Martha Daniels

DANIELS

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 5/25/2017 at 09:38:47

28 January 1862 - The Tipton Advertiser

DIED, at Tipton, January 18, 1862, MARTHA, wife of SAMUEL DANIELS, aged 78 years.

Mrs. Daniels was born in Bolton, Ct., but removed at an early age to the State of Vermont, where she spent the larger part of her life. At the age of eighteen, she made a public profession of her faith in Christ, and united with the Congregational Church at Norwich, Vermont. In the year 1834, she removed with her husband to Oberlin, Ohio, where, and at Amherst, in the same State, they remained till 1853, when they removed to this place, where they have since resided.

Mrs. D. had been very frail, for a number of years; yet she continued, with great resolution and interest, to take an active part in the affairs of life, almost to the day of her death. She often spoke and with much propriety, of her failing strength, and her impaired faculties; and looked forward to the day of her departure from the world with calmness and hope. She felt that the work here was done, and she was ready to go, at the word of the Master. Her whole reliance for salvation was upon the Saviour. She placed no confidence in any works of righteousness which she had done, or could ever do.

Her interest in the great benevolent enterprises and reforms of the present day, was one of the marked things in her life. She was a constant reader, not only of the Bible, but of current events. More than once, on dropping into her room, have I found her, when almost too weak to read aloud, reading some recent article, on the great questions of the day, to one who had eyes to read no more, and who will miss the companion of nearly sixty years, more deeply and sorrowfully than any of us.

The church to which she belonged, has lost a member who esteemed it one of the highest privileges to be with the people of God. She continued and loved to attend upon the ordinances of the sanctuary, long after her infirmities rendered her unable to reach the place without assistance. It was no uninteresting sight, to behold the aged couple, of a Sabbath morning, on their way to the house of God, the one guiding by her eye, while the other supported with his strong arm.

But she is gone, to return to her house no more. Once, a prattling child, a blooming girl, a youthful and devoted wife, the assiduous mother of a rising family; she has, at length, completed the allotted term of life, and now sleeps her last sleep.

"So fades the summer cloud away;
So sinks the gale, when storms are o'er'
So gently shuts the eye of day;
So dies a wave along the shore."

(Our Mother's work was finished and it was well done. --Ed. Adv.)