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Author: J. F. Fuller

Mrs. Susan R. Page.

THE subject of the following sketch, Mrs. Susan R. Page, united with this church
by letter from the Presbyterian church at Sandwich, Ill., April 14th, 1863, and
passed away Aug. 24th, 1885.

    Through the courtesy of the writer, Mrs. Mary A. P. Stansbury, we are
permitted to use the following, which was printed soon after the death of Mrs.
Page and beautifully portrays the varied excellencies of her life.

     "Mrs. Page was the daughter of James G. and Susan Redfield. Her life as a
child and maiden was spent at Delhi, N. Y., where it is tenderly remembered. She
early became a Christian, and united with the Presbyterian church, of which her
parents were members. "She married Dr. M. F. Page, Sept. 24th, 1849, and coming
West, spent several years at Sandwich, Ill. She came to Appleton early in 1863,
and for more than twenty years has made this city her home and has been
identified with all that is best in its social and church life. Those who knew
her most intimately could only wonder at the strength of soul, which, overcoming
her extreme physical frailty, was not confined within the limits of her own
cherished and attractive home, but flowed outward, with pure and steady impulse,
into so many channels of Christian activity and benevolence. Her entire nature
was symmetrically developed. To keen, intellectual perceptions, refined culture,
quick, discriminating sympathy, and a tender affection, she united a rare
maturity of judgment and an unbending firmness of moral conviction.

    She united with the First Congregational church of Appleton, to which she
became devotedly attached, bringing to the furtherance of its varied interests,
not only a helping hand, but the courage of unfaltering faith and the divine
energy of prayer. She was an unwearied worker in the Sunday school, where her
beautiful qualities of mind and heart impressed themselves indelibly upon those
under her charge, and was intensely interested in the work of the Woman's
Missionary Society, of which she had been for years the faithful secretary. She
was not less prominent in connection with other undenominational, reformatory,
and benevolent organizations. She was at one time president of the Woman's
Temperance Society, and for several years held a similar office in the Ladies'
Relief Association of the city. Her sympathetic, painstaking and judicious labor
in behalf of the poor cannot be too highly estimated. Indeed, in her capacity
for comprehending the individuality of those whom she wished to assist, lay her
rare power of helpfulness.

    The ladies of the 'Literary Club,' of which her refined, critical taste and
endearing social qualities made her so valuable a member, have to mourn in her
death the first sad break in their number.

     In the weakness and suffering of the last days, her calm patience and
childlike trust never faltered, and among her last efforts at speech were
expressions of delicate and loving consideration of others. No stronger proof of
immortality could have been given the watchers at her bedside than the clear
mental and spiritual vision which survived the failure of her bodily powers
almost until the very moment when the strong, free, loving spirit passed to him
who gave it."


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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