Mrs. Carrie A. (Saunders) Babcock, daughter of Edward Saunders and Margaret (Wiliams) Saunders, was born in Darien, N.Y., in 1841, and died at her home in Alden, N.Y., January 8. 1911.
Mrs. Babcock will be quickly recognized by the present generation of Seventh-day Baptists as the mother of Prof. Edward S. Babcock, formerly of Alfred University, now of Riverside, Cal. She is the youngest of a remarkable family, prominent in the Darien Seventh-day Baptist Church fifty or more years ago. When the Darien Church, because of removals, was disbanded, she removed her membership to the First Alfred Seventh-day Baptist Church, where later her husband and her three children and three grandchildren were all baptized and united in membership. Since her marriage in 1865 to James Lathrup Babcock of Alden, N. Y., the family has resided there. Mr. Babcock died in 1909. One sister older, Miss Sarah Saunders of Alden, survives her, also her three children - Prof. Edward S. Babcock of Riverside, Cal., Mrs. Elsie (Babcock) Bass of Alden, and Professor LeRoy Babcock of Sandusky, Ohio - and seven grandchildren.
Mrs. Babcock, though during all her married life an isolated Sabbath-keeper nearly one hundred miles from her church home, was a faithful Christian and a loyal Seventh-day Baptist, as the result of her life upon her family shows. She was quiet, but strong and loving and convincing. Her funeral and interment were conducted by the writer at Alden, January 11, 1911.
B. C. D.
