Mariva V. Niles, daughter of Albert and Mary Clark Warren, was born in the town of Independence, Allegany County, N. Y., November 11, 1853, and died August 7, 1920.
Of their three children she was the only one to arrive at maturity, two having died in childhood. In early life she was baptized by Rev. N. V. Hull, and united with the First Alfred Seventh Day Baptist Church.
November 11, 1872, the day that she was nineteen years old, she was united in marriage to Melville Niles, Rev. N. V. Hull officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Niles have had a long and happy married life. Many years they lived on the old Warren homestead near Alfred, but more recently they have lived at Alfred Station. To them were born two sons, Irving, who now lives near Chicago, and Harry, of Alfred Station.
In 1900, Mr. and Mrs. Niles moved into the home of her parents to care for them. Her mother lived nine years and her father sixteen years after that, and she was faithful in her care of them. That faithfulness was like "bread cast upon the waters," which was returned in the loving care of her husband for her in her more than four years of illness at the end of her life.
In recent years Mr. and Mrs. Niles moved their membership to the Second Alfred Seventh Day Baptist Church at Alfred Station. Mrs. Niles loved her home and gave the most of her life to it. What was said of her mother, may also be appropriately said of her, "In the home she was gentle, patient, and devoted to the interests of her loved ones." Funeral services were held from her late home at Alfred Station, Monday afternoon August 9, by Rev. William M. Simpson, and the body was laid to rest in Alfred Rural Cemetery.
W. M. S.
