In Hopkinton, R. I., Nov. 27th, 1861, of apoplexy, Mrs. Sally Fenner Irish, wife of Geo. Irish, aged 69 years. Mrs. Irish made a public profession of religion April 19th, 1806, and united with the First Seventh-day Baptist Church in Hopkinton, when about fourteen years of age. Her first marriage was with Phillip A. Fenner, about the year 1817, with whom she subsequently moved to Poland, N. Y., where she resided for several years. After which she moved, with her family, to Wisconsin, where she buried her husband and three children. She finally removed to her native State, Rhode Island, where she lived to bury three more of her family. In the autumn of 1859, she was joined in marriage with George Irish. This union, although a happy one, was not to be continued long, as it was suddenly interrupted by her death, after a little more than two years continuance. Sister Irish having joined the First Seventh-day Baptist in Hopkinton, by letter from the Mystic Seventh-day Baptist Church, about two years since, closed her pilgrimage a member of the church with which she first united. Human life, to her, has been a checkered scene, and its way often rugged and difficult. But to her Christianity was a divine reality, affording comfort in affliction, and grace for every time of need, hence her cheerful submission to the will of God, which she manifested through life, though called often to wade the deep waters of affliction and sorrow. She was a faithful wife, an affectionate mother, a true friend, and devoted Christian. She believed with undoubting faith the doctrine of the future life; about which she was always ready. familiarly, to converse, frequently saying, “she had no fear of death.” By this providence her aged husband and surviving children have been bereft of a good wife and an indulgent mother, and the church and world of one whose aim in living was to do good. But they are comforted with the assurance, that their great loss is infinitely more than made up to the departed, by the realization of the joyous objects of Christian hope beyond the dark river.
J. C.
