May 17, 1808-Feb. 26, 1880
Niles Republican, Thursday, March 4, 1880, page 3, col 5, microfilm Niles District Library
DIED
In this city, February 26th, 1880, of typhoid pneumonia, Fanny T. Aiken, wife of Chester Rollo.Mrs. Rollo was born in Antrim, N.H., May 17th 1808. Removed with her parents in early childhood to Cayuga Co., New York, where she grew to womanhood surrounded by all the genial influences of a Christian household. In 1836, in the flush and vigor of her days, she emigrated to Michigan with her husband, making the long journey in their own conveyance, and settling in Ypsilanti, where she spent her happiest and most active years. Possessed of good musical abilities, well cultivated, there are many still living who will remember her face and voice in the church choir. That she might be near a dear daughter, since deceased, she came twenty-two years ago to Niles, where, although somewhat past her prime, she made many friends by her bright, sunshiny presence. Her religion was without ostentation, and the practical kind that showed itself in the cheerful bearing of all burdens laid upon her, sustained by an abiding faith in a higher power. No cloud was so dark but she could find a silver lining. With mental faculties wholly unimpaired, and physical powers scarcely touched by time, devoted to an aged and invalid husband; to earthly vision her death seems premature, and yet,--"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" Without dying testimony, which she was unable to give, her friends are well assured that with her "It is well." Many precious memories of a true, pure life are the comfort of the sorrowing ones who mourn that the cheery voice is forever hushed in mortal ears.
Ypsilant papers please copy.