In Ashaway, R. I., April 6, 1910, Mrs. Alura Jane Crandall, aged 73 years and 10 months. Mrs. Crandall was born in Mystic, Conn., and was the daughter of Capt. Jeremiah W. and Sabrina Brown Wilcox. On June 29, 1853, she was married to Nathan M. Crandall who seventeen years later died leaving to her the care of their three sons. In early life she gave her heart to Christ and joined the Baptist Church at Mystic, Conn., but twenty-six years last December she became a member of the First Seventh-day Baptist Church of Hopkinton, R. I., and remained such till called to join the church triumphant. She was a firm believer in the efficacy of prayer, and the many marked passages in her New Testament show that she had feasted her soul on its riches. Being a woman of strong mind she traveled life's pathway with fixedness of purpose and unwavering steadfastness to what she thought wise and best. Her last days were those of great suffering; but she was resigned, and was tenderly cared for in the home of her son, A. Julian Crandall, where she had come but three weeks before. Besides the son with whom she died, she leaves two other sons - Lester J. of Somerset, Mass., and Edgar L. of Norwich, Conn. - to mourn a mother's departure.
Farewell services were held Sabbath afternoon, April 9, and all that was mortal was laid to rest in Oak Grove Cemetery. WM. L. B.
