From The Sabbath Recorder, a newspaper of the Seventh Day Baptist
Church
- POTTER - In Farina, IL Jan. 20, 1892, of abscess, Stanley Z. POTTER,
in the
50th year of his age. He was born Aug. 18, 1842, in the town of Genesee,
Allegany Co., NY, but spent most of his youth up to manhood in Hopkinton, RI,
where in 1866 he married Miss Sarah M. Irish, daughter of the late George
Irish. They moved to Farina in 1868, and two years later both were baptized
and untied with the Farina Church, of which he was a member at the time of
his death. He leaves a wife, a son and a daughter.
From The Sabbath Recorder, a newspaper of the Seventh Day Baptist Church
Mrs. Sarah Potter, widow of the late Stanley Potter of Farina, IL, died at her home in Santa Monica, CA October 25, 1913. She was the daughter of George and Maria Potter Irish and was born at West Genesee, NY July 24, 1843.Mrs. Potter was bereft of a mother when 2 years old and was brought up in
the home of her paternal grandparents, George Irish and Betsy Babcock Irish
of Ashaway, RI. Many friends there will remember her as Sarah Maria Irish.
On April 7, 1866, she was married to Mr. Z. Stanley Potter of that place and
together they went to Farina, IL and made their home. Three children were
born to them: Edwin, who now resides in Los Angeles, CA; Lucy Ann, who grew
to womanhood; and Harold, who died in infancy. Mrs. Potter's husband pased
away in 1892. Her daughter died two years later and her son went out to make
his own way in the world.
Then with broken health and heavy heart Mrs. Potter made her way alone, at
an age when most women desire only quiet and rest. In her girlhood Mrs.
Potter had learned to make wax fruit as fancy work, and now she thought to
turn that early craft to advantage. She possessed a love for the beautiful,
an artist's eye, and faith in her own ability. The Illinois Board of Agriculture gave her an order to make 200 samples in wax of the fruits and vegetables of that State for the world's fair exhibit in Chicago, and she did it well. Michigan also gave her an order for 400 pieces, and on this group she won a world's fair medal for her skill in workmanship as an artist. This with the exhibit is still at the College of Michigan. Later she did much
work for the college at Stores, CT, and also for a like school in IL. Her best work is at the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, Canada. She remained there 8 years, creating in the fruits of her labor a monument that will long keep her in remembrance.. Here, we learn, she won a wide circle of friends, who esteemed her highly not only for her ability but for her conscientious adherence to what she believed was right. Three years ago Mrs. Potter gave up her position and went to CA, and in this far away place she again made new friends who stood by her faithfully in times of neeed.She was baptised at Farina, IL, Feb. 19, 1870, and joined the church there. From that time, throughout her checkered life, she faithfully kept the Sabbath and was true to her convictions of right. Her last days were passed in the Adventist faith.