In Ashaway, R. I., Jan. 10, 1902, of pneumonia, Mrs. Emeline Wells Lewis, in the 76th year of her age.
The subject of this brief sketch was born June 11, 1826. She was the daughter of George and Sophia Stillman Wells. At about fifteen years of age she took Christ into her life, was baptized and united with the First-day Baptist church of Quaker Hill, Conn. Soon thereafter removing to Ashaway, she attended the services of the First Hopkinton Seventh-day Baptist church, with which body she united in February, 1847. Oct. 4, 1846, she was married to Christopher C. Lewis, with whom she passed a long and helpful life. Six children were born to them, four dying in infancy; a daughter and son were left to them until about fifteen years ago when the daughter, Ida, having just finished school at Alfred, was stricken, and the blow fell very heavily upon the family. Mrs. Lewis had been in poor health for a long time, and, taking a sudden cold, lived only five days afterward. She leaved her aged husband, a son, and one sister's immediate relatives to mourn her loss. C. A. B.
