At Independence, N. Y., Oct. 16, 1882, of pneumonia, Mrs. Clarissa Brown Kenyon, wife of Eld. Jared Kenyon, aged 69 years.
She was born in Salem, Washington Co., N. Y., where, at the age of sixteen, she professed hope in Christ, was baptized, and united with the First-day Baptist Church. She was educated at Bennington Academy, where her attention was first called to her duty to observe the Bible Sabbath. That subject was faithfully examined, and, as a result of that investigation, she commenced to keep the Sabbath before her acquaintance with Eld. Kenyon, to whom she was married April 1, 1839, by Eld A. Estee.
Some twenty-years since, when Bro. Kenyon began his labors in Allegany county, she continued her earnest efforts with him to carry forward the work of the blessed Master; and as the years have gone by, she has ever been known as a truly pious and exemplary Christian, and a great help to her husband in his ministry. The many who have known her have only learned to love her more and more. Her loss is deeply felt by her dear husband, and the people of God at Independence; but her work is done on earth, and the hope left to the survivors that their loss is her gain.
Eld. C. M. Lewis, of Alfred Centre, conducted the funeral services, Oct. 18th, and she was buried near the church at Independence where she had so long lived. C. M. L.
