Outagamie County WI Archives Biographies.....Fuller, Sarah McNeill 1842 - 1876
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Author: J. F. Fuller

Mrs. Sarah McNeill Fuller.

THE mention of this familiar name will recall to all who knew her, the sweet,
responsive face, and magnetic personality of the subject of this brief sketch.

    Sarah A. McNeill united with the church on confession of faith. Feb. 1st,
1857, at the age of fifteen, and continued nineteen years, to the end of her
life, untiring in her devotion to all its interests. In the Sunday school as
scholar, and later as teacher, in the choir, and in the meetings for prayer,
especially the cottage prayer gatherings, her place was always filled; and in
all the social activities of the church she was an earnest worker and a wise
adviser. Our personal acquaintance, as her pastor's wife, began in the autumn of
1858, when, stranger in a strange land, we were guests for a time in the home of
her parents. It was a numerous household, including students in the College, and
others outside of the immediate family, affording ample opportunity for the
cultivation of those admirable qualities which enriched and beautified all her
life of usefulness in after years, patience, sincerity, conscientious adherance
to her sense of right, and Christian charity. She was a loving, considerate
daughter, a helpful sister, a sympathetic friend, and a comforter and friend of
children whom she loved. She possessed a vivacious, enthusiastic, joyous
disposition. She was educated at Lawrence university, leaving the college class
in her junior year to engage in teaching.

    She became the wife of J. F. Fuller, Nov. 27th, 1860, and carried into the
new relationship an atmosphere of hospitality and self-sacrificing companionship
which makes home the dearest, sweetest spot on earth, to its inmates not only,
but  to  all  who are privileged to come within its influence. She was a lover
of music and a sweet singer, and rendered efficient aid to her husband, who was
organist and leader of the choir for many years

    Mrs. Fuller was a great sufferer in her last years, and with sweet
submission she entered into her heavenly inheritance Jan. 22d, 1876, a few weeks
after passing the fifteenth anniversary of her marriage.

     "We sit beside the lower feast to-day.
          She at the higher;
      Our voices falter as we bend and pray:
          In the great choir
      Of happy ones she sings and does not tire."
                                      MARY BEECROFT DOE


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
APPLET0N, WIS.

PREPARED FOR THE
SEMI-CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY, DEC. 18, 1900.
BY
J. F. FULLER, A. M., Compiler of the "Fuller" Genealogy.

1850—1900.
APPLETON PRINTING CO.,
APPLETON, WIS.


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