Mrs. Emma Place died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Amy Place-Coon on Madison Ave, Thursday morning January 20, 1898, in the 82d year of her age. Nearly all the early years of her life were passed in Alfred, N. Y., where she was married and where with her husband, Phillip Place, she assisted in building up a comfortable home, and in rearing a family of five children, three sons and two daughters. Besides providing for the physical and temporal wants of this growing family, Mr. and Mrs. Place took great pains to furnish food for the mind and to stimulate the desire for intellectual and spiritual adornment in the minds and hearts of their children. In the home as well as in society and in the church, Mrs. Place was always a true gentlewoman. Refined in taste, quiet in manner, gentle in spirit, pure in heart, she was uniformly courteous and kind. After the death of her husband she came to Milton to make her home with her daughter, by whom she was most affectionately cared for in her declining days, and at whose house she died as already mentioned. Only this daughter and her youngest son, T. I. Place, were with her in her last days. Her eldest son, W. F. Place, for some years professor of Latin in Milton College, is now a pastor in Francestown, N. H., and the other son is a practicing physician at Ceres, Pa. The other daughter, Mrs. Ellen York, is living near Wellsville, N. Y. In early life Mrs. Place became a Christian and united with the First Seventh Day Baptist church in Alfred. On coming to Milton she changed her membership to the church of the same faith in this village and continued in that fellowship to the end. Brief funeral services were held at the house on Sabbath afternoon, conducted by her pastor, Dr. Platts, and the remains were taken to Alfred for burial.
