Monroe County PA Archives Obituaries.....Erb Nee Depue, Ann January 6, 1862
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Monroe Democrat, Jan. 16, 1862
Died at Stroudsburg, Pa., January 6th, 1862, Mrs. Ann Erb, aged 81 years.
It is thought that the character and history of the deceased were such as to 
call for something more than a simple announcement of her death.  She was a 
lineal descendant of the Hugernots*.  Her maiden name was Depue.  Her paternal 
ancestor was one of those who after the rivocation* of the Edict of Nantes, for 
the 'faith's sake' left home and fatherland, and went to Holland, sojourning 
there for a time and then emigrating to free America.  His descendants in this 
land continued to manifest love for God's truth and for the ordinance of his 
house.  And it was chiefly thought the zeal and liberality of one of these, the 
grandfather it is believed of the deceased, that more than a hundred years ago, 
there was erected on the hill side that skirts the Shawnee flats, the stone 
church, which was a few years since removed and a neat brick structure placed 
on the old foundation.  To this little church of her fathers, and in the burial 
place of her kindred, close by it her heart clung with peculiar love.  To the 
church organization there she left a legacy large in proportion to the amount 
of her property.  And there in accordance with her oft-repeated request, her 
dust rests now with much of kindred dust.  Of her descent from those who had 
some such noble testimony for Christ and the truth, she was accustomed to speak 
much; not in the spirit of boasting, but of devout thanksgiving to God, that 
she had been so privileged and honored.  And she was not unworthy of such 
ancestry. -Hers was the very Huguenot spirit.  Her disdaguishing* 
characteristic was ardent love for the truth in its purity, and holy abhorrence 
of every form of error; strong desire for the advancement of Christ's kingdom 
and uncompromising hostility to evil in any guise.  And endowed with superior 
intellectual powers, improved by much reading and reflection, and retaining her 
vigor to the last; she was enabled though leading a very retired life and never 
over-stepping those bounds which God's word as well as good taste, assigns to 
woman, to exert a wide influence for good and against evil in the community.  
Chastened by affliction; the world had lost its hold upon her.  Her body the 
prey to a disease which makes death probable at any moment; she lived for years 
in constant expectation of a sudden summons.  And this position on the confines 
of the other world, she accepted gladly; seeming always like one standing on 
the border and looking over joyfully into the “promised land.”  All who were 
permitted to see much of her, felt that to commune with her was to get nearer 
to the Heavenly World.  And so the quiet sleep in which the Lord was pleased to 
call her spirit away, may well be to us a token, that for her, death was but an 
easy and blessed transition into that world.



Additional Comments:
Obituary - Monroe Democrat, Jan. 16, 1862; page 2 columns 5-6
*Spellings as published.
Death notice: In this Borough, on the 6th inst., Mrs. Ann Erb, aged about 81 
years.
Monroe Democrat, Jan. 9, 1862; page 2 column 6



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