Church, Adaline R. (Gillett) 1833 – 1912

CHURCH, GILLETT, HARLAN, PRICE

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:24

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Oct. 11, 1912, P-FP, C-5

OBITUARY.
CHURCH.
Adaline R. Gillett was born in Baimbridge, N. Y., on August 19, 1833. At the age of ten years her mother was taken from her by death. Then with her father she lived for a number of years at Albany, N. Y., and later returned to Baimbridge, now called Afton.
In 1856, she was united in marriage to Gaius H. Church, who preceded her to the Heavenly Home, Jan. 4, 1903. To them ware born four children. The first, a boy, died in infancy. The three remaining are Mrs. Addie Harlan, Edwin A, and Gaius Windsor Church, living here, and were with their mother until the last. Besides these she has a brother, A. W. Gillett, of Cresco, and a sister, Mrs. Hattie Price, of Hill City, Tennessee.
Mrs. Church was converted in Albany, N. Y„ during her girlhood and was always loyal to Christ as her Lord and Savior and raised her family in His service. She was a member of the Congregational church from its beginning in New Oregon in an early day.
She has been an invalid much of her later life and confined to her bed since last January, and gradually wasted away until the end, which came Friday evening, Oct. 4th.
Funeral services were conducted at the residence of C. J. Harlan, her home, Sunday afternoon, the 6th inst., by Dr. D. T. Robertson, pastor of the Congregational church, who spoke from the text: “Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season." (Job 5:26.) The interment was at the New Oregon Cemetery.

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