SEELEY – Emily Abbott Seeley, wife of Luman D. Seeley, was born in Deerfield township, Tioga Co., Pa., Feb. 3 18_7, and departed this life Jan. 23, 1884. Sister Seeley was converted to God and joined the Troup’s Creek Methodist Episcopal Church at Austinburg, Pa., in February, 1848. For thirty five years she was faithful to the cause which she early espoused, and together with her husband who is left to mourn her death, she was ever found filling the place assigned her in the work of the church. Seldom absent from the services of God’s house, always an inspiration to the preacher and an attentive learner in the Bible class. “She hath done what she could” as a faithful wife, a thoughtful neighbor and a consistent follower of the lamb. Faithful to her duties until three hours before her death, when she was stricken with apoplexy and suddenly taken to her reward. On the Sabbath preceding her death while passing out of church she replied to a question asked her by her pastor, Rev. George S. Spencer, “I am always happy.” Sister Seeley is still happy beyond the reach of death, while her bereaved husband and family of six sons and two daughters, and a large circle of other relatives and friends are called to mourn, but “not as those who have no hope.”
G.S. SPENCER
Published in the Northern Christian Advocate, March 13, 1884 page 7
[Wife of SGS #2483 – Luman Dwight (#2483); Luman (#910); Justus; Justus; John; Benjamin; Nathaniel; Robert]
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