In Alfred, N. Y., May 28, 1911, Willie Bert Kenyon, aged 48 years, 9 months and 6 days.
Mr. Kenyon was the son of Dennis and Delma Amanda Browning Kenyon, and was born in Clifford, Pa. Here he spent his childhood and early youth, and here at the age of twelve years he was baptized and joined the Seventh-day Baptist Church. Upon coming to Alfred, thirty years ago, he became a member of the First Seventh-day Baptist Church of Alfred and has since been a member of its communion. He has won many friends by his clean, upright life. He attended the schools of Clifford, then for a short time those of Plainfield, N. J., and when he was eighteen, he came to Alfred with his parents and entered the university. He made many friends in whose circle he will be sorely missed.
Last year the disease developed which cut short his life, and in the early winter he came to know full well that the end was not many months distant. The months which followed were those of great and weary suffering, which he patiently bore. It was his desire to recover for the sake of his family, but if it was God's will that he should die, he was resigned and ready.
March 24, 1887, he was married to Miss Edith Nema Clarke, who together with five children, his father and mother of New Market, N. J., two sisters, Mrs. Belle Ellis of Creg Place, Texas, and Mrs. W. A. Barber of Cleveland, Ohio, and a large circle of relatives and friends mourn his departure, Funeral services were held at his home, June 1, and interment took place in Alfred Rural Cemetery.
Wm. L. B.
