At Ashaway, R. I., Sabbath day, Feb. 26, 1876, Mrs. Martha Irish, in the 86th year of her age. The subject of this notice, the daughter of Jared and Martha Babcock, of Quonocontaug, was born Aug. 8th, 1790. On or about the year 1812, she made a public profession of faith in Christ, and united with the First Seventh-day Baptist church of Hopkinton. On the 6th day of January, 1842, she was married to Dea. J. T. Thurston, of the First-day Baptist church of Westerly, and transferred her membership to the Pawcatuck Seventh-day Baptist church. Her religious convictions were decided, yet she ever treated the convictions of her husband with deferential respect. Reciprocally, they often accompanied each other to their respective places of worship. Dea. Thurston having died, she was married June 23d, 1862, to the late George Irish, and soon after reunited with the church of her first fellowship, where she remained, loved and honored, as a faithful member to the close. She loved the cause of her Master, and her hand was open to minister of her substance to those enterprises in which her people are engaged.
J. R. I.
