OBITUARY: Ellen Jane (Hartwell) Skinner; Westford, Otsego co., NY
surname: Hartwell, Skinner

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Obituary of:     ELLEN JANE HARTWELL SKINNER

Northern Christian Advocate - July 21, 1887

Mrs. Ellen Jane SKINNER, wife of Mr. John R. SKINNER, died of measles at her
home in Westford, Otsego County, New York, March _0, 1887.  She was the
daughter of the venerable Rev. Joseph HARTWELL, of the Wyoming Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was born at Fabius, Onondaga County, New
York, August 20, 1843.  Her married life was exceptionally happy and
beautiful.  To Mr. SKINNER she bore four children, three of whom now survive
her--young people of prominent position in the church and society of Westford. 
She became a Christian early in life, holding steadily to the faith all along
the years, her experience deepening and leading to greater activity and
usefulness more latterly in her life.  She was distinguished for natural
strength of mind and character, and added to this were intellectual and heart
acquirements which made her opinion valuable and her profession trustworthy. 
She was a tower of strength to her husband and children.  Her home was the
scene where her qualities were displayed to the best advantage.  Personally
she was a woman of rare presence; socially she was genial and interesting. 
Mrs. SKINNER was an efficient worker in the Sunday school.  At the time of her
death she had the care of a class of boys to whom she had become greatly
endeared.  Her death was a shock to the community--she had been so recently in
the congregation and out in society.  She was so usually well and active, and
had been such a short time sick.  It was a disease not commonly regarded as
fatal.  But by an ordering past finding out, she went thus untimely the way of
all the Earth, leaving friends, but for the grace of God, well-nigh
inconsolable.  Her life was a blessing, her death, after all, a grand event,
her immortality undoubtedly blissful.  Her surviving relatives are followed by
sincerest sympathy of a host of friends.  She and her husband are buried at
Maple Grove Cemetery, Worcester, Otsego County, New York.          
Rev. Benjamin P. RIPLEY