In Dodge Center, Minn., April 29, 1885, of consumption, Mrs. Ellen A. wife of Dr. J. M. Saunders, in the 60th year of her age. Sister Saunders embraced religion at the age of ten years and was baptized by Eld. Alexander Campbell and became a member of the Seventh-day Baptist Church at De Ruyter, N. Y. She was an earnest devoted Christian worker, an efficient teacher in the Sabbath school as long as her health would allow, and was always ready to bear a part in the social meetings of the church. She greatly assisted her husband in his professional work, and ministered to the wants of the suffering until the exposure connected with this work compelled her to relinquish it. She with her husband moved from New York to Wisconsin in 1851, remaining there nineteen years, removing to Dodge Center in 1870. During her sickness every want was fully met by her devoted husband, daughters, and her mother and a host of neighbors and friends who came in without regard to religious or family ties to repay, in some small degree, the debt of love they owed to her. She made largely the arrangements for her funeral, selecting the lesson to be read and the text, viz, Job 3: 17 and 2 Cor. 5: 8 from which her pastor discoursed to a large and attentive audience. May her mantle of zeal and faithfulness fall upon the sisterhood of this church, of which she was a valuable member at the time of her death.
H. B. L.
