Roxana Chamberlain Hoyt - Ellenburg, NY
I found this obituary clipping in my g-g-grandmother's bible. Roxana was her granddaughter's mother-in-law.
Roxana A. Chamberlain was born in Canada in 1820 and died in Ellenburgh, NY, Dec. 4th, 1894.
She made Ellenburgh her home in 1834, and in 1835 became the wife of NathanielHoyt. One daughter and three sons were the fruit of this union, whose names were Elizabeth M., Nathaniel C., George W. and Thomas T. Elizabeth died in Chicago in 1870; Nathaniel C. was a soldier and died at Harper's Ferry, WV, in 1863; Thomas T. died in 1867; George W. is still living in Chicago, IL.
Mrs. Hoyt had been a member of the ME church for 40 years, and through those years demonstrating by her life the sincerity of her faith. For years she was an invalid, and unable to attend public worship, but cheerfully contributed of her means for the support of the church of her choice.
She was an obligating neighbor, a faithful friend and a kind and indulgent mother. Of the sixty years of her Ellenburgh life, nearly all were passed beneath the same roof-tree. There her children were born and nurtured; there her companion closed his earthly pilgrimage; there, too, an infant grand-daughter, whom death had deprived of a mother, was received with open arms and loving heart by grand-ma, who proved a second mother.
Her funeral was largely attended, her son, George W. (whose unremitting care for his mother is worthy of all praise) and her grand-daughter, Mrs. Wm. H. Dengate, were the only near relatives in attendance.
The weary pilgrim has at last entered into that rest which remaineth for the children of God.