Agnes Hammond Waite, eldest daughter of Rev. and Mrs. R. J. Hammond, was born April 10 1844, at Albany, N.Y. Two years later her parents moved to Burgettstown, Pa. and there her girlhood days were spent.
At an early age she united with the church of which her father was pastor. Rev. Hammond having taken up the work at Washington, Ia. She came with the family to that place where she resided until 1883 when she left her home to begin work among the freedmen. She was thus identified with the mission work of the United Presbyterian Church in the south from its very beginning. Memphis, Natchez, Vicksburg and Nashville were each scenes of her labors.
In 1870 she was married to the Rev. John Wait. Mr. Waite's health failing a few years after their marriage they came to Americus in the hope that a change of climate might prove beneficial. But it was otherwise ordered and after a lingering illness his earthly labors came to a close in 1878.
Americus continued to be Mrs. Waite's home for four years after her husband's death when she again took up work among the freedmen. She was made principal of the Training School of Knoxville College which position she filled until she was laid aside by a paralytic stroke in 1897.
The last four years of her life were years of weakness and suffering, but sustained by the grace which never fails she patiently endured until she fell asleep in Jesus. Her remains were brought north to be held in their last resting place beside those of her husband. She leaves a son and daughter, and aged mother, a sister, two brothers and a host of friends and acquaintances to mourn her loss and cherish her memory.
-Emporia Gazette, Emporia, Lyon County, Kansas, Thursday Evening, December 12, 1912, Page – 4 Column – 2
At an early age she united with the church of which her father was pastor. Rev. Hammond having taken up the work at Washington, Ia. She came with the family to that place where she resided until 1883 when she left her home to begin work among the freedmen. She was thus identified with the mission work of the United Presbyterian Church in the south from its very beginning. Memphis, Natchez, Vicksburg and Nashville were each scenes of her labors.
In 1870 she was married to the Rev. John Wait. Mr. Waite's health failing a few years after their marriage they came to Americus in the hope that a change of climate might prove beneficial. But it was otherwise ordered and after a lingering illness his earthly labors came to a close in 1878.
Americus continued to be Mrs. Waite's home for four years after her husband's death when she again took up work among the freedmen. She was made principal of the Training School of Knoxville College which position she filled until she was laid aside by a paralytic stroke in 1897.
The last four years of her life were years of weakness and suffering, but sustained by the grace which never fails she patiently endured until she fell asleep in Jesus. Her remains were brought north to be held in their last resting place beside those of her husband. She leaves a son and daughter, and aged mother, a sister, two brothers and a host of friends and acquaintances to mourn her loss and cherish her memory.
-Emporia Gazette, Emporia, Lyon County, Kansas, Thursday Evening, December 12, 1912, Page – 4 Column – 2
Agnes Hammond Waite, eldest daughter of Rev. and Mrs. R. J. Hammond, was born April 10 1844, at Albany, N.Y. Two years later her parents moved to Burgettstown, Pa. and there her girlhood days were spent.
At an early age she united with the church of which her father was pastor. Rev. Hammond having taken up the work at Washington, Ia. She came with the family to that place where she resided until 1883 when she left her home to begin work among the freedmen. She was thus identified with the mission work of the United Presbyterian Church in the south from its very beginning. Memphis, Natchez, Vicksburg and Nashville were each scenes of her labors.
In 1870 she was married to the Rev. John Wait. Mr. Waite's health failing a few years after their marriage they came to Americus in the hope that a change of climate might prove beneficial. But it was otherwise ordered and after a lingering illness his earthly labors came to a close in 1878.
Americus continued to be Mrs. Waite's home for four years after her husband's death when she again took up work among the freedmen. She was made principal of the Training School of Knoxville College which position she filled until she was laid aside by a paralytic stroke in 1897.
The last four years of her life were years of weakness and suffering, but sustained by the grace which never fails she patiently endured until she fell asleep in Jesus. Her remains were brought north to be held in their last resting place beside those of her husband. She leaves a son and daughter, and aged mother, a sister, two brothers and a host of friends and acquaintances to mourn her loss and cherish her memory.
-Emporia Gazette, Emporia, Lyon County, Kansas, Thursday Evening, December 12, 1912, Page – 4 Column – 2
At an early age she united with the church of which her father was pastor. Rev. Hammond having taken up the work at Washington, Ia. She came with the family to that place where she resided until 1883 when she left her home to begin work among the freedmen. She was thus identified with the mission work of the United Presbyterian Church in the south from its very beginning. Memphis, Natchez, Vicksburg and Nashville were each scenes of her labors.
In 1870 she was married to the Rev. John Wait. Mr. Waite's health failing a few years after their marriage they came to Americus in the hope that a change of climate might prove beneficial. But it was otherwise ordered and after a lingering illness his earthly labors came to a close in 1878.
Americus continued to be Mrs. Waite's home for four years after her husband's death when she again took up work among the freedmen. She was made principal of the Training School of Knoxville College which position she filled until she was laid aside by a paralytic stroke in 1897.
The last four years of her life were years of weakness and suffering, but sustained by the grace which never fails she patiently endured until she fell asleep in Jesus. Her remains were brought north to be held in their last resting place beside those of her husband. She leaves a son and daughter, and aged mother, a sister, two brothers and a host of friends and acquaintances to mourn her loss and cherish her memory.
-Emporia Gazette, Emporia, Lyon County, Kansas, Thursday Evening, December 12, 1912, Page – 4 Column – 2
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