At Wirt Centre, Allegany Co., N. Y., Dec. 29, 1881, Mrs. Phebe Allen, wife of Joseph Allen, aged 79 years and 7 months. She was one of the few remaining first settlers of her neighborhood, which is about two miles from the village of Nile. She was the daughter of Joseph and Lydia Maxson. At the age of thirteen she was baptized, and united with the First Hopkinton Church, in Rhode Island. In the year 1826, she moved with her father's family, to the town of Genesee, N. Y. In the following year she was married to Mr. Joseph Allen, with whom she lived just fifty-four years and one month, as she died on the same day of the month, and nearly the same hour of the day as that on which they were married. Theirs was the first marriage celebrated in the town of Genesee. She was one of the constituent members of the First Genesee Church, and some years afterward she moved her membership to the Friendship Church, of which she remained a member until her death. She is said to have lived a conscientious life; and she has left her bereaved family the comfort of a well-grounded hope, that after so long a pilgrimage, she has entered into her rest. She had the satisfaction of seeing her daughter, Mrs. O. U. Whitford, of Walworth, Wisconsin, who came while she was yet able to recognize and converse with her. C. A. B.
