Newspaper: unknown
IN MEMORIAM
Anna M. OLMSTEAD died November 9, 1896, in the old homestead where she had lived for upwards of three-quarters of a century, in the eighty-fourth year of her age. When a mere child she came with her parents from the ancestral Connecticut home, and after four years of residence in Genesee county found a new home in Albion in the year 1820. The county which then had advanced little beyond a wilderness, she lived to see transformed into a garden. Her maiden name was Anna M. SPENCER, and she married David R. OLMSTEAD, by whom she had several children, all of whom died in infancy, except Seymour (Truman Seymour OLMSTEAD), so well and honorably known in our community. The married life was a happy one, and indeed no circle in which she was a prominent figure could be otherwise. Her simple, thrifty habits bequeathed by her New England parentage, her sympathetic, helpful spirit; her quiet and unostentatious manners, charmed all who came within the radius of her influence:
And her eyes
An out door sign of all the warmth within,
Smiled with her lips.
She was pronounced and independent in her opinions, yet always tolerant toward those of different convictions. In early life she adopted the Universalist faith, in which she found strength, comfort and hope to the end. She lived to enjoy the great happiness of holding grandchildren in her arms, and at last, as a shock of corn cometh in his season, full of years and goodness was gathered unto her fathers.
(Interment in Mt. Albion Cemetery)
(Note: Anna was the daughter of Alban and Abigail GRISWALD SPENCER. The names of her children who died in infancy were William, Ebenezer and Omer.)
(From a scrapbook of newspaper clippings belonging to Ella Holmes Ross)
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IN MEMORIAM
Anna M. OLMSTEAD died November 9, 1896, in the old homestead where she had lived for upwards of three-quarters of a century, in the eighty-fourth year of her age. When a mere child she came with her parents from the ancestral Connecticut home, and after four years of residence in Genesee county found a new home in Albion in the year 1820. The county which then had advanced little beyond a wilderness, she lived to see transformed into a garden. Her maiden name was Anna M. SPENCER, and she married David R. OLMSTEAD, by whom she had several children, all of whom died in infancy, except Seymour (Truman Seymour OLMSTEAD), so well and honorably known in our community. The married life was a happy one, and indeed no circle in which she was a prominent figure could be otherwise. Her simple, thrifty habits bequeathed by her New England parentage, her sympathetic, helpful spirit; her quiet and unostentatious manners, charmed all who came within the radius of her influence:
And her eyes
An out door sign of all the warmth within,
Smiled with her lips.
She was pronounced and independent in her opinions, yet always tolerant toward those of different convictions. In early life she adopted the Universalist faith, in which she found strength, comfort and hope to the end. She lived to enjoy the great happiness of holding grandchildren in her arms, and at last, as a shock of corn cometh in his season, full of years and goodness was gathered unto her fathers.
(Interment in Mt. Albion Cemetery)
(Note: Anna was the daughter of Alban and Abigail GRISWALD SPENCER. The names of her children who died in infancy were William, Ebenezer and Omer.)
(From a scrapbook of newspaper clippings belonging to Ella Holmes Ross)
Information from NYGenweb site
Newspaper: unknown
IN MEMORIAM
Anna M. OLMSTEAD died November 9, 1896, in the old homestead where she had lived for upwards of three-quarters of a century, in the eighty-fourth year of her age. When a mere child she came with her parents from the ancestral Connecticut home, and after four years of residence in Genesee county found a new home in Albion in the year 1820. The county which then had advanced little beyond a wilderness, she lived to see transformed into a garden. Her maiden name was Anna M. SPENCER, and she married David R. OLMSTEAD, by whom she had several children, all of whom died in infancy, except Seymour (Truman Seymour OLMSTEAD), so well and honorably known in our community. The married life was a happy one, and indeed no circle in which she was a prominent figure could be otherwise. Her simple, thrifty habits bequeathed by her New England parentage, her sympathetic, helpful spirit; her quiet and unostentatious manners, charmed all who came within the radius of her influence:
And her eyes
An out door sign of all the warmth within,
Smiled with her lips.
She was pronounced and independent in her opinions, yet always tolerant toward those of different convictions. In early life she adopted the Universalist faith, in which she found strength, comfort and hope to the end. She lived to enjoy the great happiness of holding grandchildren in her arms, and at last, as a shock of corn cometh in his season, full of years and goodness was gathered unto her fathers.
(Interment in Mt. Albion Cemetery)
(Note: Anna was the daughter of Alban and Abigail GRISWALD SPENCER. The names of her children who died in infancy were William, Ebenezer and Omer.)
(From a scrapbook of newspaper clippings belonging to Ella Holmes Ross)
Information from NYGenweb site
IN MEMORIAM
Anna M. OLMSTEAD died November 9, 1896, in the old homestead where she had lived for upwards of three-quarters of a century, in the eighty-fourth year of her age. When a mere child she came with her parents from the ancestral Connecticut home, and after four years of residence in Genesee county found a new home in Albion in the year 1820. The county which then had advanced little beyond a wilderness, she lived to see transformed into a garden. Her maiden name was Anna M. SPENCER, and she married David R. OLMSTEAD, by whom she had several children, all of whom died in infancy, except Seymour (Truman Seymour OLMSTEAD), so well and honorably known in our community. The married life was a happy one, and indeed no circle in which she was a prominent figure could be otherwise. Her simple, thrifty habits bequeathed by her New England parentage, her sympathetic, helpful spirit; her quiet and unostentatious manners, charmed all who came within the radius of her influence:
And her eyes
An out door sign of all the warmth within,
Smiled with her lips.
She was pronounced and independent in her opinions, yet always tolerant toward those of different convictions. In early life she adopted the Universalist faith, in which she found strength, comfort and hope to the end. She lived to enjoy the great happiness of holding grandchildren in her arms, and at last, as a shock of corn cometh in his season, full of years and goodness was gathered unto her fathers.
(Interment in Mt. Albion Cemetery)
(Note: Anna was the daughter of Alban and Abigail GRISWALD SPENCER. The names of her children who died in infancy were William, Ebenezer and Omer.)
(From a scrapbook of newspaper clippings belonging to Ella Holmes Ross)
Information from NYGenweb site
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