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- Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, October 18, 1883 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York -October 10th, 1883, Deacon Newton M. Thompson, of typhoid fever, aged 47 years. The deceased was born July 1, 1836, in East Evans, Erie County, New York. In early infancy his parents removed to Sandy Creek with him and he has ever since been a resident of either Sandy Creek or in this village. October 20, 1858, he was married to Miss Ada A. Warner, who now survives him with the two children of their mutual love. Of religious parentage, baptized and consecrated in infancy, his whole life has been one of religious culture. At the mature age of twenty-one he made a public profession of religion, uniting with the Congregational church in this village. This profession he has ever honored by a life of spotless purity, irreproachable integrity, Christian fidelity and religious devotion_ No blot, no state has ever rested on his character. In 1877 he was chosen Deacon of the Congregational church and has been reelected to that office every annual election since that time. It's duties he has fulfilled with fidelity and acceptance, caring kindly and devotedly for the sick and the poor, watching it bedsides even when two feeble in health for the performance of such labors. For more than eighteen years he has served as Trustee in the Congregational Society, faithful, attentive and generous according to his means in the discharge of the duties of that position as well as in meeting all his obligations as a member of the church and society. Exemplary and devoted, yet quiet and unobstructed he has won only respect and goodwill, never exciting hostility and enmity. Kind and helpful as a neighbor, affectionate and patient in his domestic relations as husband and father, in all that he has endured of feeble health and of depressing sickness he has maintained the same calm equanimity even to the last hour of suffering. During his last sickness he expressed only feelings of placid trust and serene rejoicing that he was going to the heavenly home and breathed his life out tranquility, peacefully, trustingly as if he felt himself recumbent in the very arms of Jesus.
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1836 - 1883 (47 years)