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Note: Obituary: Another pioneer gone! One of the early seetlers in this region, Mrs. Maria Brokaw, relict of the late Isaac J. Brokaw, of this town, died on Thursday last, 5th inst., in the 82d year of her age. Mr. B. came here with his wife and five children, from New Jersey, about fifty-two years ago, settling upon the farm now owned and occupied by Wm. Kinne, on the town-line between Ovid and Romulus, three-fourths of a mile east of the village, where he remained five years. He then moved to Riga, Monroe county, where he remained seven years, when he again returned to this town, purchasing a farm about two and a half miles southeast of this village where he died in 1857, and where she has since resided to the day of her death - some forty years. Mrs. Brokaw was a remarkable woman, of a type, alas, which is fast passing away - would there were more of them. She was among the very best of women as wife, mother, neighbor, friend, and her memory will be fondly cherished by all. "She being dead, yet speaketh." The lessons she taught, the sentiments she uttered, the example she set, the acts of kindness she performed will long be remembered by those who knew her. She was the mother of nine children (four sons and five daughters), six of whom survive her - Catherine, wife of Chas. Pinkerton, of Varick; Peter V., her oldest son, of this town; Mary Jane, wife of John M. Wilson, of this town; Gertrude S., wife of Alanson D. Seeley, of this village; John C. and J. Newton, her two youngest sons, the latter of whom resided with her on the homestead and the other near them. She was a very active and remarkably healthy woman, choosing to eat at her own table, and doing her own work to the last. Her illness was of short duration - only some eleven days. It was seemingly a going out of life, peacefully and calmly ( as a candle flickers and dies in its socket), after a long series of years of usefulness, in full possession of her faculties, until within a day or two of its close. I will not attempt to delineate her character. That is best known to those who knew her best. The large attendance at her funeral on Sunday gave positive evidence of her worth and the esteem in which she was held by the community where she had so long resided - something over forty-five years. Her relatives or descendants to the fourth generation were present on the occasion of her burial.
(Pencilled in: March 5 1874)
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