Biography

In Auburn, December 17, Mrs. LUCY STANDART, wife of Mr. Geo. Standart, at the advanced age of 81 years and 10 months. I have thought it due to the memory of Mrs. S. and believe it will be pleasing to the community in which she so long resided, to have some further notice taken of her departure.
Mrs. Standart was born in Roxbury, Mass. At the age of eighteen she was married to the companion who, at so late a period in life, has been called to mourn her death.
About 1793 ill health compelled Mr. S. to abandon the mechanical business in which he had been employed, and to betake himself to some more active and out-of-door employment. He selected that of agriculture, and removed his family to the town of New Hartford, Oneida Co., where they resided about 25 years. From the latter place they removed to Auburn in 1821. Mrs. S. was, therefore, one of the oldest residents in our city. In fact at the time of her decease there was no other couple in town—it may be doubted whether there was another in the county—which had lived together as long as herself and husband. They were married in Jan. 1790 and lived in uninterrupted harmony together for 63½ years. Mrs. S. was the mother of eleven children, four of who preceded her into the spirit world. Of descendants, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, she has seen some 80, while of these there are now living of the first generation, 7; of the second, 39; and of the third some 13 or 14, making in all nearly or quite sixty.
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May her aged companion, her numerous children, her venerable sisters and all who have been afflicted by her departure, be so sustained and consoled by that religion which solaced her last hours, that they may be able to say, "The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord." W. R. G. M. [Rev. Mellen]

Christian Ambassador, Auburn NY, Sat. 7 Jan 1854 [A Universalist newspaper]