Near the village of Koshkonong, Wis., Oct. 7, 1890. Mrs. Asenath Smith, in the 82d year of her age.
The subject of this notice was born at Hancock, Mass., May 30, 1808. She was the daughter of Wm. Bell. About the year 1828 she was married to Daniel G. Smith. Soon after this she professed faith in Christ and was baptized by Eld. Wm. Satterlee, and joined the Berlin Church in New York. They moved into the vicinity of Albion about the year 1857, and she transferred her membership to this church. She was the mother of seven children, all of whom are living except one. Only three of them could be at the funeral, however. It is a source of great comfort to the relatives that she was an earnest Christian woman for many years of her life. The subject of death was one about which she talked with much freedom and familiarity for some time before her death. Having been afflicted with the asthma for some time, when she took cold it proved too much for her aged frame, and she steadily declined. She expressed the wish that she might go to sleep and never awake, and she passed away in this manner. It may be truly said of her that she “fell asleep in Jesus.” W. H. E.
