This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6233 Message Board Post: SOPHIA HUFF A pall of sorrow spread over Belfast as it was learned that Sophia HUFF had passed away on Wednesday morning, November 8, 1939. Sophia HUFF was born May 17th, 1870, in Rochester, New York. She was the wife of the late Wm. Leroy HUFF and resided in Allen until 1927, when she removed to Belfast and lived here until the time of her death. Mrs. HUFF had been in poor health for several years, was a woman of sterling character and up to the time of her illness had taken an active part in religious and social affairs. Gracious, cultured and sympathetic, a kind neighbor, devoted mother and true friend and withal a courageous woman meeting the sorrows of life with the same sweet spirit that has won the love and esteem of all with whom she has been associated. Mrs. Huff was a member of the Methodist Church, O.E.S. No. 365, of Caneadea, and of a Missionary Society in Belfast. Surviving are her two sons, Joseph and Lee HUFF, two granddaughters, Dorothy and Janice, a niece, Miss Rose SCHUKNECHT all of Belfast, and one sister, Mrs. Louisa GILLESPIE of Appleton, Wis., also several nieces and nephews. God has called her home in the fullness of years and altho kindred and friends were very dear to her, still her thoughts were, "Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is, let me know how frail I am." The funeral was largely attended and held from her late home on Chestnut Street, at 2 o'clock, Saturday afternoon, Nov. 11, 1939. Loving hands provided many beautiful flowers. May it be the privilege of many more in the coming years to know that their loved ones loved Him who died for them. [Northern Allegany Observer obituary, transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from Cora Lahr's scrapbooks, Fillmore, NY]