"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol. 42, No. 13, p. 5, Apr. 1, 1886.
In Farina, Ill., March 10, 1886, Mrs. Lucy Potter, widow of Benjamin Franklin Potter. She was 71 years and 13 days old at the time of her death. Her "native land" was Truxton, N. Y. When young she was baptized and joined the Lincklaen Church. Afterward she was a member of the Little Genesee Church for many years, during twenty years of which time she resided at Alfred Center. In 1841, at Nile, N. Y., she became the wife of Mr. Potter. About twenty years ago she moved to this place, where she has since lived. She has been an uncommon sufferer. Having had that lingering and painful disease, rheumatism, so bad that she was deprived of the use of her feet, and to a good extent also, the use of her hands, she became a cripple thirty years ago. Even in this condition, for fifteen years she did much of her work, when she became entirely blind. For eight years she could neither see nor walk, not have much use of her hands. During the rest of her life, about seven years, she could see enough to recognize her friends. During all this she exercised a living faith in Christ, and was supported by the divine presence. Many will miss the softening and sympathetic influence of a sufferer in her death. We have good reason to believe that her sorrow and faith have changed to joy and rejoicing in the presence of Jesus Christ. W. H. E.
