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- Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, April 30, 1874 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Casket - Weed - In Richland, April 1874, Nancy Weed, aged _ years.
Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, May 7, 1874 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Obituary - In Richland April 21, 1874, Nancy Weed, aged 87 years. The deceased was born January 5th, 1787 in Suffield, Connecticut. In early life she removed with her parents to Pawlet, Vermont where they remained until 1807, when they came to this place. Her father, Deacon Thaddeaus Harmon was one of the first Deacons of the Congregational church in this place and was present at its organization in Pawlet, Vermont before the colonists came to this state. In 1811 she married Deacon Nehemiah S. Weed, a name honored in the memory of men and the history of the church, for his devoted, earnest and benevolent life. In May 1815, she united by profession of faith with the Congregational church of this place. Conscientious, devoted, exemplary, her life has been one of pre-eminent prayerfulness, no press of care, duty or of labor could make her forget or neglect the hour of her secret devotion. Her relations to God, her creator and redeemer, constituted the paramount interests of her life. The very anxieties that sometimes beclouded her peace showed only more clearly that the fact that her whole soul, every thought and energy given to the duty of God. The text chosen by herself for her funeral discourse was taken from the words of Job, "I know that my redeemer liveth." This was the silent song of the heart in all the steps of her earthly pilgrimage. Above the troubled waters of death it sounded the notes of a joyful victory at last, and the soul that shrunk from the shadow and the chill as it approached the dark valley found even in its darkness the brightness of an eternal presence; its faith realized, my redeemer liveth.
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1787 - 1874 (87 years)