Mrs. Mary Stillman Crandall was born in Hopkinton, R. I., Aug. 21, 1803, and died at the home of her daughter in Alfred, N. Y., Sept. 21, 1899, aged 96 years and one month.
Her parents were David and Grace Stillman. In 1825 she married John Crandall. In 1856 they moved to Alfred, where, in 1889, Mr. Crandall died. They had four children: two survive, Mrs. Dr. H. P. Saunders, of Alfred, and Morton D. Crandall, of Richburg. At the age of sixteen she joined the First Hopkinton church, then standing on the site of the monument dedicated on the last day of Conference. Matthew Stillman and others named on the monument were her pastors, of whom she spoke in high esteem but a few days before her death. After some years her membership was changed to the Pawcatuck church, from which it was never removed. She was a good woman and lived a quiet, even, conscientious Christian life. Children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren rise up and call her blessed. Funeral services at the house, Sept. 23, 2:30 P. M. Text, John 14: 2, 3. Interment in Alfred Rural Cemetery. J. L. G.
