, of Monmouth Co., N. J., and great-granddaughter of Wm. Davis, of Wales. She embraced religion at the age of sixteen years, and connected herself with the church at Squam. She was afterward married to Thomas Babcock, and in the year 1789 she with a colony of Sabbath-keepers moved to Western Virginia, and located at New Salem. In the year 1806 she removed to Ohio, and joined a little church on Mad River, called Little Bethel, which in a few years dissolved by emigration. She there lost her husband by death, and was afterward married to John Smally, and removed some distance from Sabbatarian society. After his death, which was about fifteen years ago, she again had the privilege of society, and joined the Northampton Church. She lived a pious, devoted, and self-denying Christian, and in the latter part of her life she often expressed an anxiety to leave the shores of time and go to dwell with Jesus, which was far better. E. F.
