John C. Potter, son of Nathan and Lucia Rogers Potter, was born February 25, 1831, in Alfred, N. Y., and died in Hornellsville, N. Y., Jan. 5, 1901, being in the 70th year of his age.
When five years old, he was left by the accidental death of his father to fight the battles of life largely alone. His home was with different relatives until he became a young man. In early life he was baptized by Rev. Nathan V. Hull, and united with the First Seventh-day Baptist Church of Alfred. Fifty-one years ago this month he was married to Miss Phebe Lewis.
His life has largely been spent at or near Alfred Station, N. Y., in Wisconsin where he lived about twelve years, and at Almond, N. Y., where the last eighteen or twenty years were passed. Their eldest daughter died when sixteen years of age in the triumphant faith of Christ. His other children, Mrs. Lettie Page of Almond, and Mrs. Jennie Roberts of Hornellsville, at whose home he passed the last few days of his life, with his bereaved companion are left to mourn.
Mr. Potter was a temperance man, kind-hearted, sympathetic, frank, impulsive and out-spoken, a great reader and much interested in politics, in which he was well posted. The purifying influence of more than two years of sickness seemed to bring him in closer touch, and give him a renewed faith and communion with God. Funeral services were held in the Presbyterian church of Almond, and interment made in the family plot in Alfred Rural Cemetery. I. L. C.
