Three known children Edna Goodnow, Helen Inez [Nellie] Falkenbury married George Washburn and Smith Falkenbury.
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OBITUARY. FALKENBURY.
"Again we are called to behold the narrow house appointed for all living, the grave, in that in peace, which the world cannot give, sleep the unnumbered dead. Stones and lettered monuments symbolize the affection of surviving friends, yet no sound proceeds from them save that silent, but thrilling admonition: Seek ye the straight and narrow way that lends unto eternal life."
On Tuesday last the remains of Mrs. Azel Falkenbury were borne to their last resting place- there to await the Master's calling. Mrs. Falkenbury died Sunday afternoon November 11. Mrs. Falkenbury, whose maiden name was Greer, was born in Wells, Vt., November 26, 1828, and was married in 1850, to Owen Goodnow, who died a few years later. On May 24, 1857, she was united in marriage to Azel Falkenbury, now one of the oldest and most respected citizens of the town, who with two daughters, Mrs. George Washburn and Mrs. Otis Chadwick survive her.
Mrs. Falkenbury was a Christian woman and died as she had lived - a firm believer in her religious views. Nearly all the forty three years of her married life had been spent at the place where she died, the home she loved so well. There she had seen her children grow to womanhood and there the children have loved to climb upon grandmother's knee and listen to stories 'till fast asleep, but now:
"That dear, voice is stilled, ...truncated.
Obituary taken from The Whitehall Times, Whitehall, NY, dated 15 Nov 1900, pg. 1.
Added by: New York State Old Cemetery Conservancy on 1 Apr 2022
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For further information on the Falkenbury families look to National Assoc. of Van Valkenburg[h] navvf.org
Three known children Edna Goodnow, Helen Inez [Nellie] Falkenbury married George Washburn and Smith Falkenbury.
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OBITUARY. FALKENBURY.
"Again we are called to behold the narrow house appointed for all living, the grave, in that in peace, which the world cannot give, sleep the unnumbered dead. Stones and lettered monuments symbolize the affection of surviving friends, yet no sound proceeds from them save that silent, but thrilling admonition: Seek ye the straight and narrow way that lends unto eternal life."
On Tuesday last the remains of Mrs. Azel Falkenbury were borne to their last resting place- there to await the Master's calling. Mrs. Falkenbury died Sunday afternoon November 11. Mrs. Falkenbury, whose maiden name was Greer, was born in Wells, Vt., November 26, 1828, and was married in 1850, to Owen Goodnow, who died a few years later. On May 24, 1857, she was united in marriage to Azel Falkenbury, now one of the oldest and most respected citizens of the town, who with two daughters, Mrs. George Washburn and Mrs. Otis Chadwick survive her.
Mrs. Falkenbury was a Christian woman and died as she had lived - a firm believer in her religious views. Nearly all the forty three years of her married life had been spent at the place where she died, the home she loved so well. There she had seen her children grow to womanhood and there the children have loved to climb upon grandmother's knee and listen to stories 'till fast asleep, but now:
"That dear, voice is stilled, ...truncated.
Obituary taken from The Whitehall Times, Whitehall, NY, dated 15 Nov 1900, pg. 1.
Added by: New York State Old Cemetery Conservancy on 1 Apr 2022
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For further information on the Falkenbury families look to National Assoc. of Van Valkenburg[h] navvf.org
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