This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: gwyllian Surnames: Depue Erb Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.monroe/1176/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Died at Stroudsburg, Pa., January 6th, 1862, Mrs. Ann Erb, aged 81 years. It is thought that the character and history of the deceased were such as to call for something more than a simple announcement of her death. She was a lineal descendant of the Hugernots.- Her maiden name was Depue. Her paternal ancestor was one of those who after the rivocation of the Edict of Nantes, for the 'faith's sake' left home and fatherland, and went to Holland, sojourning there for a time and then emigrating to free America. His descendants in this land continued to manifest love for God's truth and for the ordinance of his house. And it was chiefly thought the zeal and liberality of one of these, the grandfather it is believed of the deceased, that more than a hundred years ago, there was erected on the hill side that skirts the Shawnee flats, the stone church, which was a few years since removed and a neat brick structure placed on the old foundation. To this little church of her fathers, and in the burial place of her kindred, close by it her heart clung wi! th peculiar love. To the church organization there she left a legacy large in proportion to the amount of her property. And there in accordance with her oft-repeated request, her dust rests now with much of kindred dust. Of her descent from those who had some such noble testimony for Christ and the truth, she was accustomed to speak much; not in the spirit of boasting, but of devout thanksgiving to God, that she had been so privileged and honored. And she was not unworthy of such ancestry. -Hers was the very Huguenot spirit. Her disdaguishing characteristic was ardent love for the truth in its purity, and holy abhorrence of every form of error; strong desire for the advancement of Christ's kingdom and uncompromising hostility to evil in any guise. And endowed with superior intellectual powers, improved by much reading and reflection, and retaining her vigor to the last; she was enabled though leading a very retired life and never over-stepping those bounds which God's! word as well as good taste, assigns to woman, to exert a wide influen ce for good and against evil in the community. Chastened by affliction; the world had lost it's hold upon her. Her body the prey to a disease which makes death probable at any moment; she lived for years in constant expectation of a sudden summons. And this position on the confines of the other world, she accepted gladly; seeming always like one standing on the border and looking over joyfully into the "promised land." All who were permitted to see much of her, felt that to commune with her was to get nearer to the Heavenly World. And so the quiet sleep in which the Lord was pleased to call her spirit away, may well be to us a token, that for her, death was but an easy and blessed transition into that world. The Monroe Democrat, publication date January 16, 1862; page 2 columns 5-6. (Stroudsburg, Monroe County, PA.) In this Borough, on the 6th inst., Mrs. Ann Erb, aged about 81 years. The Monroe Democrat, publication date January 9, 1862; page 2 column 6. (Stroudsburg borough Monroe County, PA.) Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.