Onondaga County New York Obituaries Extracted From The Northern Christian Advocate, Syracuse, NY, 1883

1883 Obituaries from the Northern Christian Advocate in Syracuse, Onondaga County New York.

HUBBARD, Martha, Obituary

Martha Hubbard was born in England, July 15, 1798, and died suddenly in Caton, Steuben Co., N.Y., April 9, 1883. Mother Hubbard experienced religion when very young and united with the Wesleyan society in England. In 1831 Wm. and Martha Hubbard came to Caton when it was a wilderness. They brought their religion with them. They soon started prayer-meetings, and in 1833 the first Methodist class of six members was formed. Wm. Hubbard was leader. He was killed some years after by the falling of a tree. His death was a severe blow, as it left her in a new country with a large family to care for. But she was a woman of heroic courage and strong unwavering faith in God, and thus was equal to every emergency. She was a Methodist of olden type; lover of the prayer and class-meetings, she often said "I can't live without them." She was a true friend of the preacher and always met him as he came to the charge with her blessing and "quarterage," as she called it. She gave to all the benevolences of the church. Her presence in the house of God was a benediction. She lived to see the wilderness blossom as the rose, and the class of six grow to more than two hundred. She often expressed a desire to "cease at once to work and live." She attended church the Sabbath before she died. During Monday she appeared cheerful and happy, but as the natural sun was sinking in the West, her sun went down in a cloudless sky. Her funeral was largely attended: the pulpit and the pew she had occupied was suitably draped and we all felt that a mother in Israel had left us. C. J. BRADBURY. [Northern Christian Advocate, (Syracuse, NY), May 31, 1883 P.7]

MILLER, Mrs. S. A., Obituary

Mrs. S. A. MILLER died at her home in Savona, Steuben Co., N.Y., June 7, 1883, in the 64th year of her age. She was converted in early life, and has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in Savona forty-three years. Her conversion was marked and clear and her Christian life exemplary. Death came suddenly. She was consumptive and seemed to be gradually failing. She had eaten an unusually hearty dinner for her; in about ten minutes after leaving the table, the blood began to flow from her mouth in such quantities that she died before any of the neighbors could reach her home. She leaves four daughters; three of them were in town and two were with her when she died. She was a faithful and true mother. The text used at her funeral, "A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth," was not out of harmony with the life she lived. C.R. BUCK [Northern Christian Advocate, (Syracuse, NY), June 21, 1883 P.7]

MINER, Aiden, Obituary

Aiden Miner was born in Lansing, Tompkins Co., N.Y., Dec. 26, 1805, and died at his home in Greenwood, Steuben Co., N.Y., June 30, 1883. Spiritually much of his time has run to waste. More than three score and ten years of his life were given to the service of this world before any effort was made to prepare for realities of which he knows far more now than tongue can tell or pen express. The grandest thing in his life of which we can speak is the fact of his repentance. His aged form did bow, with his tounge he did confess, and in his heart he did believe on the Lord Jesus Crhist. He was received into the Methodist Episcopal Chruch in 1881. One of the marked evidences of conversion was his love for and study of God's Word. His Bible, which had been continually neglected in the past of his life, now became his constant study and delight. He leaves a wife, two daughters and a son to mourn their loss. C. R. BUCK. [Northern Christian Advocate, (Syracuse, NY), July 26, 1883 P.7]

RICE, Mary Ann, Obituary

Mrs. Mary Ann Rice, wife of Ezekiel Rice, and daughter of Richard and Mary Coller, died of dropsy of the chest, in Howard, N.Y., May 18th, 1883, in the 72nd year of her age. Sister Rice was born in Athens, Greene Co., N.Y., Aug. 16, 1811; moved with her parents to Steuben county in 1812, and was married to Ezekiel Rice, Feb. 25, 1838. She had been a devoted and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church forty nine years. The triumphs of grace during her las sickness was very marked and glorious. Thus has passed to her everlasting rest this weary out happy Christian pilgrim, washed in the blood of the Lamb. She leaves eight children and an aged companion to mourn her absence. N.N. BEERS. [Northern Christian Advocate, (Syracuse, NY), July 26, 1883 P.7]