In Alfred, March 13, 1891, of old age, Mrs. Martha Maxson Crandall, widow of the late Wm. Crandall, aged 88 years.
She was the oldest [daughter] of a family of seven children, - five sons and two daughters, - born to Benjamin and Martha Saunders Maxson, three of whom survive her. She was born in Petersburg, N. Y., March 16, 1803, and at the age of 17 came with her parents to Alfred, where she spent the remainder of her life (less four years spent in an adjoining town).
She made a profession of religion in early life and united with the First Seventh-day Baptist Church in Alfred, and after settlement in her final home, united with the Second Church, of which she remained a good member until death. She was a devout Christian, faithful wife, loving mother, and true friend, and had the care of loving and faithful children as she went down life's declivity, eight of whom survive her. "Absent from the body, but present with the Lord." J. C.
