Orson M. Witter, fourth son of Squire P. and Mary A. Bowler Witter, was born near Nile, N. Y., May 3, 1843, and died at Tampa, Fla., at the home of his daughter, Mabel, wife of A. U. Potter, July 20, 1923.
He was married to N. Eliza Allen March 26, 1865, by Rev. N. V. Hull at Alfred. To them three children were born. The daughter Mabel, who gave him loving care through his last years, remains. There is also an adopted son, George Witter, of Albert Lee, Minn.
Of Mr. Witter's ten brothers and sisters, three remain - Mrs. Mary Allen, of Alfred, N. Y.; Horace D. Witter, of Gentry, Ark.; and Mrs. Francis W. Burdick, of Wellsville, N. Y.
In early life he became a member of the First Seventh Day Baptist Church of Friendship at Nile, which he later served as deacon. In later life he lived at Alfred Station where for a number of years he served the Second Alfred Church as deacon.
On the afternoon of July 24 friends gathered at the church at Alfred Station to pay honors to a life that had been so kind, so considerate of others, so devoted to his Master's cause, and burial was made at Mount Hope Cemetery, Friendship.
W. M. S.
