JANE E. CHAUDOIN Died, in the county of Goochland, on the 29th December 1841, Mrs. Jane E. Chaudoin, consort of Lewis Chaudoin, Jr., after an illness of about 7 months, which she bore with Christian fortitude and patience. Mrs. Chaudoin was for ten years a strict member of the Licking Hole Baptist Church, though for some years she but seldom had it in her power to attend the house of God for worship--which was to her a source of deep regret. During her illness she frequently talked with her husband about the old state of the church, and said there was too little love among the brethren for the Lord's cause to prosper--and that professors were too much after the fashions of this world, and too little after those of Christ. She often conversed with her husband on the subject of death and eternity; she said if it was the Lord's will that she should recover she would be glad to be spared a few years to see her children nearer the years of maturity; yet she wished the will of the Lord to be done, and that she lay in the hands of the Lord as clay in the potter's hands. She said she believed, if it was the Lord's will to take her, that he would manifest himself unto her as he doeth not unto the world. On the Sabbath evening before she died on Monday morning, she became sensible that her departure was near at hand, she asked her husband what he would do with the children--and asked him if he was willing to give her up; then called to another person, a by-stander, saying, are you ready to go? and to another, by name, exhorting him to meet her in Heaven; and asked if there was no sinners there--for she wished to talk with everybody--then put up an earnest prayer to God to bless her husband, and that he might bring his children up in the right way--and prayed for strength to talk more, and repeated a few verses, not recollected well enough to be named, as the family was in tears and trouble. After her strength was nearly exhausted, she took her husband and his sister by the hands and bid them farewell. She said but little more during the night, only asking for these things she wanted, such as teas and c. to moisten her mouth. In the course of the night, she said to her kind brother who came in to sit up with her, don't you think I am going home fast? -- and praised and rejoiced in God her Savior, saying glory to God and the Lamb forever. A few minutes before she departed, while the company were at breakfast, she told her husband that she had given herself up entirely to the Lord and that she trusted him alone and that he must truste alone in the Lord for salvation--and that if we would receive of him we must ask in faith; for, said she I have never asked in faith, but he has given. In a shor time, she breathed her last. She has left behind her a kind husband and ten small children to bemoan their loss; but thanks be to God, their loss to her gain. He is led to say, the Lord gave and the Lord taketh away - blessed be the name of the Lord, for he doeth all things. (Source: "The Religious Herald," February 10, 1842: Obituary: Jane E. Chaudoin)