Histories

Mrs. Lucinda Elmer

"God's finger touched her, and she slept."

A most beautiful life closed at Waterman, Ill., when on July 3, 1897, Mrs. Lucinda Elmer peacefully ended her earthly mission.

For sixty-seven years she had been not only a member of the church, but a loyal and devoted follower of her Lord, and the Baptists of this community have long felt in her a faithful witness to the truth as she found it in Jesus.

An appropriate text for the close of such a life was found in the words, "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord... That they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them."

The funeral services, which were well attended, occurred at the home of her only daughter, Mrs. George Greenwood, with whom she had lived during the last twenty-five years. Her only other child living is a son, who now resides in Omaha, Neb. Three sisters and one brother still survive her, the ages of whom range from seventy-seven to ninety-four years.

Mrs. Elmer was born in Jefferson County, New York state, Jan. 28, 1810, thus at her death she had attained the ripened age of eighty-seven and one-half years. Her maiden name was Lucinda Doan. She had been twice married; first to Mr. Sawyer Hall. They had three children, one of whom died but two years ago. Her second husband was Mr. Nathan Elmer, who has been on the other side now almost thirty-three years. In both relations she was an exemplary Christian mother, and has left a priceless heritage of character to those who are still here to mourn her death.

At the age of forty-three she left her native state along with Mr. Elmer, in order to make her home in this section of the country. Throughout her life she had taken keen interest in all the progress that concerned noble womanhoood, and almost to the last she retained such possession of her faculties as enabled her to follow with zeal everything that touched the welfare of the community in which God had placed her. Especially was she solicitous in behalf of her Master's kingdom; she prayed and looked and worked for its coming, and come whenever it may no one who knew her can ever doubt but that she will have a place therein.

-- Newspaper clipping in Hall Bible records