In Lincklaen, Chenango Co., N. Y., May 19th, 1881, suddenly, of heart disease, Clarke Coon, aged 83 years and 6 months. The deceased was born in Petersburgh, 1797. In early manhood, he settled with his parents, in DeRuyter, where he married and spent the first six years of his married life. He then settled in Lincklaen, where, four years later, he settled upon the farm upon which he died, and where he lived fifty-three years. At the time this settlement was made, the country was a vast wilderness, but Bro. C. lived to see, under his labor, with the blessing of God, the forest home become a fruitful field. He experienced religion in his native town at the age of eighteen, but did not make a public profession until settled in the town where he died. He was baptized by Eld. Alex Campbell, uniting with the Lincklaen branch of the Seventh-day Baptist Church of DeRuyter. When the Seventh-day Baptist Church of Lincklaen was constituted, he was one of its constituent members, and of which he remained a useful and worthy member until his death. He leaved the dear wife with whom he lived so happily more than sixty-three years, three children, and a large circle of kindred and friends, to mourn an irreparable loss, but joyfully hoping in the reunion beyond the chilling tide. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord."
J. C.
