Lydia Rogers Noyes, daughter of Sanford and Martha V. Noyes, was born Sept. 1, 1804, and died at her home near Niantic, R. I., March 26, 1895, in the 91st year of her age.
October 11, 1829, she was married to Dr. Joseph D. Kenyon, who, after nearly 50 years of happily wedded lives, died June 29, 1879. In 1841, at the age of 37, Mrs. Kenyon, together with her husband and a daughter, publicly professed Christ and joined the First Seventh-day Baptist Church, of Hopkinton, R. I.; and this was her spiritual home at the time she passed on to more exalted membership in the church triumphant, “the home of the soul.”
For 56 of the 66 years since her marriage this house was her home; and three daughters, two sons, four grandchildren, a sister, and two brothers survive the beloved mother, grandmother and sister. “When shall I lay my armor by, and dwell with Christ at home?” - part of a hymn she used to sing, - were among her latest spoken words.
