Mrs. Verona E. (Potter) Davis, was born in the town of Alfred. October 17, 1838, and died near Alfred Station, February 18, 1913.
She was the daughter of Albert and Samantha (Sweet) Potter, and has lived in this vicinity all her life. On November 13, 1857, she was married to A. Wheeler Davis, who died March 18, 1902. Three children were born to them, all of whom are now dead.
Sister Davis united with the Second Seventh-day Baptist Church of Alfred, with her husband, during the pastorate of the late Dr. A. H. Lewis, in the winter of 1878. Mrs. Davis leaves to mourn her departure three grandchildren, two brothers, Jerome and Adelbert E. Potter, who are now both in California, and a goodly number of other relatives and friends who loved her because she was a kind and self-sacrificing, lovable Christian woman, who had learned to endure and be patient.
Though her own children are all gone, her grandchildren “rise up to call her blessed,” and praise her for her faithful devotion to them, to whom she was a mother indeed. Many in the church and society will feel their loss of a good friend, and will not soon forget her virtues. In the afternoon, with little warning, she was suddenly stricken with apoplexy, and in the in the early of the same day she had already passed from this life, as she had desired to go, quickly, and as we trust, to be forever with her Lord and the redeemed.
I. L. C.
