Amy Green Saunders, the daughter of Henry and Ruth Lillibridge Green, was born in the town of Charlestown, R. I., February 10, 1810, and died in the village of Niantic, R. I., February 23, 1906. The early part of her life was spent in Charlestown, and all her life in this immediate vicinty. Novemeber 7, 1834, she was married to Samuel Saunders, coming to this place and living here in the same house for seventy years and more, her husband dying some twenty-five years ago. Soon after marriage, Mrs. Saunders and her husband came into the fellowship of Christ, were baptized and united with the First Hopkinton Seventh-day Baptist Church. They retained membership with that body until the Second Westerly Church at Niantic was organized, when they became constituent members of the new organization. They had a deep interest in that church and Mr. Saunders gave the ground on which the church building stands. Mrs. Saunders had lately passed her ninety-sixth birthday, meeting and greeting her children, all of whom were able to be with her at that time. She was in her usual health apparently, and when the stroke did come, she passed away as gently as a child falling to sleep. Three daughters are left to mourn for her, Mrs. J. L. Browning of Charlestown, Mrs. Ruth Nash of Westerly, and Mrs. D. S. Green of Winsted, Conn; also one son, William D. Saunders of New London. Mrs. Saunders was quiet and industrious, one who was respected and loved by her many friends and it was well befitting that as such she should live to that advanced age which is allowed to but few.
