Lucretia Woolsey (1709-1812) Chamberlin (b. 1709; Ringoes, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA) - d. January 15, 1812; Amwell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA)
Marriage:
She married Lewis Chamberlin (1710-1772) and they had eleven children.
Death:
She died of senile dementia, most likely Alzheimer's.
Obituary:
"Died — on the 15th ultimo mense in the township of Amwell, New Jersey, Mrs. Lucretia Chamberlin, aged, 103. Her husband, Lewis Chamberlin, Esq. preceded her almost half a century in his departure to the eternal world. She had been a worthy member of the first Baptist Church, in Hopewell, for nearly seventy years. About the ninetieth year of her she was, at some times, heard to complain that she had become a stranger, in the world — that a new generation who knew her not had risen up to fill the earth. She fie. I frequently lamented that all the associates of her youth had gone home and left her behind, and that her own summons to the grave was so long delayed. After this period her reasoning faculties rapidly failed — her memory finally became inadequate to embrace more than a few seconds of time. During the last three or four years of her life, pain and sorrow seemed particularly to mark her for their own; she had no rest day nor night, Providence protracted her distresses to a very late hour. She seemed to be as a monument of antiquity created and maintained by the eternal band, to instruct by her own example, her children and descendants down to the third and fourth generation, the benefits of temperance and righteousness — the sorrows of human life — the end of all living."
Tombstone:
Her tombstone reads: "Buried on Homestead Farm, East Amwell Township."
.∼The wife of Judge Lewis Chamberlin. The headstone is located in a family plot at the Flemington Baptist Church Cemetery in Flemington, NJ, however she and Lewis are both buried in East Amwell Twsp on the Homestead Farm.
Marriage:
She married Lewis Chamberlin (1710-1772) and they had eleven children.
Death:
She died of senile dementia, most likely Alzheimer's.
Obituary:
"Died — on the 15th ultimo mense in the township of Amwell, New Jersey, Mrs. Lucretia Chamberlin, aged, 103. Her husband, Lewis Chamberlin, Esq. preceded her almost half a century in his departure to the eternal world. She had been a worthy member of the first Baptist Church, in Hopewell, for nearly seventy years. About the ninetieth year of her she was, at some times, heard to complain that she had become a stranger, in the world — that a new generation who knew her not had risen up to fill the earth. She fie. I frequently lamented that all the associates of her youth had gone home and left her behind, and that her own summons to the grave was so long delayed. After this period her reasoning faculties rapidly failed — her memory finally became inadequate to embrace more than a few seconds of time. During the last three or four years of her life, pain and sorrow seemed particularly to mark her for their own; she had no rest day nor night, Providence protracted her distresses to a very late hour. She seemed to be as a monument of antiquity created and maintained by the eternal band, to instruct by her own example, her children and descendants down to the third and fourth generation, the benefits of temperance and righteousness — the sorrows of human life — the end of all living."
Tombstone:
Her tombstone reads: "Buried on Homestead Farm, East Amwell Township."
.∼The wife of Judge Lewis Chamberlin. The headstone is located in a family plot at the Flemington Baptist Church Cemetery in Flemington, NJ, however she and Lewis are both buried in East Amwell Twsp on the Homestead Farm.
Lucretia Woolsey (1709-1812) Chamberlin (b. 1709; Ringoes, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA) - d. January 15, 1812; Amwell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA)
Marriage:
She married Lewis Chamberlin (1710-1772) and they had eleven children.
Death:
She died of senile dementia, most likely Alzheimer's.
Obituary:
"Died — on the 15th ultimo mense in the township of Amwell, New Jersey, Mrs. Lucretia Chamberlin, aged, 103. Her husband, Lewis Chamberlin, Esq. preceded her almost half a century in his departure to the eternal world. She had been a worthy member of the first Baptist Church, in Hopewell, for nearly seventy years. About the ninetieth year of her she was, at some times, heard to complain that she had become a stranger, in the world — that a new generation who knew her not had risen up to fill the earth. She fie. I frequently lamented that all the associates of her youth had gone home and left her behind, and that her own summons to the grave was so long delayed. After this period her reasoning faculties rapidly failed — her memory finally became inadequate to embrace more than a few seconds of time. During the last three or four years of her life, pain and sorrow seemed particularly to mark her for their own; she had no rest day nor night, Providence protracted her distresses to a very late hour. She seemed to be as a monument of antiquity created and maintained by the eternal band, to instruct by her own example, her children and descendants down to the third and fourth generation, the benefits of temperance and righteousness — the sorrows of human life — the end of all living."
Tombstone:
Her tombstone reads: "Buried on Homestead Farm, East Amwell Township."
.∼The wife of Judge Lewis Chamberlin. The headstone is located in a family plot at the Flemington Baptist Church Cemetery in Flemington, NJ, however she and Lewis are both buried in East Amwell Twsp on the Homestead Farm.
Marriage:
She married Lewis Chamberlin (1710-1772) and they had eleven children.
Death:
She died of senile dementia, most likely Alzheimer's.
Obituary:
"Died — on the 15th ultimo mense in the township of Amwell, New Jersey, Mrs. Lucretia Chamberlin, aged, 103. Her husband, Lewis Chamberlin, Esq. preceded her almost half a century in his departure to the eternal world. She had been a worthy member of the first Baptist Church, in Hopewell, for nearly seventy years. About the ninetieth year of her she was, at some times, heard to complain that she had become a stranger, in the world — that a new generation who knew her not had risen up to fill the earth. She fie. I frequently lamented that all the associates of her youth had gone home and left her behind, and that her own summons to the grave was so long delayed. After this period her reasoning faculties rapidly failed — her memory finally became inadequate to embrace more than a few seconds of time. During the last three or four years of her life, pain and sorrow seemed particularly to mark her for their own; she had no rest day nor night, Providence protracted her distresses to a very late hour. She seemed to be as a monument of antiquity created and maintained by the eternal band, to instruct by her own example, her children and descendants down to the third and fourth generation, the benefits of temperance and righteousness — the sorrows of human life — the end of all living."
Tombstone:
Her tombstone reads: "Buried on Homestead Farm, East Amwell Township."
.∼The wife of Judge Lewis Chamberlin. The headstone is located in a family plot at the Flemington Baptist Church Cemetery in Flemington, NJ, however she and Lewis are both buried in East Amwell Twsp on the Homestead Farm.
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