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- Newspaper Obituary - Wednesday, March 9, 1904 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Altmar - Eliza Pierce Hinman - Death has again entered our village and taken from our midst one of the best known and most loved inhabitants, in the person of Mrs. Abner Hinman, whose death occurred, Saturday morning at six o'clock, after weeks of suffering with pneumonia and the last agonies accompanying a cancer in the breast. Her husband and daughter, Julia, and her friends did all that human power could do for her comfort, but her work was done; her hour had come and she answered the summons to come up higher. Eliza Pierce was born in Lorraine, Jefferson county, May, 1830. She came to this village when a young girl and has since resided here. She was the youngest of a family of nine children, all of whom have gone except Mrs. Palmer, of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Thirty-five years ago she married Abner Hinman, who with the daughter, Julia, survive her. Mrs. Hinman early united with the Congregational church and has always lived all earnest Christian life. She was many years a teacher in the Sunday school being especially fitted for that sacred work. She was one of the first to see the need of help in the sick room, hence her ministrations among her friends won her the title of a "Mary," for "She did what she could" always. She loved to serve her friends, and she was endowed with that peculiar faculty which enabled her to do much in the work of helping others. She has won a rich reward and we are sure she has already received it. Her funeral was held yesterday afternoon at half-past two, and according to her dying request, Mr. B.G. Seamans, of Pulaski, who has had charge of the Congregational church here the past year and a half, read the burial services and delivered a funeral address, taking for his theme, "She Hath Done What She Could," in them finding words appropriate to speak over the casket of one whose life had been so complete in serving as she thought her Savior would be pleased to honor. Miss Lillian Longstreet of Mexico and Mrs. D. A. Fradenburg sang two selections. Friends were present from Oswego, Sandy Creek and Mexico. A large number of floral tributes were in the evidence.
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1830 - 1904 (73 years)