Children of William and Rachel Wigham

Lately, at Little Broughton, near Cockermouth, in the 61st year of her age, after a very short, but violent illness, Mrs Hannah Hall, wife of Mr John Hall of that place; by her death, society (both civil and religious) is deprived of one of its brightest ornaments; her husband, of a most valuable and affectionate wife; and her numerous family of the ever watchful and fostering hand of maternal solicitude.

HANNAH HALL.—It often happens, and it is cause of reverent thankfulness that it is so, that tedious sickness is allowed to be the means of refinement and preparation for the great change. Happy also is it for such as have "their loins girded, and their lamps burning," and are ready at a short notice to meet the bridegroom. This seems to have been the case of HANNAH HALL, of Little Broughton, near Cockermouth, in Cumberland.

She was the daughter of William and Rachel Wigham, of Cornwood, in Northumberland, and was born in the year 1747. A few years after her marriage with John Hall, of Broughton, and about the twenty-seventh year of her age, she came forth in a public testimony in meetings, and her services were acceptable to Friends.

She did not travel much, but had a large family to watch over, which she brought up in an exemplary manner, and was herself a pattern of economy and industry. Nevertheless, in 1788, she visited meetings in Lancashire and Cheshire, in company with her mother, a valuable minister; and about ten years afterwards, paid a religious visit, in company with some other Friends, to the inhabitants of the Isle of Man. In this visit her short and lively offerings seemed to open the way to larger communications of her companions. In 1801, she visited the meetings in Scotland; and afterward the families in the greatest part of her own monthly meeting of Pardshaw: where she was herself a diligent attender of meetings, and esteemed as a woman of a meek and quiet spirit.

She often proclaimed the uncertainty of life, and was strenuous in exhorting all to make timely preparation for their solemn and final change; and in both these respects was herself an example, for she was removed, at about the age of sixty, by a violent disorder, in twenty-four hours. She expressed an unshaken confidence that a place of rest would be her allotment, when the pains and conflicts of time should pass away. Her decease was on the 29th of the Fourth month, 1807, and her last moments, so far as an indistinct articulation could be understood, were employed in solemn supplication.

THOMAS WIGHAM, of Allendale Monthly Meeting, a Minister about 20 years .......................... 59         2 Mo. 1812.

After a painful and lingering illness, towards his close he seemed as if sweetly singing praises and making melody in his heart to the Lord; and, in this situation, he quietly breathed his last.

CUTHBERT WIGHAM, Cornwood, Northum.          69           17 5mo. 1828.

He was of an innocent deportment, and exemplary in his conduct; and was favoured to bear a long and afflicting illness with becoming patience and resignation; at time expressing a belief, that by the mercy of God, through Jesus Christ, his sins were forgiven. This he said, had been a great support and consolation to him during his illness, and that he had often been led to contemplate its termination with satisfaction; feeling an assurance that it would be to him a release from all pain and trouble.