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- Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, June 2, 1887 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Died - At her residence in this village May 25, 1887, Mrs. Lovisa S. Knapp, aged 68. The maiden name of the deceased was Lovisa Sheldon. She was born in Watertown, New York October 24th, 1820, and was married to Orville H. Knapp, December 24th, 1840. Her husband deceased December 29th 1880 and since that time Mrs. Knapp has lived with her only child and daughter, Mrs. Gilbert L. Cross, either at the residence of her daughter or in her own. The deceased was a great sufferer during the last two years of her life from a disease which attended with dropsy and was pronounced incurable from its first complete development. The attendant sufferings have been borne with great patience and fumness of endurance, qualities which she had always manifested to a remarkable degree in all the trying circumstances of life. Her calmness and fortitude as well as her trust in her Heavenly Father's care and love never wavered in the contemplation of the certainty of the fatal issue of her disease, not in the last moments of the death struggle. There was perfect serenity and composure to the last. She chose for the text to be used as the theme of discourse at her funeral obsequies, the words of the beloved apostle, descriptive of the highest relation of God as made known alone in the gospel of Christ, "God is love." The liturgical funeral services were conducted by Rev. R. Paul, rector of the Episcopal Church, and the discourse was preached by Rev. J. Douglass, former pastor of the Congregational Church, who had received her husband to that church and administered to him its sacraments some months before his death. Highly esteemed for her superior kindliness of heart, her loss was mourned by a wide circle of friends who attended the last rites of sepulture.
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1820 - 1887 (66 years)