Anna W. Piper, whose death was announced in the Republican Watchman last week, was born in McDonough, Chenango county, N. Y., Jan. 23d, 1824. In 1852 she married Lewis B. Piper, of Oxford, N. Y., and resided there with him till 1866. In that year Mr. and Mrs. Piper with their children moved to Mongaup Valley. After Mr. Piper's death she made her home with her children until her death, which occurred at the home of her son, Rev. Lewis Piper, in Hurleyville, April 11th, of this year. Mrs. Piper was known and will be remembered for her energy and for her earnest and faithful Christian life. In her early years she taught school, in her native county, twenty-six terms. After her marriage she taught her children with the same zeal that had made her successful in the school room, but the lessons she taught them were the lessons of truthfulness, faith, love, uprightness that pertain to manhood and womanhood. She was converted in her childhood and ever after witnessed a good confession and was true through all the years to the faith and cause of Him whose name she bore and whose cause she loved. Her power in prayer was marvelous and when all else seemed to fail to secure the blessing of God and the salvation of men, her prayers it seemed, would move the heart of God and bring salvation to the people. She died peacefully, full of years and honor, and crowned with love of all who knew her. Four children mourn the loss of mother, and one with her husband, awaited her on the banks of the River of Life. In the Mamakating Valley, at Wurtsboro, beside her husband and son, she sleeps and awaits the resurrection of the just.
--Republican Watchman (Monticello, NY), May 5, 1905
--Republican Watchman (Monticello, NY), May 5, 1905
Anna W. Piper, whose death was announced in the Republican Watchman last week, was born in McDonough, Chenango county, N. Y., Jan. 23d, 1824. In 1852 she married Lewis B. Piper, of Oxford, N. Y., and resided there with him till 1866. In that year Mr. and Mrs. Piper with their children moved to Mongaup Valley. After Mr. Piper's death she made her home with her children until her death, which occurred at the home of her son, Rev. Lewis Piper, in Hurleyville, April 11th, of this year. Mrs. Piper was known and will be remembered for her energy and for her earnest and faithful Christian life. In her early years she taught school, in her native county, twenty-six terms. After her marriage she taught her children with the same zeal that had made her successful in the school room, but the lessons she taught them were the lessons of truthfulness, faith, love, uprightness that pertain to manhood and womanhood. She was converted in her childhood and ever after witnessed a good confession and was true through all the years to the faith and cause of Him whose name she bore and whose cause she loved. Her power in prayer was marvelous and when all else seemed to fail to secure the blessing of God and the salvation of men, her prayers it seemed, would move the heart of God and bring salvation to the people. She died peacefully, full of years and honor, and crowned with love of all who knew her. Four children mourn the loss of mother, and one with her husband, awaited her on the banks of the River of Life. In the Mamakating Valley, at Wurtsboro, beside her husband and son, she sleeps and awaits the resurrection of the just.
--Republican Watchman (Monticello, NY), May 5, 1905
--Republican Watchman (Monticello, NY), May 5, 1905
Inscription
Rev. Lewis B. Piper
Died
Sept. 26, 1874
Aged 54 yrs. & 1 mo.
Servant of God [unreadable]
Thy glorious [unreadable]
The battle's fought, the [unreadable]
And they are crowned at last.
His Wife
Anna W. Pickett
Jan. 23, 1824-Apr. 11, 1905
