Lucy Champlin Cornelius was born in Westerly, R. I., May 8, 1821, and died in Alfred, N. Y., February 10, 1907 in the eighty-sixth year of her age.
She was the second of eight children in the family of Bradford and Betsy Champlin. The only one now surviving is Samuel. When she was five years old the family came to Alfred. At the age of nineteen years she was married to Gabriel Cornelius. Of the six children born to them three are living to cherish the memory of their father and mother. Of eighteen grandchildren, fifteen are living; of fourteen great-grandchildren, thirteen are living, the eldest being about sixteen years of age.
She was baptized at the age of seventeen, by Elder James Irish and became a member of the First Alfred Seventh-day Baptist church, in whose fellowship she has since remained. This pioneer family drove to church with an ox team, and when not able to do this had services in their own home. They worked hard and bore hardships bravely, the wife taking part in outdoor work, clearing land, chopping wood, piling brush, watching coal pits, etc. She saves ashes with which to buy groceries, made brooms, dried berries to get dresses for herself and girls. These habits of industry have been kept up through the years. She was a loving mother and a kind neighbor.
Funeral services were conducted at her home February 14, by Pastor Randolph. text, Revelation 14: 13. L. C. R.
