In Providence, R. I., Jan. 16, 1889, Peleg Saunders, son of Capt. Clark and Sarah Rogers Saunders, in his 80th year.
By trade, Brother Saunders was a ship carpenter. He was married Jan. 15, 1839, to Mary, daughter of Deacon Daniel and Content Babcock, who was an estimable woman, zealous in Christian work, and noted for her Christian consecration. The day of Bro. Saunders funeral, Sabbath-day, Jan. 19th, was the sixth anniversary of her crossing the river; and we trust they spent this anniversary together.
Bro. Saunders lived a quiet peaceful Christian life, was gentle as a woman, and though not possessing large financial resources, he made regular and generous contributions to benevolent objects. Our last call from him, a little while before his departure, was on such an errand.
Of a family of ten brothers and sisters, only three remain. Dr. Henry P. Saunders, M. D., of Alfred Centre, N. Y., and Mary and Sarah Saunders, who live on the old homestead near Potter Hill, and with whom Peleg has lived of late, except short intervals when visiting his daughter, Mrs. Ella Lewis, of Providence, where he had gone the day before Christmas, and where death overtook him. I. L. C.
