Charity Coates, wife of Phineas Runyon, lived to be 82 years old and spent the last thirteen years of her life living as a Shaker after signing the church covenant in 1814. Prior to their arrival, she and Phineas had been married for 53 years and moved from New Jersey to North Carolina, then to Kentucky. She gave birth to fourteen children during her marriage. Of her children who lived into adulthood, four - with their own families - also chose a life among the Shakers.
Her passing was recorded in the Shaker journals with no elaboration: Charity Runyon died at Pleasant Hill
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