In Alfred, N. Y., September 7, 1916, Mrs. Hannah Witter Babcock, aged 81 years, 3 months, and 2 days.
Mrs. Hannah Witter Babcock was the daughter of Porter and Mary Bowler Witter and was born in the town of Alfred, N. Y. When two years of age her parents moved to Nile, N. Y., which has since been her home.
When nineteen years of age she was united in holy wedlock to Daniel E. Babcock. To them were born seven children, all of whom excepting the two youngest - Mrs. E. E. Fenner, of Alfred, and Arthur, of Nile - have passed away. Mr. Babcock died in 1898. Besides the son and daughter, she is survived by two brothers - Deacon Orson M. Witter, of Alfred Station, N. Y., and Horace D., of Gentry, Ark., - and two sisters - Mrs. Mary W. Allen, of Alfred, and Mrs. Francis Burdick, of Wellsville, N. Y.
At the age of sixteen she was baptized by Elder H. P. Burdick and joined the First Seventh Day Baptist Church of Friendship, located at Nile. Of this church she remained a most faithful member till called home. Her husband served the church many years as deacon and she proved herself an ideal deacon's wife. Her life was one that drew young and old alike and bound them to her with that tie stronger than death - love. She was a faithful and loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, neighbor, and friend.
September 10, 1916, after a prayer service in Alfred, at the home of her daughter, with whom she had spent the last months of her life, she was taken to Nile, her old home, where a farewell service, conducted by Pastor William L. Burdick and attended by a large concourse of friends, was held and she was laid to rest by the side of her husband in the cemetery at Nile. Wm. L. B.
