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- from "The Glens Falls Daily Times", 27 Dec 1881 (fultonhistory.com)
An event we are called upon to chronicle this morning - the sudden death of Mrs. Marvin C. Palmer - is unquestionably the saddest item of news to relate that we have known in the city during our three years' experience in the newspaper business. An estimable, attractive, lovely young wife has passed from this earth to a home above, leaving behind a heartbroken husband, a grief-stricken family, and, saddest of all, a sweet little babe that will never know the fond tenderness of a mother's love. Her sun has gone down while it is yet noon, but the good she has done this world will ever shine, and the record that survives to keep her memory green is such as you - yes, very few - women of the age of the lamented Mrs. Palmer leave behind. No wonder that the news yesterday morning of her sudden demise cast a Gloom over the entire community, and has come home to all with a sense of personal bereavement. Such an announcement is certainly well calculated to invoke sympathy, especially when so lovely a woman is the unfortunate victim of the searching Hand of Death.
Lydia Estelle Pockman was born at East Greenbush twenty-six years ago the sixth day of last February. Her parents are John P. Pockman and Elmira Pockman. She has three brothers and a sister living. The two older brothers are married. One of them, who resides at Greenville, N.J., was married only two weeks ago. All of the above named relatives arrived in the city last night and proceeded at once to the home of the late Mrs. Palmer, No. 62 Bay street. The sickness of this estimable woman was a very short duration. She was confined to her bed but 30 hours. Her death occurred yesterday morning at two o'clock. The funeral service will be held from her late residence Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock. The Rev. A.J. Fennell, of the First Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Deceased and her husband were both members of that church. The memory of this beautiful and good woman will never die out. Her charity was broad, like the lands of the earth; her love was deep like it's waters. Faith, bright and steadfast, never left her until it was lost forever in the glad sight of her Father's home. That a universally beloved woman has passed away is the feeling of ??? and to her husband, the bereaved family and innocent little one, the above ??? - appreciative and sympathetic- are inscribed. May God give them courage to bear their affliction, which is great.
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1855 - 1881 (26 years)
