The
subject of this brief memoir was born in the year 1803, near the village
of St. Williams, in the county of Norfolk. She was the daughter of Thomas
and Frances Price, and being early brought under religious influence she
was converted to God when sixteen years of age.
From that time she continued to
wield an influence for good, and in her home, among her associates, and
everywhere her life proved the "power of God unto Salvation."
Some few years after this she was
united in marriage to her late husband, Ephraim Tisdale, and in company
with him she removed to the township of Charlotteville, near the present
village of Walsh. Here her entire life was changed as she had new
acquaintances to form and new friends to win; but her unbounded faith in
Christ, her quiet, inoffensive life, and her broad charity for all soon
won for her friends, in whose esteem and love she continued to grow as
long as she lived.
She united in Christian fellowship
with the first Methodist class formed in their neighborhood, when the
people of God met in Munro's schoolhouse to worship. In the year 1856, when the new
brick church was erected near this village (Walsh), and the society
transferred to this place she came with them and remained a faithful and
consistent member until the last.
Her last illness was a severe
though brief one, and almost entirely unlooked for by her friends, but
amid all she manifested the Christian's characteristic forbearance and
meekness, and seemed to be conscious that the end was drawing near. When
at last she was summoned "home" it was but to leave undoubted
evidence that she had gone to enjoy the company of the blood-washed and
redeemed.
She died January 3rd, 1887, at the
good old age of eighty-five years, and her remains were interred in the
Woodhouse cemetery by the side of her late husband's. A large circle of
friends resignedly mourn her departure, and among her sons are a
practising physician, a minister of the American Methodist Connexion, and Col.
D. Tisdale, the M.P. elect for the South Riding of Norfolk. -- W. W.
Baer, Christian Guardian.
