At Sanbornton BridgeEditorial Note: Sanbornton Bridge is now known as Tilton, New Hampshire., Nov. 21, Abigail A. Baker, wife of Mark Baker, Esq., aged 65 years and six months.

The character of Mrs. Baker was distinguished for numerous excellencies, and these were most happily blended. She possessed a strong intellect, a sympathizing heart, and a placid spirit. Her presence, like the gentle dew and cheerful light, was felt by all around her. She gave an elevated character to the tone of the conversation in the circles in which she moved, and directed attention to themes at once pleasing and profitable. She appeared no less lovely in the sphere of domestic life. As a mother, she was untiring in her efforts to secure the happiness of her family. The oft-repeated impressions of that sainted spirit on the hearts of those especially entrusted to her watch-care can never be effaced, and can hardly fail to induce them to follow her to the brighter world. No sacrifice was esteemed too great, could it subserve their interests. She ever entertained a lively sense of the parental obligation in regard to the education of her children. She was the mother of Albert Baker, Esq., whose memory is still so highly cherished and whose early death was so deeply lamented. As a wife, she was rarely equaledAs Written:equalled. Kind and conciliatory in manner, wise and prudent As Written: prident in counsel, at all times cheerful and hopeful, she was the presiding genius of a lovely circle and a happy home. She was anxious during the first of her illness to recover, that she might be useful to her family, and remove to her new home, but as disease increased she said, "Let me go to myAs Written:me home of eternal rest."

Although that new home, which she first anticipated entering, is clothed in sadness, yet she has gone to a mansionJohn 14:2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. far more beautiful, where gratitude and love may find the harp and voice so long desired and so admirably adapted to pour forth an appropriate song of praise, and where she may welcome those loved ones she left in tears, when her spirit took its flight to the spirit land. Her partings with her husband and childrenEditorial Note: Samuel Dow Baker, George Sullivan Baker, Abigail Tilton, Martha Pillsbury, Mary Baker Eddy were as calm as her admonitions in health; and with a peaceful and triumphant smile she fell asleep in JesusI Thess 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. .

Editorial Note: This is a stanza from the poem “How Blest the Righteous When He Dies” by Anna Laetitia Barbauld in the Leisure Hour Improved (Ironbridge, England: 1809).

Those who saw her look in death may scarcely fear to die. Her life was a living illustration of Christian faith, and her death furnished additional verification of the glorious truth that the religion of Jesus Christ is an unfailing source of consolation and support, even in the agonies of death. The bereaved husband laments the loss of a devoted wife, mourning childrenEditorial Note: Samuel Dow Baker, George Sullivan Baker, Abigail Tilton, Martha Pillsbury, Mary Baker Eddy an affectionate mother, the church one of its brightest ornaments, and community one of its most valued members.

Written by the Rev. Richard S. Rust, D.D.