MRS. ELEANOR ROBYNS OWENS, UTICA, ONEIDA COUNTY, NEW YORK.

Mrs. Eleanor Robyns Owen died at her home, 42 Main Street, Utica, December 16th, 1893, aged 90 years and 8 months, and was interred the following Tuesday at Car's Cemetery, Marcy. Her death was -

"Like ripe fruit drop into our mother's lap
Or be with ease gathered, not harshly plucked."

Mrs. Owens was born near Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire, N.W., in the year 1803 - two years before the Battle of Trafalgar, where England won a glorious victory over the French, but lost her galant Nelson. She was the daughter of John and Magdalina Robins Owen.

Having spent the years of her girlhood among her native hills she caught the "fever" of the times, and emigrated to America (1831). In 1832 she settled at Marcy, Utica, N.Y., and was married to Robert Owens. Mr. Owens, who was populary known as "Deacon Owens of Marcy," died in 1850. He was a good man, a dutiful husband, a loving father, and an active Christian worker. Sixteen years after his death his widow and children removed to Utica, where four of the later still reside.

Mrs. Owens is survived by six children - Robert J. of Richfield, Otsego Co., David J., Magdalina, Katie and Jennie E., of Utica; seventeen grandchildren and many nieces and nephews also survive her.