"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 37, No 15, p 5, Apr. 14, 1881. Mrs. Eliza A. Lewis, wife of Eld. C. M. Lewis, was the daughter of the late Joshua and Sarah Williams, of Verona, Oneida, Co., N. Y. She was born in this town in 1811, and was one of the eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, who attained to manhood and womanhood, all of whom have now passed the river of death, save one brother, David P. Williams, Esq., of their native town. Sister Lewis was converted in 1829, at the age of eighteen years, and about one year later made a public profession in the ordinance of Christian baptism, administered by the late lamented Eld. Lewis A. Davis, and united with the First Seventh-day Baptist Church of Verona. She was married to Eld. C. M. Lewis in September, 1840. In 1847, she moved to Newport, R. I., with her husband, where they remained two years. Subsequently, they spent four years in the pastorates of the Third or Rockville Church, and four years in the First Seventh-day Baptist Church of Hopkinton, R. I., three and a half years in Brookfield, N. Y., with the First Church, one or more years in the Seventh-day Baptist Church of Walworth, Wis., and six years with the Church at Farina, Ill. Upon all these fields, Sister Lewis was an earnest and efficient worker. In the exercise of her rare gift of song, so strong, clear, musical, and cultured, singing the gospel with great efficiency, and by her power in exhortation so impressive and telling, and her earnest and prevalent manner in prayer; and especially by her Christian life, exemplifying the divinity and power of Christianity, she was not only an efficient and honored reaper in the great harvest, but a great helper and coworker with her husband in the work of the gospel ministry. Never having been strong, and of consumptive tendency, her health has often failed under the strain of earnest work, and repeatedly they have been compelled to leave promising fields, returning to their home in Verona, where she has always, under the influence of its retirement and quiet, rallied. For the past year, her decline has been constant. Ten months since, her husband was called from his work in Nebraska, on account of her illness, and remained with her till the last. On the evening of Sabbath, March 26th, 1881, she quietly and triumphantly passed the chilling tide. A very large congregation of kindred and friends testified their regard on the occasion of her funeral, which occurred March 30th, by their presence and the falling tear. We laid her remains in the beautiful cemetery in sight of the old home to await the resurrection of the just. J. C. "SDB Anniversaries 1881-1885", Gen Conf Minutes Sep 19, 1883, p 14. Rev. Charles M. Lewis was born in Madison county, N. Y., Oct. 27, 1818. His father was a member of the Free-Will Baptist Church of Unadilla Forks. At the age of twelve years he went to live with Amos Burdick, on Plainfield Hill, where he laid the foundation of his deep spiritual character. The next year he made a profession of religion, and joined the First Brookfield Church, and in his earnestness and zeal thereafter, followed the sermon on Sabbath day with a stirring exhortation. January 6, 1839, in his twenty-first year, the Brookfield Church licensed him to preach, and though his early education was limited to the common school and one term in the Cedarville Academy, he was thoroughly versed in God's Word, and developed almost an apostolic eloquence. In the spring of 1839 he was settled at Verona, where he was soon after married and ordained, and then began that blessed series of revival services by which so many hundreds were led to Christ and gathered into our churches. His great power lay in that winning manner in addressing the ungodly, in his marvelous power in prayer, and his burning earnestness and simplicity in public exhortation. He loved souls, and could therefore win them. He was much upon his knees, and therefore seemed above all others to prevail in prayer, while his public exhortation seemed set on file of the Holy Ghost. His last, and in some respects his grandest, work was at the First Alfred Church, where he gathered in a great harvest of souls, and developed the activities of the Church in so many ways. He gently passed into the other life Feb. 17, 1883. They Came to Milton http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jonsaunders