Thankful (Lakin) Turner was the daughter of Jonas and Prudence (Parks) Lakin. She was the wife of Rev. David B. Turner. They were married May 6, 1839. Rev. Turner was a minister in the New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He entered the conference in 1835 - 37 years in ministry. Rev. Turner died January 31, 1872.
Obituary
Unidentified Newsclipping - 1897
TURNER,--Thankful Lakin, widow of Rev. David B. Turner, of New York Conference, died at the home of her son-in-law, the Rev. David Hanaburgh, in Katonah, New York, March 28, 1897. She was born September 19, 1816, and born again in 1830, in a great revival under the labors of Alexander Calder and John Foster. Her sister and two brothers were converted and joined the Church about the same time. Arad S., one of the brothers, became a member of New York Conference, and an heroic Presiding Elder in the reconstruction days in the South, and his sister Thankful was not less heroic than her fearless brother. The Lakins had a strong ancestry in every quality that goes to make the best man and womanhood. Her mother lived to the great age of one hundred and eight. Thankful was married May 6, 1839, and was with her husband in the itinerant ministry until his death in 1872. Her manners were agreeable, her spirit kindly, her courage unwavering. There was nothing uncertain about her religious experience. She did not have to make an argument to establish her claim to her relation to Jesus. She knew, and left no uncertainty about her destiny. In every relation she adorned "the doctrine of God and Saviour." She leaves a son, a daughter, and several grandchildren. Forty-nine years ago this good woman received the writer in the old parsonage at Poughquag, New York, as junior preacher under her husband on Dutchess Circuit, and forty years ago he promised to attend her funeral, if he survived her, and also to write her obituary. The former of these promises he fulfilled on March 30 at Katonah, New York, assisted by the Revs. George Clark and S G. Keyser. She was buried by the side of her husband in Washingtonville, New York.
Written by Rev. Benjamin M. Adams
Obituary
Unidentified Newsclipping - 1897
TURNER,--Thankful Lakin, widow of Rev. David B. Turner, of New York Conference, died at the home of her son-in-law, the Rev. David Hanaburgh, in Katonah, New York, March 28, 1897. She was born September 19, 1816, and born again in 1830, in a great revival under the labors of Alexander Calder and John Foster. Her sister and two brothers were converted and joined the Church about the same time. Arad S., one of the brothers, became a member of New York Conference, and an heroic Presiding Elder in the reconstruction days in the South, and his sister Thankful was not less heroic than her fearless brother. The Lakins had a strong ancestry in every quality that goes to make the best man and womanhood. Her mother lived to the great age of one hundred and eight. Thankful was married May 6, 1839, and was with her husband in the itinerant ministry until his death in 1872. Her manners were agreeable, her spirit kindly, her courage unwavering. There was nothing uncertain about her religious experience. She did not have to make an argument to establish her claim to her relation to Jesus. She knew, and left no uncertainty about her destiny. In every relation she adorned "the doctrine of God and Saviour." She leaves a son, a daughter, and several grandchildren. Forty-nine years ago this good woman received the writer in the old parsonage at Poughquag, New York, as junior preacher under her husband on Dutchess Circuit, and forty years ago he promised to attend her funeral, if he survived her, and also to write her obituary. The former of these promises he fulfilled on March 30 at Katonah, New York, assisted by the Revs. George Clark and S G. Keyser. She was buried by the side of her husband in Washingtonville, New York.
Written by Rev. Benjamin M. Adams
Thankful (Lakin) Turner was the daughter of Jonas and Prudence (Parks) Lakin. She was the wife of Rev. David B. Turner. They were married May 6, 1839. Rev. Turner was a minister in the New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He entered the conference in 1835 - 37 years in ministry. Rev. Turner died January 31, 1872.
Obituary
Unidentified Newsclipping - 1897
TURNER,--Thankful Lakin, widow of Rev. David B. Turner, of New York Conference, died at the home of her son-in-law, the Rev. David Hanaburgh, in Katonah, New York, March 28, 1897. She was born September 19, 1816, and born again in 1830, in a great revival under the labors of Alexander Calder and John Foster. Her sister and two brothers were converted and joined the Church about the same time. Arad S., one of the brothers, became a member of New York Conference, and an heroic Presiding Elder in the reconstruction days in the South, and his sister Thankful was not less heroic than her fearless brother. The Lakins had a strong ancestry in every quality that goes to make the best man and womanhood. Her mother lived to the great age of one hundred and eight. Thankful was married May 6, 1839, and was with her husband in the itinerant ministry until his death in 1872. Her manners were agreeable, her spirit kindly, her courage unwavering. There was nothing uncertain about her religious experience. She did not have to make an argument to establish her claim to her relation to Jesus. She knew, and left no uncertainty about her destiny. In every relation she adorned "the doctrine of God and Saviour." She leaves a son, a daughter, and several grandchildren. Forty-nine years ago this good woman received the writer in the old parsonage at Poughquag, New York, as junior preacher under her husband on Dutchess Circuit, and forty years ago he promised to attend her funeral, if he survived her, and also to write her obituary. The former of these promises he fulfilled on March 30 at Katonah, New York, assisted by the Revs. George Clark and S G. Keyser. She was buried by the side of her husband in Washingtonville, New York.
Written by Rev. Benjamin M. Adams
Obituary
Unidentified Newsclipping - 1897
TURNER,--Thankful Lakin, widow of Rev. David B. Turner, of New York Conference, died at the home of her son-in-law, the Rev. David Hanaburgh, in Katonah, New York, March 28, 1897. She was born September 19, 1816, and born again in 1830, in a great revival under the labors of Alexander Calder and John Foster. Her sister and two brothers were converted and joined the Church about the same time. Arad S., one of the brothers, became a member of New York Conference, and an heroic Presiding Elder in the reconstruction days in the South, and his sister Thankful was not less heroic than her fearless brother. The Lakins had a strong ancestry in every quality that goes to make the best man and womanhood. Her mother lived to the great age of one hundred and eight. Thankful was married May 6, 1839, and was with her husband in the itinerant ministry until his death in 1872. Her manners were agreeable, her spirit kindly, her courage unwavering. There was nothing uncertain about her religious experience. She did not have to make an argument to establish her claim to her relation to Jesus. She knew, and left no uncertainty about her destiny. In every relation she adorned "the doctrine of God and Saviour." She leaves a son, a daughter, and several grandchildren. Forty-nine years ago this good woman received the writer in the old parsonage at Poughquag, New York, as junior preacher under her husband on Dutchess Circuit, and forty years ago he promised to attend her funeral, if he survived her, and also to write her obituary. The former of these promises he fulfilled on March 30 at Katonah, New York, assisted by the Revs. George Clark and S G. Keyser. She was buried by the side of her husband in Washingtonville, New York.
Written by Rev. Benjamin M. Adams
Inscription
"Thankful Lakin
his wife
born Sept 19, 1816
died March 27, 1897"
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With of Rev. David B. Turner
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