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" There are now living, and there have been in the past, many of the
female descendants of ' good Old John Ogden ' who have inherited in a
marked degree his sturdy virtues. Conspicuous among these was Sarah
Piatt [171] Haines, who in Thomas C. Doremus found a worthy husband,
happy to cooperate with her in her good works. To those who knew
Mrs. Doremus only in later life it seemed almost incredible that a fragile
woman, suffering from delicate health and the infirmities of age, could not
only conceive, but personally execute, works of charity of a magnitude to
tax even the powers of a strong man ; but the Master whose work she was
on gave her the strength to accomplish her labors for the benefit of suffering
mankind. One of the founders and President of the Mission at Grand
Ligne in Canada ;
one
of the founders and Vice-President of ' The
Nur-
sery and Child's Hospital' (one of the most benevolent and useful institu-
one of the founders and President of the
Board of Lady Supervisors of the New York State Woman's Hospital
tions in the city of New York) ;
President of the ' Woman's Missionary Society ;' First Directress of the
' Women's Prison Association and Home for Discharged Convicts ;' a
Manager of the 'New York House and School of Industry'—in these
and other fields of labor she spent a life made beautiful by charity. Of
her warm and generous heart, of her private virtues, this is not the place to
speak ; they are enshrined in the hearts of her children, and of hundreds
who have cause to bless her memory.
" A beautiful mural tablet has been erected to her in the South
Reformed Church, Fifth Avenue, New York, which is the only tablet
which has ever been erected to a lady by any church of this denomination.
It reads
:
" ' Well
'"In
Memory of
Sarah Piatt, wife of Thomas C. Doremus,
who peacefully " fell asleep in Jesus "
January 2gth, 1877
Aged 74
" 'She united with this church September nth, 1823
reported of for good works, she hath brought up chil-
dren, she hath lodged strangers, she hath washed the saints' feet, she
hath relieved the afflicted, she hath diligently followed every good
work— i. Tim., 5 : 10. "
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