Mrs. Sarah A. (Davis) Spicer was born in the town of Hopkinton, R. I., February 17, 1821.
She was the daughter of Pardon and Olive Davis. Of a family of three, two daughters and a son, the latter, Oliver Davis, of Nortonville, Kan., alone survives. The sister, who was the wife of George H. Spicer, of Hopkinton, died a few years ago.
She was married at Hopkinton October 30, 1841, to Charles Spicer. To them were born four children, Mrs. Henry Chester, of Ashaway; Mrs. Henry G. Pierce, of Rehoboth, Mass., and Mrs. George F. Clark, of Westerly, and Henry Spicer, who died in 1876.
Mrs. Spicer confessed her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ early in life and united with the First Hopkinton Seventh-day Baptist Church. In 1864 she joined the Pawcatuck Seventh-day Baptist Church in Westerly, and retained her membership in that body until death. She was a regular attendant on the services of the church as long as she was able, and had been a member of the Ladies' Benevolent Society. She was a lover of the Word of God and always had the book handy to read. She took great comfort in the sacred promises of the Lord. Since the death of her husband in 1893, Mrs. Spicer had spent her time, at will, with her daughters, Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Pierce. She had spent several months with Mrs. Pierce at Rehoboth, coming back last spring to Westerly. But the life of three score and ten with fifteen years added had continued until the body was not able to bear the burden of the years longer. It was simply a natural dissolution of the physical, without a weakening of the mental or any abating of the spiritual power, that brought death. She had been a resident of Westerly nearly fifty years, and had many friends and acquaintances, especially among the older people. God give us all as peaceful an end as came to her.
C. A. B.
