OBIT: Amelia HENDERSON, 1872, St. Clairsville, Bedford County, PA

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HENDERSON - At St. Clairsville, Bedford county, Pa., on the 3 inst., 
after a lingering sickness of dropsy, Mrs. Amelia, wife of Judge B. B. 
Henderson, aged forty-four years, seven months and nineteen days.  Mrs. 
Henderson united with the First Presbyterian church of Hollidaysburg on 
the first Sabbath of June 1849.  At the time of her death, and for 
several years, she was a member of the church of Schellsburg, of which 
her husband is an elder.  For over twenty-three years she was an 
earnest exemplary Christian.  She loved the sanctuary, her house was 
the home of the ministers of God.  For her to live was Christ, and to 
die was gain.  Though she suffered much during her illness, yet she 
found in Jesus a constant and sufficient friend.  She died as she had 
lived, trusting alone in the merits of her dear Redeemer.  Three 
children in infancy had preceded her to their and her home on high.  
Two grown sons and a husband, all members of the same church with which 
she was connected, survive of her family to mourn her death.  A crowded 
church of relatives, neighbors and acquaintances showed their sympathy 
and  respect on the day of her funeral.  The Rev. R. F. Wilson, of 
Bedford, conducted the solemn services.  "Let me die the death of the 
righteous."

The Register, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, September 1, 1872