In Lincklaen, Chenango Co., N. Y., Dec. 9, 1882, of paralysis, at the
residence of her niece, Mrs. Ira S. Crandall, Mrs. Emily Nichols Babcock, widow
of the late Peleg Babcock, aged 81 years, 10 months, and 6 days. Sister
Babcock was born in Hopkinton, R. I., Feb. 3, 1801, and was a daughter of the
late George and Charlotte Coon Nichols, and niece of Eld. Asa Coon. When
sixteen years old, she made a profession of religion in Christian baptism
administered by Eld. Wm. Satterlee, of precious memory, and united with the
Seventh-day Baptist Church of DeRuyter. Subsequently she became a constituent
member of the Seventh-day Baptist Church in Lincklaen. At the age of
twenty-eight years, she became a member of the family of Eld. Matthew Stillman,
of Hopkinton, whose wife was her aunt, and united with the First Hopkinton
Church, of which Eld. Stillman was pastor. After her marriage to Peleg Babcock
in 1850, they settled in DeRuyter, and became members of our church. After the
death of her husband, she made her home in Lincklaen, uniting with that church
again, of which she remained a member until death. She was an exemplary
Christian, and has left her numerous kindred and friends the blessed assurance
that their great loss is her infinite gain. "Blessed are the dead that die in
the Lord."
J. C.
