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MRS. HARRIET ROW.
Before her marriage and at about the age of eighteen years she united with the Methodist Episcopal Church (in Connecticut), and maintained such connection uninterruptedly until her death. In the month of June, 1832, the first religious society in Sharon, Washtenaw county, was organized, at the log house of her husband, by Rev. E. H. Pilcher of the M. E. Church. At the first organization there were nine members, of which she was one. Mrs. Row's connection with this church extends, therefore, over a period of fifty-seven years. She clung with unwavering faith to her early religious teachings, accepting the Bible as the Word of God and the Lord Jesus Christ as her blessed Savior.
At the time of her death, which occurred at Lansing, February 28, 1885, she was almost seventy-five years of age, and was in full possession of her mental faculties. About three years ago she suffered a stroke of paralysis, from which she did not fully recover, but maintained to the last her remarkably erect form and clear, penetrating voice. Her death was painless and peaceful.
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