Obituary printed in the Erie Times-News [Erie, PA] on Tuesday, April 9, 1918:
Edinboro friends were shocked to hear of the sudden death of Mrs. H. S. Amidon, which occurred at her home on West Market street, early Wednesday evening. She was about her household duties when a stroke of paralysis caused her death.
Before her marriage she was Miss Marian Edith Caufman, the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Caufman. She was born at Fairview, Pa., on January 19th, 1852. On December 1st, 1873, at the age of 21, she was unified in marriage to Horace Smith Amidon.
They first lived at McLane, later at Drakes Mills, and in 1886 they came to Edinboro, Pa., where they spent the remainder of their lives. Six children were born to that union, four of which are still living: Mrs. J. A. Reynolds, Edinboro, Pa., Mrs. W. W. Colvin, Silvercreek, N. Y., H. Clair Amidon, Oneida, N. Y., and Mrs. R. B. Herrick, Erie, Pa. Of her father's family three sisters, Misses Josephine, Della and Carrie; two brothers, James and George Caufman, Girard, Pa. These with her immediate family are left to mourn her absence. On March 11th, 1918, occurred the death of her husband after long illness. The strain of this long vigil had so taxed her vitality that she easily succumbed to the stroke from which she died.
Mrs. Amidon was a true and faithful wife, a wise and loving mother. She was a woman of splendid Christian character, having endeared herself to all whose pleasure it was to know her. The one thing about her character which has been such an inspiration to her friends and has called forth so much of kindly sentiment was her bright spirit and happy attitude toward all persons under all circumstances. She was a woman we were always glad to meet. We shall miss her from our church, for she has been a faithful and true member of the Edinboro Baptist church for almost thirty years. We shall also miss her from our social gatherings and most of all from our daily lives in their ordinary intercourse, but we know that God wanted her over there to behold his glory, for this he has told us is his will concerning his own, and has granted her last and most sincere desire to see him face to face and to be with her beloved husband who only preceded her to the land of eternal sunshine and song by the brief space of three weeks.
Obituary printed in the Erie Times-News [Erie, PA] on Tuesday, April 9, 1918:
Edinboro friends were shocked to hear of the sudden death of Mrs. H. S. Amidon, which occurred at her home on West Market street, early Wednesday evening. She was about her household duties when a stroke of paralysis caused her death.
Before her marriage she was Miss Marian Edith Caufman, the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Caufman. She was born at Fairview, Pa., on January 19th, 1852. On December 1st, 1873, at the age of 21, she was unified in marriage to Horace Smith Amidon.
They first lived at McLane, later at Drakes Mills, and in 1886 they came to Edinboro, Pa., where they spent the remainder of their lives. Six children were born to that union, four of which are still living: Mrs. J. A. Reynolds, Edinboro, Pa., Mrs. W. W. Colvin, Silvercreek, N. Y., H. Clair Amidon, Oneida, N. Y., and Mrs. R. B. Herrick, Erie, Pa. Of her father's family three sisters, Misses Josephine, Della and Carrie; two brothers, James and George Caufman, Girard, Pa. These with her immediate family are left to mourn her absence. On March 11th, 1918, occurred the death of her husband after long illness. The strain of this long vigil had so taxed her vitality that she easily succumbed to the stroke from which she died.
Mrs. Amidon was a true and faithful wife, a wise and loving mother. She was a woman of splendid Christian character, having endeared herself to all whose pleasure it was to know her. The one thing about her character which has been such an inspiration to her friends and has called forth so much of kindly sentiment was her bright spirit and happy attitude toward all persons under all circumstances. She was a woman we were always glad to meet. We shall miss her from our church, for she has been a faithful and true member of the Edinboro Baptist church for almost thirty years. We shall also miss her from our social gatherings and most of all from our daily lives in their ordinary intercourse, but we know that God wanted her over there to behold his glory, for this he has told us is his will concerning his own, and has granted her last and most sincere desire to see him face to face and to be with her beloved husband who only preceded her to the land of eternal sunshine and song by the brief space of three weeks.
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