Fraley.] 160 fOct. 19, 
He lost his membership in that Society by his marriage 
with a lady who was not a member, and while he 
always remained on terms of great intimacy and 
friendship with his old friends of the good Quaker 
faith, his mind was awakened to religious principles of 
a more definite and outwardly expressed form, and he 
became by baptism and confirmation a full member of 
the Episcopal Church. In this membership, as in every- 
thing else he did, he was ardent, consistent and useful, 
freely giving of his labor and substance in aid of 
Church-work, and by personal example giving force 
and beauty to his Christian life. In his family he was 
the affectionate and dearly loved son and brother, the 
kind, indulgent and devoted husband and _ father, 
entwined around every heart with the strongest bonds. 
He was a man of great moral and physical courage, 
never fearing to call a fault or a crime by its right 
name, and never hesitating by personal interposition 
to endeavor to check or subdue a wrong doer whom 
he found engaged in work threatening the peace or se- 
curity of private citizens or of the public. Sustained by 
these well-balanced virtues, and by his sincere religious 
principles, and his thorough trust in the goodness and 
wisdom of God, he went through a life of nearly seventy 
years, always cheerful, happy and useful, and looking 
forward to the close with faith and hope quite equal to 
those of the patriarchs of old. 
In his early manhood he had two very severe at- 
tacks of illness, both of which brought him to the verge 
