Samantha Sweet Potter was born in Stephentown, Rensselaer county, N. Y., June 23, 1816, and died at her home near Alfred, Jan. 15, 1902.
She was the daughter of Mr. Spencer and Hannah Sweet, the fifth of a family of fifteen children. The family moved to Alfred when she was four years old. She was married to Albert Potter Sept. 25, 1834. Their three children are still living, but the husband died in 1848. There are eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren living. She was baptized when about fifteen years old by Elder Daniel Babcock, and began a fellowship with the First Alfred church, which lasted seventy years. When her father turned from the observance of the first to the seventh day of the week, she in company with a girl friend read the Bible through, marking every passage bearing on the question, before she decided to become a Seventh-day Baptist. She was always a busy, active woman, "doing for others." She has been mothering people all her life. Her heart was loving and her face the brightest of the home circle. She was one of the grand pioneer women to whom we owe a great debt. Services conducted at the house and church Jan. 18, by the pastor, assisted by President Davis. Text, Matt. 25: 10.
F. E. P.
