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Name |
Welch, Alice M. |
Genealogy ID |
94138 |
Born |
22 AUG 1851 |
Birthplace |
Armenia, Bradford PA |
Deceased |
21 JAN 1874 |
Cemetery |
Prospect Cemetery |
Education |
Harford Soldiers Orphans School Mansfield State Normal School 1870 |
Occupation |
Teacher |
Father |
Edwin Herrick Welch |
Mother |
Serepta Elizabeth Burnham |
Reference |
Obit |
Notes |
WELCH, Alice M. [SRGP 94138] Alice M. Welch, a notice of whose death appeared in last weeks issue, was born near Troy, Bradford County, Aug. 22, 1851, and until she reached her tenth year never attended school, her education, prior to that time, having been under the supervision of her mother. At the age of fourteen, she entered the S.O. School at Harford, where, by the integrity and uprightness of her character, and her proficiency in attainments, she so far won the confidence of the Principal, that he placed her in the position of teacher several months previous to the attainments of her sixteenth year. When she had been for a period of nearly three years connected with the school, Mr. Deans [the Principal] said of her publicly Alice Welch, in her relations to this school as pupil and teacher, has never, in a single instance, deviated from the strictest rule of propriety, never given cause for reproach or reproof. We have found her always on hand for duty, and faithful to every trust. Nor was she held in less esteem by the Matron Mrs. Sterling - who not only spoke of her in the highest terms of praise, but treated her with that respect and tender consideration, which even the promptings of a mother's heart would scarcely have excelled. But no confidence shown, or preference manifested, brought to her any lifting up, or vanity of feeling. She maintained the same modest unobtrusiveness of manner, the same distrustfulness of self. It was while a pupil in this school that she sought and found that Saviour whose presence so triumphantly sustained her in the last trying hour. She united with the M.E. Church in Harford, subsequently joining by letter the church of the same faith of this place. She entered the State Normal School at Mansfield as a student in the fall of 68, where, for two years, she maintained an upright deportment of character, and creditable standing in her classes, passing satisfactorily the ordeal of the final examination, and graduated with honor in the Class of 70. In September following she returned to Harford as teacher, and here, during the terrible epidemic of malignant typhoid which prevailed during the winter, was laid the foundation of disease. Nights of watching in the poisoned air of the sick chamber, succeeded by days of toil and care in the schoolroom, were too much for a frame at best too frail, and she returned to her home with the fountain of life too deeply sapped ever again to resume its wonted vigor. Unwilling to submit to inaction and disease, she continued to teach when prudence said --- forbear! closing her final term in August last. Returning home she said, I am tired, and a wail of agony swept through the soul of the listener, with the fear that that weariness must increase until the hands were folded in their final rest; and thus it has proven. She was intelligent, refined, amiable, excelling in these qualities which most highly adorn a woman; but, better than all, she was a Christian. This was the wellspring to her pure life this the Rock of Anchor on which she so securely rested while closing lifes short journey. Of her sufferings, which were very great, she said: They bring me nearer to Jesus, and I am willing to suffer to be brought near to him. She expressed an earnest desire that young people would give more attention to religion, and of a loved one in her last moments, asked, What would I do now without God to go to! When the strange, unearthly chill stole oer her frame, she said, I am dying, but I am not alone, Jesus is with me. Then after words of parting to the stricken ones, not forgetting the absent, and assurances of her own unshaken trust in God, with folded arms she slept to awaken on the Eternal Shore. Who, that witnessed in her life, sickness, and death, the unquestioning proof of the reality in the consolations of religion, but would choose the Saviour she had chosen, that they too might go, not alone. when earthly friends can go no farther? Mansfield Advertiser, PA, 4 February 1874, Wednesday, p.3 |
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Relationships |
Brother Alba Burnham Welch operated Steam Laundry in Mansfield. |
