Margaret E. Cooksey by J. D. Rice

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 27, 1882

Margaret E. Cooksey

By J. D. Rice

Cooksey.—Died of pneumonia, at Arbuckle, Cal., Thursday, April 6, 1882, Sr. Margaret E. Cooksey, aged 61 years, 11 months, and 3 days.

Sr. Cooksey early united with the Christian Church, in which she endeavored to live a consistent Christian life. Three years ago when the present truth was first preached in Colusa county, she was among the first to embrace it, and enter into solemn covenant to keep "all the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus." When the church was fully organized, a little more than one year ago, she at once entered the organization. She has been a faithful attendant at meeting and Sabbath-school, and has done what she could to sustain the cause of God.

She will be greatly missed by the church and school at Arbuckle. We mourn her loss, but sorrow not as others who have not the "blessed hope." For we believe the Lifegiver will soon return to awake those who sleep in Jesus, and take them to those mansions prepared above for the saints of God, and that our sister will be with them. A few remarks were made at the grave by the writer, to a large company of friends who followed to the place of burial. J. D. Rice.