"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 37, No 9, p 8, Mar. 3, 1881.
In Brookfield, N. Y., Feb. 15, 1881, of organic disease of the heart, Leander Babcock, aged 68 years and 1 day. Brother Babcock made profession of religion in 1837, and was baptized into the fellowship of the Second Seventh-day Baptist Church on the 9th of December of that year. He lived and enjoyed the hope of the gospel, and that same gospel hope and faith sustained him in his sickness and death. For him "to die was gain."
Funeral services were held on the 17th, at the family residence, conducted by the pastor, and the lifeless form, now free from pain, was laid to rest in the mother earth, to await the resurrection of the just. Bro. Babcock's family consists of his wife and five children, all of whom, with one exception (Mrs. Jacob Williams, of Harvard, Neb.) were present at the funeral. The day was a very stormy one, but large numbers of neighbors and friends were present to sympathize with the stricken family in their bereavement. "The memory of the just is blessed." J. M. T.

Census: 1880 Brookfield, Madison Co., New York: age 67, farmer

"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 52, No 1, p 15, Jan. 6, 1896.
At the home of her son, H. A. Babcock, in Brookfield, N. Y., Nov. 23, 1895, of paralysis, Roxanna Williams Babcock, in the 77th year of her age.
Roxanna W. Babcock was born in the town of Palermo, N. Y., May 3, 1819. In early years she removed to Brookfield, in which place, and Watson, N. Y., her life was spent. Sept. 7, 1842, she was married to Leander Babcock, with whom she lived a faithful wife nearly forty years, he having passed from this life in 1881.
Not many years after her marriage, the family removed to Watson. Here, under the ministrations of Joshua Clarke, she accepted Christ and was baptized, uniting with the Watson Seventh-day Baptist Church. Having again removed to Brookfield, she united with the Second Brookfield Church by letter in the year 1864, since which time she has continued a faithful member until her death.
She was a woman of humble faith, irreproachable in character and beloved of family and acquaintance. Of the family there live to mourn her, her son, Harvey A. Babcock, her daughters, Mrs. J. L. Clarke and Mrs. R. G. Clarke of Brookfield, N. Y., Mrs. Jacob Williams, of North Loup, Neb., and Mrs. A. E. Curtis, of Leonardsville, N. Y.

Census: 1880 Brookfield, Madison Co., New York: age 61