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Submitted by:  Susan Nahas

Source: From The Sabbath Recorder, the newspaper of the Seventh Day Baptist Church.
 

Benjamin Franklin Potter
 
In Farina, IL, Dec. 20, 1876, of congestion of the lungs, Benjamin F. Potter, aged 64 years, 1 month, and 3 days.  He was a resident of Alfred Centre, NY some 29 years, and moved from that place to this in the Spring of 1866.  He made a profession of religion in early life and joined the 1st church of Hopkinton, RI, the only church of which he was ever a member.  He was a social, intelligent, hard-working man.  For the last 2 years, his health had been gradually failing him, and last Autum he had a fever sickness, from the effects of which he never recovered, which induced the disease of which he died.  It was evident for a few days before his death that the Divine Spirit
was preparing him for his change.  His last moments were spent in prayer.  A wife who has been helpless for many years, is left to miss his strong arm, and pass her remaining years in loneliness; and 2 sons and a daughter to feel deeply their loss.
 
 
 

Submitted by:  Susan Nahas

Source: From The Sabbath Recorder, the newspaper of the Seventh Day Baptist Church.
 

Lucy (Maxson) Potter
In Farina, IL, Mar. 10, 1886, Mrs. Lucy Potter, widow of Benjamin Franklin Potter.  She was 71 years and 13 days old at the time of her death.  Her "native land" was Truxton, NY.  When young she was baptized and joined the Lincklaen Church.  Afterward she was a member of the Little Genesee Church  for many years, during 20 years of which time she resided at Alfred Centre.

In 1841, at Nile, NY, she became the wife of Mr. Potter.  About 20 years ago she moved to this place, where she has since lived.  She has been an uncommon sufferer.  Having had that lingering and painful disease, rheumatism, so bad that she was deprived of the use of her feet, and to a good extent also, the use of her hands, she became a cripple 30 years ago.  Even in this condition, for 15 years she did much of her work, when she became entirely blind.  For 8 years she could neither see nor walk, nor have much use of her hands.  During the rest of her life, about 7 years, she could see enough to recognize her friends.  During all this she exercised a living faith in Christ, and was supported by the divine presence.  Many will miss the softening and sympathetic influence of such a sufferer in her death.
 

 
 
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