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1819. January 9, in her 70th year, Eliza...
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— OBITUARY .
1819. January 9, In Her 70th Year, Eliza...
1819 . January 9 , in her 70 th year , Elizabeth , wife of the Rev . John Yates , of Toocteth Park , near Liverpool . This valuable lady was the youngest daughter of John Ash ton , Esq ., an enterprising and successful Liverpool merchant . Her
mother , whose maiden name was Brooks , and whose family were distinguished among the Presbyterian Dissenters of that town by their abilities , integrity and public spirit , was a woman so exemplary and judicious in all her conduct , that to her maternal influence and instructions we
may in no small degree ascribe the moral worth of the subject of the present memoir , especially since her husband , Mr . Ash ton , died at a comparatively early age . In the year 1771 , Mrs . Yates married the late Dr . Bostock , a physician of a cultivated mind , whose rising reputation was
cut short by a premature death in his 30 th year , and who left to her care an infant son , the present Dr . Bostock . Five years after this ev ^ nt , she married the Rev . John Yates , who had recently settled in Liverpool as the minister of the Presbyterian congregation assembling in Kay-street , and afterwards removed to Paradise-street .
With him she passed nearly forty years of growing usefulness , harmony and happiness , and had by him a family of five sons and three daughters , all of whom , except the eldest daughter , survive- Mrs . Yates ' s mind was characterized by sound judgment and well * regulated sensibility . As a wife and a mother she was dutiful , affectionate and assiduous . She conducted
almost without any assistance the earliest part of her children ' s education , and , in repressing infantile passion , correcting negligence or obstinacy , and educing the latent talents of the understanding and
feelings of the heart , she united with sufficient decision that ingenuity and felicity of management , in which good mothers so pre-eminently excel . Her uniform cheerfulness of temper , the presence of mind which she evinced in cases of
imminent danger to herself or others , and the patience and fortitude with which she bore occasional sufferings , may be traced not only to the strength , activity and correctness of her understanding , but still more to her firm , humble and practical conviction of the all-wise and all-merciful
su perintendence of the One True God . Sensible of the various blessings she enjoyed through the course of a long , prosperous and honourable life , she received them with thankfulness , was resigned when any of them were removed , and still thankful for what remained . Her charities to tho
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poor were no less judicious than liberal . She bestowed her time and attention as well as her money , so as to apply what she gave with the best effect to deserving objects . In all the consolations , the duties , and the hopes of the Christian life , she was accustomed to confirm herself by the daily perusal of the sacred page . AU
tbough , during- the greater part of her life ,, she was unable to hear the public services of religion , she never failed to be present in the place where the u Divine honour dwelleth f and to all , who saw her in the social circle , it must have been equally remarkable , how entirely the
partial loss of that most important sense , appeared to be compensated by her quickness of apprehension , her equanimity , and the kindness and civility of her manners * She had the satisfaction of attending public worship " on the Sabbath immediately preceding her death ; and it is a subject of gratitude to her family , that , even to the
very last day of her life , and without any fear of the awful termination of her illness , she partook in some degree of her ordi * nary recreations and employments . Her death was the most easy and tranquil , like the going 1 out of a flauie , when the oil , which feeds it , is exhausted . Her remains were borne to the small and
beautifully-situated cemetery attached to the Park Chapel , almost in front of her house , and were attended by her widowed husband , who was followed by her only brother , Nicholas Asliton , Esq ., of Wooltonball , and her eldest son f Dr . Bostoek , of London , to whom succeeded her fire younger sons , each of them supporting a
wife or a sister . The following * Lord ' sday , January 17 th , the congregation , who kindly testified their regard by appearing "in mourning , were addressed upon the consolations of religion by their minister , the Rev . Pendlebury Houghton , who assisted them to improve the affecting- occasion , by illustrating the support derived to
the mourner from just views of the Providence of God , from the Christian hope of a better life to come , and from the active discharge of all remaining duties ; and while with a touch delicate and beautiful as well as vigorous , he described these
general sentiments , he seemed to intend more particularly to point out to the esteem and imitation of his flock the strong consolations , which , under the greatest of earthly privations , support the friend of his youth and the assiduous partner of bis pastoral cares . j
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 22, 1819, page 119, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_22021819/page/51/
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