Obituary
The Passing of the Land
Marks
We must again halt in our
journey and note the passing away of another of the last land marks
in the person of Mrs. Samuel Sinden, who with her now aged and
respected husband might be counted among the pioneer settlers of the
County of Norfolk, having settled on a farm in northern
Charlotteville nearly 60 years ago.
After overcoming the
disadvantages all new beginners of those days had to cope with --
clearing away the forest and tilling the new soil, erecting
buildings etc. -- they sold that farm and in the spring of 1870
removed to Walsingham to again engage in the work of clearing and
fitting up another home, which they still held, near the village of
Langton.
Mrs. Sinden was the eldest
daughter of Xenophon and Mary Earle, well and favorably known among
the early settlers of this district, and was a direct descendant of
Ralph Earl, who come from Devonshire, England and settled in Rhode
Island in 1626. His descendants are now scattered over the greater
portion of this continent, the
name of Earle or Earl (both coming from the same source) being found
in every state and nearly every city in the United States and a
goodly number in Canada.
Her grandfather, Jno. Earle,
having come here from New York State as a U. E. Loyalist during the
troublous times following the revolutionary war, when so many
thousands of the most sincere and finest people of the United
States, rather than sever their allegiance to the Crown of England,
where willing to sacrifice their homes and everything dear to them,
and remove to what was then the wilderness of Canada.
Mrs. Sinden, was one of 12
children of whom only four survive her, their names being
Mrs. Jno. Hetherington of North Walsingham,
Mrs. S. F. Lowell of Goshen,
Mrs. John Stage of Albert Lea, Minnesota, and
Charles Earle, her only brother, of Rochester, Minnesota.
Mrs. Sinden was a life long
active member of the regular Baptist church, and will be greatly
missed by the members of the church at Langton.
She always took an active
interest in all the different classes of work carried on by
that body since its organization over 30 years ago; even in her last
moments giving advice and hearing most brilliant evidence of the
effects of such a life, she entreated her relatives and friends as
she could not longer stay with them, to meet her in that promised
land where sorrow does not enter and parting is not known.
Her bereaved husband and
family have the heart-felt sympathy of the community in the loss of
a most loving wife and mother, who. vigorous in both mind and body,
was ever on the alert as a sentinel, guarding her family by example
and advice from the dangers that are ever in the path of the young,
and the unwary during the journey of this life.
Now that she is gone and her
voice can no longer be heard may her noble example stand out as a
beacon light and a guide to those who are left behind, ever exerting
a moral and Christianizing influence on the lives of all who knew
her.
