Died in Mentz, February 29th, 1872, Mrs. Martha Ann, wife of Deacon Erastus Wethey, aged 49 years.

At a meeting of the members of the Baptist Church in Port Byron, on the 10trh of March, the following preamble and resolution were adopted:

In the sudden and unexpected death of sister Wethey, we should be doing great injustice to our feelings in view of this sad bereavement, did we not put on permanent record our sense of our loss to the Baptist Church in Port Byron; and of the eminent personal worth of our departed sister; and of the great grace of God as manifested in her in the church and Sabbath School. In her natural amiability were engrafted the graces of meekness, humility and christian love; kind and conciliatory she ever followed after the things that make for peace. Ever ready for labor and self denial; and with words of cheer and comfort ever ready to minister to the wants of the poor of the church. We record our devoted thanks to the Lord for the gift of such a laborer to his Church, and we offer our earnest prayer that he will cause the mantle of our departed sister to fall upon some one who may fill the sad raid caused by her removal. Therefore Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with our dear Brother as mourners together with him, for our own bereavement in her death; and that we tender to him our tenderest and deepest sympathies for his irreparable loss.

She rests!

Safe from all earth’s sorrowing fears,
From weary pains and fruitless tears,
With eyes closed in peaceful sleep,
With angel kisses on her cheek,
And hands folded o’er her breast,
Safe in the mansions of the blest,
She rests! she rests!

(Taken from an obituary clipping, newspaper not known)