Obituary: Chapin, Nancy Kelly

Steuben-Republican  3 March 1860  P. 2 Clm. 7

        In Orland, on the morning of the 16th ult., Nancy Kelly, wife of 
Josiah Chapin; aged 79 years 10 months and 20 days. Mrs. Chapin was born 
in Dummerston, Windham County, Vermont, March 27th 1780. Removed at an 
early age to Wardsboro in the same county, where she married and in the 
Spring of 1836, emigrated with her children to Orland, where she resided 
until her decease.  She was a firm believer in the Christian Religion 
and her life was marked by its morality and Christian spirit, while her 
rare social qualities made her a favorite of both old and young.  One of  
the oldest persons in the county, and a pioneer in its settlement, she 
has followed in the grave, one by one, all her children, and leaved her 
husband with whom she has shared the joys and sorrows of life, for more 
than fifty-six years, and a large circle of relatives and friends to 
morn her loss.